I can’t stress how violent he was and how much I fully believed I was going to die, that he was going to kill me.” (Rolling Stone spoke with a friend of Sarhadi who said she had told them about the alleged assault earlier this year when discussing their bad experiences with men in the punk scene.

Throughout the early and mid-2000s, Anti-Flag grew a sizable younger fan base, with many of the people who spoke for this article crediting the band in shaping their own identities and beliefs in a time of post-9/11 political uncertainty.

Five months later, Geever was allegedly sending a stream of sexual messages to French college student Mat, who tells Rolling Stone that she had approached him for help on a paper about feminism and the place of women in punk-rock music.

“I was one among many made to feel special, manipulated, pressured, and then just thrown to the side of the road,” says Karina, who is using a pseudonym and described herself as sexually inexperienced when she began dating Geever at age 16, right as Anti-Flag was taking off.

After spending time on the tour bus with the rest of the band, Elizabeth says, Geever took her on a walk, where he pulled her into a secluded area outside a building, began kissing her, and stuck his hands down her pants.

Their encounters, which Weller says Geever had instructed her to keep a secret, were split between friendly, chaste exchanges in public and sexual activity in closets, the lofted rehearsal space at his family home, and sleeping bags on overnight church trips.

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