On June 2, former Stanford swimmer Brock Allen Turner was sentenced to six months in prison and three years of probation, a lenient punishment because the judge believed anything longer would have “a severe impact on him.” Brooklyn’s Northside Festival has dropped the Ohio band Good English from its lineup, after learning that their drummer/vocalist Leslie Rasmussen (pictured above lying down) wrote a letter supporting Turner, Yahoo reports. Shows previously listed for June 9 and 10 at Brooklyn’s Bar Matchless (which were part of Northside) have been removed from their official website’s tour page, along with a June 11 date at Industry City Distillery. Good English have deactivated their Facebook account. In a tweet, the festival confirmed that the band was no longer playing its shows “due to recent information bought to our attention.” Industry City Distillery also confirmed the show’s cancellation, and wrote it had “zero tolerance for the act or the justifying of the act.”
In a letter to the judge obtained by The Cut, Rasmussen wrote that she grew up with Turner and he “was a very close friend of [hers] for a few years in high school.” Throughout the letter, she called Turner a “good kid,” “sweetheart,” and “not a monster.” Later, Rasmussen stated she doesn’t believe that Turner and other campus rapists are rapists because their victims are not “getting kidnapped and raped as she is walking to her car in a parking lot.” Instead, she offered, “These are idiot boys and girls having too much to drink and not being aware of their surroundings and having clouded judgment.” (She also blamed the charges on “being politically correct.”) Read her full letter here.
On the day of Turner’s sentencing, his victim read the court a powerful letter about the assault’s “severe impact” on her. BuzzFeed recently published the letter, which has since attracted attention across the internet. Read it here.
Due to recent information brought to our attention, Good English is no longer playing Northside Festival.
— Northside Festival (@NorthsideFest) June 7, 2016
@charmingfoxes Good English is not playing our show, removed yesterday from lineup, zero tolerance for the act or the justifying of the act
— ICD (@drinkicd) June 7, 2016
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