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.
The "they're all the same" argument is lazy and not worth engaging. This the same thinking that allowed the rise of MAGA.
Sounds like you just can't argue with anything I said but your fragile nationalist ego won't let that stand.
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.
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.