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.
Bluemaga has to be mostly made up of people who weren’t alive or really young during the bush years. Admittedly that’s when I cut my teeth politically. I was 12 when he was elected and came of age during the Iraq war with recruiters in my school cafeteria making fun of us chubby/pacifist kids and goading my friends to go die or kill innocents in the Middle East on a lie. Some of them did.
I will never forgive democrats for letting bush off the hook. That was my first line in the sand and I’ve never looked back.
I suppose it must be. I guess my image of a “democrat supporter” is someone older, probably in their 40s or so, because I cannot see why the “youth” would ever support a party full of ghouls like that. The republicans I can understand, they offer easy answers to everything, but the democrats? I don’t understand why in hell someone in their 20s would ever vote for them. I guess I’m just out of touch with the kids.