No place for this…
While Harry Styles performed at the We Can Survive charity concert in California over the weekend, there was an incident which caused outrage for a lot of people.
The aim of the charity was to raise funds for breast cancer, and it certainly did, so in that respect, it was a roaring success for organisers.
But footage has emerged of the moment a fan appears to grab Styles’ crotch while he’s crouched at the front of the stage performing one of his songs. When this happens he promptly removes himself from the front of the stage and continues to perform the song.
Multiple angles of the incident have emerged online over the past 24 hours.
One from Twitter user @kiwisbaby28:
Harry was touched inappropriately during kiwi, absolutely disgusting. #WeCanSurvive pic.twitter.com/kdo6nv1i2m
— JustLikeAna (@kiwisbaby28) October 22, 2017
The other from Twitter user, @wanderessla:
Here’s a slowed down video of the video I took where someone touched Harry inappropriately ? pic.twitter.com/tpQhSdNI7J
— la bruja del 71 (@wanderessla) October 23, 2017
Fans have been calling out the incident, labelling it a sexual assault. Styles himself has yet to respond to the incident.
The incident has prompted the start of a movement called #RespectHarry and huge numbers of people are tweeting their disgust at what happened.
“I don’t like Harry Styles but y’all touching his crotch isn’t ok,” one fan commented.
Another similarly said: “Honestly not a big fan of Harry Styles but you have no right to grab his crotch.”
Public Service Announcement: Celebrities are human beings. Harry Styles is a human being. He is not a sexual object #RespectHarry
— Luke Waltham (@lukewaltham) October 22, 2017
I am absolutely disgusted by what happened. I hope people know that REAL fans would never doing anything like that. #RespectHarry
— adrienne ?✨ (@egginmycrocs_) October 22, 2017
It’s sad that we still have to do these trends cause people still can’t respect Harry. Call this what it is. Sexual assault #RespectHarry
— nocontrolprojec (@NoControlProjec) October 22, 2017