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 NEVER said that either was a priority, you put those words in my mouth. They are two separate subjects, and both are high priority.
I am pointing out that the three biggest influences on America right now are Putin, Musk, and Trump, and none of them are motivated by their love for this nation, perhaps the most basic characteristic that any nation expects from its leaders. We expect that our leaders will place the health of their nation above their own personal financial ambitions, and the exact opposite is true of these three jackals.
Condemning war crimes and genocide should be a given. Of course I am against those things, and have loudly condemned the MAGA Nazi government for those atrocities. I also spoke out against the Biden administration for supporting Israel's genocide of the Palestinians, and I have been speaking out for years about Israel's horrific treatment of the West Bank and Gaza residents.
It is not either/or, I can oppose all of it equally.
Understood. I think there's a tendency to overestimate the influence of external actors in order to subconsciously externalize America's problems as not-American. Fascist ideology plays on this tendency and cultivates an image of a "pure" nation that is merely being corrupted by external forces (or often an internal force that is externalized/otherized). So that's probably one reason you're seeing so much pushback in these replies.
When studying US history, we see a consistent through-line of decades of imperialism, war crimes, and domestic oppression that isn't in any way unique to Trump and can be explained almost entirely by US material interests. Given that and the fact the US is the dominant global superpower, narratives that try to assign blame to foreign actors seem mislead at best.
I would normally agree, but Russia's influence on MAGA, and especially HitlerPig himself, is well documented.
In 1997, Alexandr Dugin published The Foundations of Geopolitics, which outlined how Russia could achieve world dominance without war, and it has become the playbook for Russian foreign policy. It is taught at the Russian Military Academy, and Putin keeps a copy on his desk. Dugin is still a close advisor, and his daughter was a major intelligence authority until she was murdered by a car bomb that was meant for her father.
I suggest everyone who thinks the Russia influence is overblown to peruse the section under Content, where they will find Russia's plan to dominate each region of the world. Under America, it reads:
Read the section on England, and you will recognize Brexit. Read the section on Ukraine, and you will read language that Putin has quoted directly in his justifications for invading Ukraine. It is obvious that this book is Putin's blueprint.
There is also this statement:
And here is this community, doing exactly what Putin wants you to do.
Not only is Putin behind the rise of far right politics, you are falling right into his trap, and helping him.
libs and the great man theory, name a more iconic duo
You are following the Republican motto: Don't bother me with facts, my mind's made up.
You've walked back every single attempt at facts you've made today. You don't get to speak about facts, little one
You are follow8ng the narrative set out by a Russian far right extremist. Generally not people to be trusted