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.
This shit makes me sad. You want to be politically engaged, you want to understand the world around you, but you've been taught lies your whole life, and you refuse to try and break out of the political ideology you've been taught and accepted. So you sit here and say trump is an aberration. You call him names because that's all you can think to do. You don't see that trump is a symptom, not a cause. You think if you just vote correctly that somehow, the world will improve around you. But it won't.
You remind me of my dad and it just makes me sad. I don't have some glib, clever way to end this. You'll believe what you believe, and nothing we can say will change your mind, unless you let it. Which I encourage you to try and do. Consider that maybe "communism" isn't the dirty word you've been taught it is. Consider that perhaps there is a way towards a brighter future, it's just that it won't come from the democratic party.
I hope you come to a fuller understanding of the world as it actually is rather than as you wish it were, I really, truly do.
This comment section is just making me sad now, fuck