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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    What dogshit diploma mill was willing to give your ass a degree? Your understanding of history is worse than the average layperson .

    politically independent

    What does that even mean? Independent of fucking what? You seem like a bog standard liberal western supremacist

    so nobody is more aware of America’s problematic history

    Except the victims of it, you chauvinist fuck.

    all my life I have struggled to reconcile that history with my personal morality.

    Oh, so you started with the conclusion that America was morale and worked backwards from there to justify it.

    However, I have faith in the original concept of America as a nation where all people can be free and equal

    Literal fucking slavery, my dude. And indigenous genocide.

    the philosophy of freedom under which we were founded

    Literal, owning humans as property, chattel fucking slavery.

    force it to follow the positive philosophy that is supposed to be our foundation.

    White supremacy, slavery, and imperial conquest.

    I do not defend America’s problems

    Yes actually, you do, constantly. To the point of fascism.