Super Bowl halftime performer charged for running on field with 'Sudan and Free Gaza' flag
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A Super Bowl halftime show performer has been charged 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.”

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.

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      • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeBanned from communityEnglish
        210·
        1 day ago

        He’s the most MAGA president ever, but it’s NOT what most Americans want from our country. We are terribly ashamed of what is happening right now.

        • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          60·
          1 day ago

          but it’s NOT what most Americans want from our country. We are terribly ashamed of what is happening right now.

          What kind of copium you huffing where you come up with shit like this? MILLIONS of people voted for the guy. He was president in 2016 too, when, again, millions voted for him. You’ve built up a fantasy in your head and you’re so detached from material reality.

        • Chana [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          55·
          1 day ago

          Most Americans have no political consciousness and don’t give a shit. You’ve got nobody in the streets, nationalist, and you certainly don’t speak for the public. It’s pretty obvious you don’t even speak to common people, you’re so wrapped up in this little bubble and they would burst it for you immediately.

          • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeBanned from communityEnglish
            29·
            1 day ago

            Dude, YOU are in a bubble. Nobody in the streets? Did you see the recent No Kings protests? Literally millions of people filled the streets of EVERY city in America, and these protests were bigger than the previous protests which are happening every weekend. In fact, the No Kings protests was second only to the George Floyd protests of a couple of years ago.

            • Hestia [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
              27·
              23 hours ago

              You can really inflate those numbers when those “protests” are happening tangential to things like the ICE protests and pride parades. Where I’m at, there was legitimately pride, no kings, and ice protests all happening downtown at the same time.

              You can inflate the numbers all you like, but the truth of the matter is that Americans yearn for a king.

              Which can only be resolved by returning to the fold of the great British empire. Long live the king!

            • john_brown [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
              59·
              1 day ago

              In fact, the No Kings protests was second only to the George Floyd protests of a couple of years ago.

              The one day parade was “second only” to months of non-stop people in the streets protesting? This is not something a serious person would say.

            • Chana [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
              48·
              1 day ago

              Dude, YOU are in a bubble.

              Nope I organize my community I talk to random-ass people every goddamn day while you very obviously do not with these Reddit-brain nationalist shut-in replies.

              Nobody in the streets? Did you see the recent No Kings protests? Literally millions of people filled the streets of EVERY city in America, and these protests were bigger than the previous protests which are happening every weekend. In fact, the No Kings protests was second only to the George Floyd protests of a couple of years ago.

              And they accomplished nothing and the libs went back to brunch. Liberal protests are just cop-sanctioned parades, they have no impact whatsoever except to make the politically illiterate fool themselves into accepting the status quo because they now think it is something they are sufficiently working against (by doing nothing with any other effect!).

              By in the streets, I mean actually making shit happen by mobilizing and making material demands with material threats that are acted on if the demands are not met. Actually not putting up with the status quo by force.

              Americans sure as hell aren’t doing that over Trump. No Kings achieves the opposite, which is complacency.

    • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      74·
      1 day ago

      We deserve Trump, though. God, do we deserve him. We Americans have some good qualities, too, don’t get me wrong. But we’re also a bloodthirsty Mr. Hyde nation that subsists on massacres and slave labor and leaves victims half-alive and crawling over deserts and jungles, while we sit stuffing ourselves on couches and blathering about our “American exceptionalism.” We dumped 20 million gallons of toxic herbicide on Vietnam from the air, just to make the shooting easier without all those trees, an insane plan to win “hearts and minds” that has left about a million still disabled from defects and disease – including about 100,000 children, even decades later, little kids with misshapen heads, webbed hands and fused eyelids writhing on cots, our real American legacy, well out of view, of course.

      Nowadays we use flying robots and missiles to kill so many civilians and women and children in places like Mosul and Raqqa and Damadola, Pakistan, in our countless ongoing undeclared wars that the incidents scarcely make the news anymore. Our next innovation is “automation,” AI-powered drones that can identify and shoot targets, so human beings don’t have to pull triggers and feel bad anymore. If you want to look in our rearview, it’s lynchings and race war and genocide all the way back, from Hispaniola to Jolo Island in the Philippines to Mendocino County, California, where we nearly wiped out the Yuki people once upon a time.

