{"id":8721,"date":"2026-07-14T07:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/singer-dave-matthews-pauses-concert-to-condemn-ice-a-holes-for-houston-death\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T07:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:58:54","slug":"singer-dave-matthews-pauses-concert-to-condemn-ice-a-holes-for-houston-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/singer-dave-matthews-pauses-concert-to-condemn-ice-a-holes-for-houston-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Dave Matthews pauses concert to condemn ICE &#8216;a&#8211;holes&#8217; for Houston death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F07%2FDave-Matthews.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Dave Matthews, lead singer of the Dave Matthews Band, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/07\/us-news\/ice-agent-guns-down-illegal-immigrant-in-texas-who-allegedly-tried-to-plow-car-into-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">condemned\u00a0Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)\u00a0agents<\/a> as \u201ca\u2013holes\u201d during a Friday concert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know why we let people make excuses for why we should kill each other, you know?\u201d Matthews said. \u201cThere\u2019s always reasons that we should kill each other. They tell our children and use their words when they \u2014 when they grow up. I wonder what\u2019s wrong with us. I don\u2019t know why we lost our way. So it feels \u2014 but maybe we\u2019ve always been like this, we just got better at making things that can kill each other,\u201d he said in a\u00a0viral video clip\u00a0of the concert.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyway, I wanted to say his name. I wrote it down so I didn\u2019t forget it, this young man who was \u2014 well, old man, but we\u2019re all young \u2014 this father and grandfather who was murdered by ICE in Houston, Texas. And then they say he\u2019s not even the guy \u2014 he\u2019s not even the guy they were looking for. Well, then don\u2019t pull the trigger, you a\u2013holes.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dave Matthews: \u201cThis father and grandfather who was murdered by ICE in Houston, Texas. Then they say he\u2019s not even the guy they were looking for. Well then don\u2019t pull the trigger you assholes. It just makes me mad. I want to send this to the memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EoNAMHQzIw\">pic.twitter.com\/EoNAMHQzIw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarcoFoster_\/status\/2076293632420728939?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSo I just wanted to say, I\u2019m sorry if that language offends his family or his friends or his community, but it\u2019s just making me mad anyway, so I want to send this to the memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was killed a few days ago in Houston by ICE,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican citizen,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/10\/us-news\/mexican-immigrant-gunned-down-by-ice-in-texas-was-not-the-intended-target-dhs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was shot and killed\u00a0in Houston after he allegedly tried to ram US ICE officers during an operation<\/a>, the agency said Tuesday. ICE officers were attempting to conduct a traffic stop at around 6:50 a.m., an ICE spokesperson told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>Araujo tried evading the ICE officers when he \u201cweaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer, resulting in our officer firing his weapon in self-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Dave Matthews, lead singer of the Dave Matthews Band, condemned\u00a0Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)\u00a0agents as \u201ca\u2013holes\u201d during a Friday concert. <span class=\"credit\">@MarcoFoster_\/X<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Video showing the moment after the driver was shot dead by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Maine for allegedly trying to mow down agents with his car. <span class=\"credit\">X \/ @@TheMaineWonk<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>FBI investigators work the scene of an alleged ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford, Maine, on July 13, 2026. <span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Matthews has condemned ICE agents before. After the killing of activist Renee Good in Minneapolis amid an altercation with ICE agents in February, he spoke out in a video\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/dave-matthews-trump-ice-shootin_n_6962c277e4b0068b9689394a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on his Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want my taxes to pay for ICE, to masked thugs to roam our streets and terrorize our communities and rip families apart. We should be taking care of each other. We should be minding each other. We should be housing the homeless. We shouldn\u2019t be, you know, throwing people to the ground,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich brings me to Renee Nicole Good,\u201d he continued. \u201cMurdered in front of her fellow citizens in\u00a0Minneapolis, murdered in the streets, and no matter what narrative this administration is trying to sell us, we can see the videos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital contacted ICE for comment but did not receive an immediate response.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/14\/celebrity-news\/singer-dave-matthews-pauses-concert-to-condemn-ice-a-holes-for-houston-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Matthews, lead singer of the Dave Matthews Band, condemned\u00a0Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)\u00a0agents as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Dave-Matthews.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}