A man was arrested after allegedly racially abusing passengers and spitting at a driver before he was caught dancing at a bus stop on Tuesday (June 20).
06.06.2023 - 16:07 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A woman who was ejected from Saturday night’s Coldplay show at the Etihad after she stood up and danced during the song played at her mother-in-law’s funeral, has called the behaviour of security staff ‘disgusting’.
Andrea Nelson, from Moston, was in a seated area of the stadium and got up out of her seat to dance to the band’s anthem Yellow, but soon found herself being escorted out barely halfway through the set. Though tickets for her section of the stadium stipulate that standing during the concert is not allowed, she tried to reason with security and explain the situation.
But Andrea, who paid nearly £150 for her ticket, told the Manchester Evening News that staff at the stadium were ‘rude‘ and ‘would not listen’, and she and her partner Anthony soon found themselves being removed from the venue. “I stood up to dance, but so were other people. Because we were near the steps, security were next to us,” she said.
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“They asked me to sit down, so I asked if we could be moved somewhere else, bearing in mind this was my mother-in-law’s funeral song. I told them this.
“They said I might fall over the barrier, which basically came up to my chest. I’m five foot. Next thing, about 10 security came and escorted me out.”
Footage of Andrea dancing at the concert, moments before she was removed, has been posted to TikTok and has received tens of thousands of views. She went on: “About 10 men [arrived]. They said basically you need to leave. I told them I hadn’t done anything wrong, I’d not been abusive, I said this is my mother-in-law’s song, and this is why I got up.
“I didn’t realise the seats were restricted. If I had, we shouldn’t have been paying full price
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