Purported Member of Furious Styles Blames Media for "Shitstorm," Approves of Shirt.

A purported member of the hardcore band Furious Styles -- whose singer, Michael Torres, ignited controversy earlier this week, creating a shirt honoring Christopher Monfort, who is charged in the slaying of police officer Timothy Brenton -- waded into the comments thread of a Seattle Weekly blog post to express surprise and dismay at the amount of negative attention the band has received for said shirt. 

The story was first broken here on SeattleCrime.com here, here, and here, in what we've deemed the "classiest story of the week." Since then, The Weekly, the seminal Punknews.org, the Seattle Times, and even KOMO's Ken Schram have jumped on the bandwagon.

The commenter, who posts under the name "Current FS Member," blames the media for being generally uninformed and blowing the story out of preportion, which he says resulted in the band's friends turning on them. (Betrayal, such a classic hardcore theme!)

I'll just let him take it from here:

The past day has been a shit-storm for a shirt that wasn't even supposed to reach mainstream society. This shirt wasn't a silly publicity stunt and frankly we're supprised at the ammount of attention it's recieved. We've never wanted or expected mainstream success or attention. This shirt was meant to sell to a select few fans, not to be peddled off onto Seattle's teenagers at Hot-Topic.

Anyone who knows Furious Styles knows our stance on police and just because an officer is actually killed doesn't mean we're going to change our tune, so to speak. It wasn't a joke then and it's not a joke now. Because of the press coverage, which was completely unexpected and misinformed, we've had alot of "friends" turn their backs on us. But at the same time, the true friends and fans we have have shown us alot of support. I'm still a member of FS, I still live in Seattle and I still support the shirt as well as all the bands statements.

To be honest I was more impressed by Christopher Monfort's actions when he destroyed those police cruisers a few days before the shooting than the shooting it's self.