On the night of Saturday March 2, a video went viral online that had Ethics member Swat talking in pain and being surrounded by an angry crowd.
It was alleged earlier that Swat had attempted to break into a neighbourhood apartment as earlier reported.
However, the band through a statement on Twitter came out clear and confirmed that as much as the person in the amateur video was one of them, he was not stealing as alleged.
According to the tweet, Swat was chilling out with other friends outside their apartment when they noticed police who were on patrol handcuffing all youths found outside.
They then decided to run to avoid arrest and hid in a random apartment where owners thought they were thieves and started beating them.
"Swat and his friends saw this and sought to run away so as not to get arrested. They ended up entering a random apartment and hid there (so as not to get arrested) but people who lived in that plot/ apartment, thought they were thieves since they’d never seen them at the apartment. They started flogging them and beating them up, at one point they nearly burnt them," reads a Twitter statement by Ethics.
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