Cro-Mags release official statement on violent altercation following the Maryland show this week
Earlier in the week D.R.I and Cro-Mags performed in Frederick, MD on Sept 12th and at some point the show ended in a violent altercation. The evening ended in chaos with fans at the show being maced and beaten.
Harley Flanagan claimed that he was stabbed and that he and his sons were assaulted in the melee. Flanagan shared a brief post to Instagram showing images of injuries and shared some insight.
Other claims of unwanted advances and sexual assault were also brought up against Flanagan. You can read all about what transpired that night here.
Today, the Cro-Mags have issued an official statement which reads in full:
Cro-Mags' Harley Flanagan and his 20-year-old son were assaulted before a Cro-Mags show they were playing with DRI at Café 611 in Frederick, MD this past Tuesday night, Sept. 12th. A small local "zine" had written to the band prior to the show asking to interview them. In correspondence, the band declined the interview with an explanation but offered them 3 free passes to the show.
According to witnesses, including the owner of the venue and DRI, the group came in and set up a table to sell their magazine. Prior to the show, in a room filled with people, including small children, and Harley's son, a man and woman from the magazine approached the Cro-Mags merch table next to theirs and started talking. She shared that she was the model on the back cover. Flanagan, in front of his son said, "looks cool, I will pick one up after the show" and walked away. It was not long before the woman started yelling that Flanagan had harassed her, at which point his son came to the other side of the merch table with one of the other people from the magazine who started yelling that Flanagan had assaulted his girlfriend.
As Harley's son and the man got physical, the man pulled out a can of Mace and sprayed both Flanagan and son directly in their faces. And proceeded to spray the room of patrons with Mace.
The club owner witnessed all of this. Flanagan Jr and the magazine guy soon hit the ground fighting and the rest of their crew, including the girl got involved.
When Flanagan came over, the girl jumped on his back and began hitting him with a billy club. He was at that time slashed with a knife, through his pants. The girl was physically removed from Flanagan's back by a retired Police Officer, there with his son (who is cooperating with local police).
The club owner came to the melee, police showed up and the magazine group was removed from the premises. Flanagan played the show with a flesh wound and the remnants of mace in his eyes and nose.
Several witnesses have come forward, all cooperating with police, most notably the club owner, the retired police officer and the band DRI.
The band has since received numerous death threats as the magazine has been spreading their story on social media which began with harassment and has now become assault.
Local business owners have since come forward with similar experiences involving the couple from the magazine and are currently cooperating with authorities during the investigation. The FBI may become involved as threats of violence and death have been received across state lines.
The victims pressed charges the morning after the event and the assault is currently being investigated by the Frederick, MD Police Department.
Harley wishes to state emphatically, "the idea of assaulting a woman is reprehensible to me and it didn't happen and it wouldn't happen."
Any further comments will come from Mr. Flanagan's attorney Harley Breite, Esq. of Wayne, NJ.
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Post CommentI did not hit her, it's not true! It's bullshit! I did not hit her! I did not!
Harley has released like 3 dissertations at this point. Guy is full of shit.
Remember when Harley made a YouTube vid where he slowly read the judgment writ in his favor re: Cro-Mags name and then at the end, took off his glasses and posed hard into the lens of the camera with a goofy low-frequency expression for like 10 seconds too long? Shit was hilarious.
Again, someone wanna explain how while you've been doing this 40 years, you're opening for DRI in a rural dive bar??
"The FBI may become involved" lol Come on son
Hardcore is the dumbest "scene" for the dumbest people
My favorite Cro-mags video is the one that starts out in a cemetery and then cuts to him angrily walking the streets of Manhattan searching for Starbucks bathroom to take a shit in. Goodluck dude. Those bathrooms are for the vaccinated only.
LOL @ Harley letting a girl jump on his back. He started this fight no two ways about it because HE has a history of violence. It's typical of him. He's a scumbag. Honestly so what if the zinesters maced him? Good. He's a lowlife scumbag piece of sh it & a phony.
Harley of all people hiding behind lawyers and cops
His wife is an attorney. Why not cover your ass when you are making crumbs playing vfw's
https://www.whoisharley.com His lawyer. Seriously.
The truth will come out. And I don't give a flying f*ck.
I was there, he did it. I saw it with my own f*cking eyes. I'm one of few people that witnessed THE ENTIRE THING in real time (I also was the one that got security). He's a f*cking a sexual predator, a brainless Mad Maxian street thug and a barbaric sociopath with a micro-penis Napoleon complex. It was appalling and shocking...We've all heard about his schizophrenic behavior for years from everyone including his band mates who f*cking haaaaate his guts. Hadn't seen them since '89 and was hoping that he grew as a man and all the drama was over. I literally hung out with the Destroy zine kids for a few minutes and traded stickers talked about their zine, normal nice f*cking Metal head kids just doing their own thing...Five minutes later Harley and his CM goons are BEATING UP a 100 pound girl and some skinny white kids...f*cking animals...they should be curbed...And very disappointed in Kurt from DRI just standing there like a drooling dipshit and egging it on...what an asshole
Harley is a brain dead, fetal alcohol syndrome psychopath...
I was there, he did it. I saw it with my own f*cking eyes. >>> So what are you doing on here? Have you talked to the authorities? If not STFU, GTFO & do your civic duty: help put this filth in jail.
So what are you doing on here? Have you talked to the authorities? If not STFU, GTFO & do your civic duty: help put this filth in jail. >>> Yep, in progress.
^lol dude with the paragraph is 17. This type of drama always seems to happen in bumf*ck middle of nowhere places where people want some clout for a $25 zine or some followers on Reddit or Instagram. Nothing you are going to say is going to change someone's mind on Harley and the fabricated story is just that.
"Flanagan and son" Is the woman he got in a fight with Aunt Esther?
My dad used to drag me to his dumb shit when I was a kid too. Poor guy.
lol dude with the paragraph is 17. This type of drama always seems to happen in bumf*ck middle of nowhere places where people want some clout for a $25 zine or some followers on Reddit or Instagram. Nothing you are going to say is going to change someone's mind on Harley and the fabricated story is just that. > f*ck "someone's mind" the law will decide. Pretty pathetic of you to cape for Harley. Get a life loser.
Aunt Esther should've had her own show. I loved how she was always ready to throw down with Fred - she was like fu ck that I'm a 60 year old lady 😂
He's done so much bad stuff to people over the years...shocking it's taken this long
Would've been a lot cooler if they had all just wasted each other
Not gonna lie... It was pretty funny to see those ski mask hipster dorks digging through trash for their crappy merch.
When a grade school aged kid shows up to class wearing cro-mags merch on it signals to the teacher that it is grooming time, oops I mean affirming.
Harley can say all he wants but he has no video of what was done to him, Destroy Zine has video of two of his goons manhandling a woman.
His lawyers name is Harley? My son is also named bort
Imagine being 60 and still acting retard3d. This is the future for all hardcore "thug" superstars. Permanent carnies.
Todd Jones here. Harley will never be one of me.
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