      This is who we’ve always been, a nation of madmen and sociopaths, for whom murder is a line item, kept hidden via a long list of semantic self-deceptions, from “manifest destiny” to “collateral damage.” We’re used to presidents being the soul of probity, kind Dads and struggling Atlases, humbled by the terrible responsibility, proof to ourselves of our goodness. Now, the mask of respectability is gone, and we feel sorry for ourselves, because the sickness is showing.

      So much of the Trump phenomenon is about history. Fueling the divide between pro- and anti-Trump camps is exactly the fact that we’ve never had a real reckoning with either our terrible past or our similarly bloody present. The Trump movement culturally represents an absolute denial of our sins from slavery on – hence the intense reaction to the removal of Confederate statues, the bizarre paranoia about the Washington Monument being next, and so on. But #resistance is also a denial mechanism. It makes Trump the root of all evil, and is powered by an intense desire to not have to look at the ugliness, to go back to the way things were. We see this hideous clown in the White House and feel our dignity outraged, but when you really think about it, what should America’s president look like?

      Trump is no malfunction. He’s a perfect representation of who, as a country, we are and always have been: an insane monster. Frankly, we’re lucky he’s not walking around using a child’s femur as a toothpick.

      —Matt Taibbi in 2016, before he decided his mortgage payments are more important than solidarity

        • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          57·
          1 day ago

          Andrew Jackson was 200 years ago. How is he relevant?

          utter lack of critical thinking. this is the person calling other people childish

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          • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeBanned from communityEnglish
            25·
            1 day ago

            Andrew Jackson’s policies have almost no relevance to 21st century American politics. Almost no president before the Civil War does.

            You want to disparage me for not understanding AMERICAN history, when Andrew Jackson isn’t even considered one of the 10 worst presidents by historians. Pre-Civil war Presidents like Polk, Taylor, Buchanan, etc are considered worse, but Europeans have never even heard of them. Then there is Andrew Johnson, the Confederate sympathizer VP who became president after Lincoln’s assassination, and cancelled most of the Reconstruction efforts, establishing the Jim Crow laws, and starting the ferocious racism that dominated America for the next century.

            If you want to choose a bad president as an example, you can do worse that Jackson.

            By the way, I have a degree in history.

            • AutoVomBizMarkee [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
              51·
              1 day ago

              I think you have an actual problem keeping a point together, at this point I feel bad even arguing.

              I said Trump was the most American president. As in he delivers the ideals of what America represents (in reality, not your liberal nationalist nonsense). When you said “No” so persuasively, I offered Jackson as another great representative of what America stands for, white supremacy and murder. You were very confused by this.

              I do believe you have a history degree, you very likely 1. Have a very standard liberal university degree. 2. Have a wildly non-materialist view of history.

              Presidential rankings are less important than music video rankings, I don’t care which bastard you like more.

              I also hate people who always need the last word so I am doing my part in extending this.

              • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeBanned from communityEnglish
                48·
                1 day ago

                Who said they don’t consider genocide in their rankings? American historians are brutal towards presidents that supported slavery and the Native American genocide. I’ve never seen a single authentic scholarly historian ( not a propagandist) justify either one of those terrible atrocities.

                Those mid-19th century presidents are excoriated precisely because of their support of slavery and the Native American genocide.

                • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  18·
                  21 hours ago

                  Literally everyone president supported or currently supports the native American genocide. When you take the reigns of the government responsible for it and it doesn’t stop, you are supporting it. Tacit support counts. If youre arguing that every US president was scum, I agree but it makes picking the worst one kinda unimportant

                • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  27·
                  1 day ago

                  American historians are brutal towards presidents that supported slavery and the Native American genocide. I’ve never seen a single authentic scholarly historian ( not a propagandist) justify either one of those terrible atrocities.

                  This is either No True Scotsman or you have never engaged in the most mild evaluation of historiography. There have always been and continue to be historians who are defensive of slavery in cases like George Washington’s. Mostly though, people seem to just sort of gloss over it in his case where they might be more emphatic toward less sacred cows. Yes, obviously there are also many historians who will attack most or all of the pre-Civil War Presidents.