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.
I agree actually that most Americans don’t support outwardly horrific things (though a huge portion really do because that is what America is based on, death and white supremacy) but he perfectly represents what this country is actually about, dictatorship of the bourgeois.
Also good lord enough with the “hostile foreign governement” thing and accept that the horror is coming from inside the house.
It is counterproductive to ignore the fact that America is under attack by two foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs, assisted by the most prolific Traitor in American history, and also a vicious Sociopath. None of them have any loyalty or patriotism to America, and only see it it as a rich, fat, lazy target to be exploited ruthlessly.
These are simple facts, and America cannot be saved, and perhaps even redeemed (the wish of most Americans, who are quite aware of our historical stains), until the real enemies are purged from our society, and the world. Scoffing at the reality of the situation is stupid.
On the contrary, Trump is very loyal to the american empire's interests. His whole trade war gamble shows his greater vision. Forcing the entire world to renegotiate terms and get better deals for american monopoly capitalists.
I wouldn't say that the bourgeoise should be purged, but tamed and abolished certainly. Well, we can have a little purging as a treat.
No shit. And Dems have been making policy decisions based on what makes them money, too. But I don’t see you calling them out
To whose benefit, do you think?
2 things can be true at the same time