NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Super Bowl halftime show performer was charged Thursday with two misdemeanors, about 4 1/2 months after he ran across the field at the Superdome waving a flag that included the words “Sudan and Free Gaza,” Louisiana State Police said.
Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, 41, turned himself in to authorities to face of charges resisting a police officer and disturbing the peace by interrupting a lawful assembly, police said. He surrendered in coordination with his attorney and was booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center.
Nantambu revealed the flag and ran on the field during rapper Kendrick Lamar’s halftime performance on Feb. 9. He was detained on the field after his demonstration but not charged. The NFL said at the time he would be banned for life from league stadiums and events.
According to a statement from police, Nantambu had been hired as an extra performer and “had permission to be on the field during the performance, but did not have permission to demonstrate as he did.”
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy thanked investigators for their work.
“We take any attempt to disrupt any part of an NFL game, including the halftime show, very seriously and are pleased this individual will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law,” McCarthy said in a statement.
Much of what you said is true, but that doesn't mean Americans like it. We allowed billionaires to gain an outsized influence in American police and now we have to dig ourselves out of it. This is NOT what most Americans want, anymore than the Nazis were what most Germans wanted. These people forced their way into power, partially the fault of weak/ lazy/ corrupt politicians who turned away from the threat, and now they intend to hold power through intimidation.
It won't work. The one thing Americans are is fighters. We love to fight, and we will eventually conquer the MAGA Nazis. I'm not really worried about that part. It will happen, they are already doomed.
My concern is that once they are gone, we won't take the opportunity to rebuild our country properly, in order to avoid more trouble down the road. Andrew Johnson took over after Lincoln's assassination, and sabotaged the Reconstruction efforts, causing the Jim Crow era of racial inequality of the next 100 years, and eventually leading to MAGA.
We can't make that mistake again. We will have to rebuild with a different philosophy, and crush anyone who tries to insist on a policy of Hate.
Literal fascist rhetoric.
The owning class running society has been the case for basically all of recorded human history. There is a direct continuity from the landed gentry and mercantile class of the late medieval period to the bourgeois masters of today. This isn't something that we tripped into as recently as the last 80 years.
The worst liberal lie about Nazi Germany is that Hitler won his election, so I'm glad you aren't doing that, but Nazis did win many lower seats and the economically liberal establishment was quite amenable to working with Nazis to crush the communists, which directly led to the Nazi takeover, and then the Nazis were able to run society with impressively little resistance from the social majority Germans. This is where you now offer excuses and clean Wehrmacht nonsense for me.
No, we're bullies toward whoever our respective cultural factions view as inferior (queers, rednecks, etc.) who love to wallow in treats and sneer at the victims of empire, or even just victims of natural disasters and plague if they fall into one of the aforementioned groups.
When a Marxist calls you idealist, this is the sort of reasoning they are talking about. The abortion of Reconstruction was certainly a mistake in terms of Lincoln's planning, because his political philosophy of appointing political enemies was extremely stupid and itself idealist, but to act like it was a mistake in any broader sense is misinformed. Just like all the other monstrous actions the US has taken part in, there is a material basis for it being the favored outcome, with deeply entrenched interests who are rarely ever challenged.
You've been continuously suggesting a collective guilt that I don't think is reflective of the uninterrupted monopoly on power held by the owning class, which Trump is just a particularly crude expression of.
I think they meant kill, not fight. Americans are killers, they love to kill.
Yeah, you love to "fight" poor brown people on the other side of the planet
But with some Model UN brains.
Oh god.
I seriously got whiplash from that one. I might almost miss .ee
You have an (alleged) history degree and you seriously think it was just one man on his own whim who sabotaged reconstruction?
Americans did this. All of them collectively, not “one bad apple” you can shame and wave away the rest.
So I was right. You can't argue with anything I said - you addressed none of it in this comment.