IRON MAIDEN Fan Severely Beaten By Security At Washington Show; BRUCE DICKINSON Addresses Audience - "This Is Not The F@#king Mixed Martial Arts" (Video)
September 6, 2019, 5 years ago
At Iron Maiden's Thursday night (September 5) concert at the Tacoma Dome in Washington, frontman Bruce Dickinson addressed the audience prior to the encore, after witnessing a fan being beaten by security guards.
Dickinson told the audience: "We've got an Iron Maiden fan backstage who's had the shit kicked out of him by 10 security guards. I saw one security guard lean over the barrier and punch a kid half his size in the face four times. There were ten people. Ten people! This is not the fucking mixed martial arts. In mixed martial arts you have a referee, you know. This is not that. We've played to several hundred thousand people so far on this tour. This is the first time anything like this has happened. I don't know if this happens in this building all the time, I don't know if this is an act of fucking madness, and I hope that kid is getting hospital treatment now because he's bleeding from head wounds. I hope that kid takes this building to the fucking cleaners. And if anybody has any footage, camera footage or anything, then we would be pleased to help facilitate it to find the bullies and the fucking criminals who are responsible. It's not necessary, it's not big, it's not clever. It's just called bullying, it's as simple as that. So this is a very appropriate song. It's called 'The Evil That Men Do'."
Watch fan-filmed video below:
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— Nicole (@RHandLMindCole) September 6, 2019
