A person has been arrested for disrupting Kendrick Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl halftime present with a protest flag supporting Gaza and Sudan.
A person has been arrested virtually 5 months after waving a Palestinian flag with “Gaza” and “Sudan” scrawled throughout it throughout Kendrick Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl LIX Halftime Present efficiency.
Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, a 41-year-old resident of New Orleans, was employed as a background performer for Kendrick Lamar.
He disrupted the February 9 present on the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans by climbing atop a black Buick GNX and revealing the flag mid-performance.
He refused to comply with the safety’s instructions and was rapidly detained. The incident triggered an investigation by Troop NOLA Troopers, who recognized Nantambu via inner evaluate and surveillance footage.
An arrest warrant was issued by the Orleans Parish Legal District Courtroom.
On Thursday (June 26), Nantambu turned himself in via his lawyer and was booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Heart.
“The preliminary investigation revealed that through the halftime efficiency, a performer deviated from his assigned position, retrieved a Sudanese flag bearing the message ‘Sudan and Free Gaza’ and disrupted the halftime present by working throughout the sector with the flag. Safety and legislation enforcement personnel on web site rapidly acknowledged the unauthorized motion and apprehended the performer after he refused to adjust to their instructions to cease,” police mentioned in a press release.
He faces expenses of resisting an officer and disturbing the peace by interruption of a lawful meeting.
The NFL completely banned Nantambu from all league occasions. The protest passed off throughout one of many most-watched Tremendous Bowl halftime performances in latest historical past.
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