Dryden Mitchell faces easy battery following incident at band’s Fort Lauderdale live performance final October
The lead singer of Y2K rockers Alien Ant Farm was charged with battery following an incident at a Florida live performance the place he touched his personal genitals with the outreached hand of a fan.
The Broward State Lawyer’s Workplace charged Dryden Mitchell, frontman for the band greatest identified for his or her nu-metal rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Clean Legal,” with the misdemeanor battery cost on Dec. 30, two months after the incident occurred throughout an Alien Ant Farm live performance at Fort Lauderdale’s Broward Middle for the Performing Arts. The information was first reported by The Every day Mail.
In footage from the live performance — captured on the 2:50-mark of the video under — Mitchell is seen grabbing the hand of a concertgoer standing within the first row through the show-ending efficiency of “Clean Legal.” The handshake turned felony, the accuser says, when Mitchell moved each his and the fan’s hand towards his “genital space,” which he appeared to briefly contact earlier than the fan rapidly recoiled his arm.
Over two weeks after the live performance, the fan, a 45-year-old male from Miami, filed an incident report, obtained by Rolling Stone, with the Fort Lauderdale Police Division.
“The lead singer of the Alien Ant Farm band, Dryden Mitchell, was on the stage in entrance of [victim] acknowledged he had his fist within the air and was making an attempt to get an image with Mitchell. [Victim] suggested that Mitchell grabbed his fist whereas it was within the air, and pulled the fist into his personal space (genital space) in opposition to his pants. [Victim] acknowledged he instantly pulled his hand away at that time.”
The accuser didn’t report the incident till mid-November, two weeks after the Oct. 29 live performance. He “acknowledged the explanation for the delay in making a police report was as a result of the incident was not sitting nicely with him” and “didn’t really feel this was correct conduct to do in entrance of all of the live performance goers and in addition acknowledged there have been youngsters within the crowd as nicely,” the incident report states.
Makes an attempt to succeed in Mitchell weren’t instantly profitable. Whereas Mitchell has been charged with easy battery, he has not but been arrested or booked. When requested by the Every day Mail in regards to the incident, the sufferer mentioned, “‘I do wish to inform my story however I do need to take heed to my civil attorneys. I’ll be very happy to talk later. I do need the story on the market as a result of what occurred was not proper.”