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.
It also had the effect of giving Trump’s base a group of political prisoners to rally around (as farcical as that was), it kept him and his “movement” relevant when he was out of office, and now that he’s pardoned them it has emboldened his freikorps to break even more laws for him because they know he’s got their back. I don’t think ICE would be as bold if it weren’t for J-6th.
I just don’t think you can say, for sure, that it played no role in his reelection or in his current ethnic cleansing campaign.
I don’t remember anyone rallying around Jan 6ers. They did their “they were just innocent white angels” routine to deflect but they weren’t treated like martyrs (which would have been smart).
I don’t think there’s a connection to ICE outside of Trump showing he will pardon people. ICE has bern like this, it is made up of the worst chuds and has been since its inception. They have been doing fucked up shit and we’ve had to organize communities against them. There were raids under Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden, and anyone involved in this organizing has been saying chinga la migra for ages. The difference now is that they are using open terror tactics, hiding their faces, and the feds have authorized detentions and even exiling people without due process. That comes from above.
Pardoning the J-6ers came from above too, though. The top-down message that sends is “anything you do in Trump’s name is legal” and ICE certainly heard the message.
I don’t think it should be written off, is all I’m saying. There’s something to learn here.
I suppose, but I’m not being flippant when I say that the lesson is to form armed cadres and doxx ICE agents.