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.
If you think the people buying the country are a more fundamental issue than the people selling the country, I’m not sure what to say. If you think the people selling the country are just Maga, I likewise have the same difficulty.
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.
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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
I see, the Mentally Ill Foreigners are conspiring to steal the constitution and make America into a failed state like Libya and all we have to do is to purge the weak and imbecilic race-traito- I mean anti-democratic populists and then the Republic will be restored to its former glory! Huzzah!
I’ll bite, who are you talking about here?
https://hexbear.net/comment/6284430
My man Xi putting in the hours and not even getting recognised smh.
lol. lmao, even.
Hilariously, Musk is the second one. Yeah, what a spooky foreigner he is. I had assumed he meant Bibi, which would have been silly but not as much so.
The fascist angle of Blue MAGA
Why is lacking loyalty/patriotism to America your primary criticism compared to, say, committing war crimes and funding genocide?
This just sounds like rightwing nationalism to me.
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.
Damn, seems like Russia is really good at long term planning. Sounds like they’d be better at running America. I’ve been anti American before Putin was even in charge. Im a Yeltsin era hater.
Also, youre using a neo fascist as your source.
Obviously, I don’t agree with the rest of what you said either, but this part is really egregious. The US is the global hegemon, and its crimes are innumerable but I can list as many as you like. Its power is difficult to overstate, nor its involvement in the dire state of the world at present. Obviously it gets used as a bizarre scapegoat by reactionaries in the imperial periphery and semi-periphery (e.g., blaming queerness on an American attempt to corrupt public morality), but that’s very different from correctly identifying America for its actual genocidal atrocities, coups, imperialist extraction, and so on.
You really are falling into fundamentally conservative traps of thinking that idealize America as some pure thing being corrupted rather than seeing the machine for what it is.
Oh god here we go lmfaooo
Googled Alexander Dugin. Dude basically invented being a nazbol and citing him should be met with a LOT of skepticism. Im not reading some book by a fascist but these seems like using mein kampf as a source. Dubious as a source and sus that they even read it.
This guy is a dumb lib dweeb, but what he’s saying is that “Dugninism” is the guiding philosophy of the RF and beloved by people like Putin. So he’s not citing Mein Kampf on Mein Kampf’s authority, he’s pointing to people liking Mein Kampf and then explaining their actions in terms of what Mein Kampf says.
The critical difference being that Dugin’s influence is wildly overstated and he’s just sort of a cartoon villain for liberals to invent conspiracies about because he says a lot more wild stuff than Putin. Obviously Dugin is evil and has a political faction, but he’s not some national puppetmaster.
I know, I’m just waiting for one of these BlueAnon libs to show any real proof that he’s actually an influential figure in current day Russian politics. As far as I’ve been able to sus out, him and Putin have never even been in the same room together lol
There is a very good chance this is a teenager because that’s exactly the type of shit I used to say
Um, excuse you Ma’am, they have a hIsTorY dEgReE
The author of these sources
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin
At least they claimed to read a book instead of just citing Wikipedia?
Yeah, and I gotta ask why the fuck theyre picked up this guy’s book in the first place. This feels like using mein kampf as a citation…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin
This dude is like the og nazbol
Russia, and any other nation that spreads “anti-Americanism,” is absolutely justified. Its not some deep geopolitical plot, it’s just basic self defense for decades of American meddling across the globe.
Maybe if you didn’t want warlords and dictators everywhere, you shouldn’t have given them guns and money just because communism bad.
If Putin’s goal is to take down the US, explain why shouldn’t we help him? The US is currently arming a genocide, closely supporting the genocidal military and government. For-profit prisons hold thousands, nearly a quarter of the world’s entire prisoner population is in the US. Slavery is legal, US prisoners are forced to do work for the profit of their captors. Immigrants are now allowed to be
deportedexiled to countries other than their origin regardless of their risk of harm, and while the raids now are more public, democrats paved the way for the current enforcement. Thousands are set to be deported to Guantanamo Bay and other places overseas. Life expectancy is going down and set to continue decreasing as public health measures are gutted and healthcare further privatized. There is not even a hint of serious action against climate change from the US. Innocent people, women, children, animals are killed every day from US made and delivered bombs.What horror would you see happening if the US as it formally is now ceased to be?
Yeah but think of how bad it’ll be if its a Russian guy doing it! Haven’t you seen movies? Theyre ontologically evil!
Remember, immigrants aren’t just being deported or exiled, because those terms imply that they get to be free at least within wherever they are sent to, rather than being sent to a foreign prison to be used a slaves indefinitely.
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 are follow8ng the narrative set out by a Russian far right extremist. Generally not people to be trusted
You’ve walked back every single attempt at facts you’ve made today. You don’t get to speak about facts, little one
Fuck you, if America didn’t try to fuck my country or any other country I’ll not have the anti-americanism. USA did “Putin dirty job” alone. Don’t try to shift the blame.
Here’s the author of where they got this ‘information’…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin
Sus
lmfao, this is the most fascist shit I’ve ever read.
Here’s their source author
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin
Childish response.
Cope
go eat a dog turd
Childish response.
Maybe they should call you “Hitlerpig” instead?
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Yeah, it’s called code switching - Just trying to make sure you understood me
good bit 10/10 no notes
Holy hitler particles