According to fans, the incident happened during a part of the show where the band was inviting people up on stage, which it had done at previous stops of its tour. Video appears to show multiple fans hop onto the stage without incident before the deputy chooses to deploy spray on one individual.

In my experience, when he got sprayed, I had already been on stage and I was on the far side, so as I came back to the close side is when it started to hit me and I started coughing. It felt like I was going to throw up. My arm started burning. My eyes are irritated a lot. That wasn't fun at all," said Colin Buck, who was at the concert and affected by the pepper spray. It kind of put a damper on the whole show.

As to why the officer chose to use force in that situation, Richmond Sheriff Antionet

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