Tom Morello has defended his actions after he threw a fan's cell phone into the crowd after he tried to take a selfie with the musician.
Morello received quite a bit of flak on social media from fans after a video of him throwing the fan's phone into the crowd surfaced.
At the end of the show at Tinley Park, Morello invited some of his fans onstage. He asked them not to take out their cell phone so they could rock the moment.
However, one fan seems to have not understood the warning and tried to take a selfie with Morello while he was playing. Morello grabs the fan's phone and throws it into the crowd.
Morello responded to a few fans that disagreed with his actions on Twitter.
"When you invite guests to YOUR stage and CLEARLY TELL THEM 'if you stick a cell phone in my face I WILL THROW IT' and then their uncontrollable entitled selfie urges overcome their sense of reason they get their f*ckin phones thrown. Simple," he tweeted.
"LOVE having fans onstage, do it every show! If u wanna film instead of rocking out, ur call. But I EXPLICITLY state, 'If you stick a cell phone in my face I will throw it,' this likely constitutes 'fair warning'. It's not a petting zoo. Also dude got his phone right back unharmed," he added.
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