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Anti-Flag have addressed the circumstances of their sudden breakup last week in a pair of statements. The punk band’s frontman, Justin Sane, whose real name is Justin Geever, acknowledges a claim that he sexually assaulted a woman, which he denies. A separate statement from his three bandmates explains that the allegations meant “the only immediate option was to disband.” Read the statements in full below.
Last week, Anti-Flag fans and some publications linked their breakup announcement to a podcast episode in which a woman alleges she was sexually assaulted by a political punk band’s frontman. Although there is no concrete evidence that she was referring to Geever, details of the story prompted posters in the Anti-Flag subreddit to implicate Justin Sane as a possible accused party.
In his statement, shared with Pitchfork and later on Instagram, Justin Sane wrote:
Pat Thetic, Chris “#2” Barker, and Chris Head wrote: