Original sentence: " He accused the uploader of the video showing this footage to have manipulated the footage to make it appear as though he threw it, as he insists that he accidentally dropped it while trying to take pictures of the fan and of himself." He elaborated on that in an interview, saying: "I say that stuff all the time, you know." He finds that this was used against him in the lawsuit: "It's just something that the other guys [in the band] and their team of people are trying to twist into a 'Geoff doesn't respect the fans' type of thing.And I say things to get people motivated.But if you're in a lawsuit, of course, these things get taken out of context and put into a new format.Charles, Illinois on May 17, 2013, Tate grabbed an audience member's smartphone, turned around, and threw it over his shoulder into the crowd.I guess the objective is to make me look like I don't care about the fans.I think... I say things to push people's buttons to get them to react.I was trying to motivate or excite them.It's part of a performance.It's part of being a front man, you know.On the subject, Tate commented: "Some actions that I have become very normal with as a performer are getting scrutinized and manipulated to paint a picture of me [to make me look like a bad guy].Since 2012, Tate has attracted some controversy, mostly in part to the circumstances surrounding the split with Queensrÿche (when his bandmates, guitarist Michael Wilton, bassist Eddie Jackson and drummer Scott Rockenfield fired him from the band and replaced him with then-Crimson Glory vocalist Todd La Torre).Then, during a later show the Rocklahoma Festival on May 26, Tate commented to an unresponsive crowd "You guys suck", which his bandmates, as well as some fans, felt was an insult, but Tate would later defend his actions by stating in a court declaration "I was not insulting the audience.Which is unfortunate.You got to motivate the audience, you know
Edited sentence: Charles, Illinois on May 17, 2013, Tate grabbed an audience member's smartphone and threw it into the crowd.Since 2012, Tate has attracted some controversy, mostly in part to the circumstances surrounding the split with Queensrÿche (when his bandmates, guitarist Michael Wilton, bassist Eddie Jackson and drummer Scott Rockenfield removed him from the band and replaced him with then-Crimson Glory vocalist Todd La Torre).Tate accused the uploader of the video showing this footage to have manipulated the footage to make it appear as though he threw it, as he insists that he accidentally dropped it while trying to take pictures of the fan and of himself