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SB LIX performer arrested by La. State Police for halftime protest
ESPN ^ | 6/26/2025 | AP

Posted on 06/28/2025 5:20:51 PM PDT by God luvs America

A performer at Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl LIX halftime show in February has been arrested after holding up a Sudanese flag there with the message "Sudan and Free Gaza," Louisiana State Police announced Thursday.

The performer, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, 41, of New Orleans surrendered to authorities after an arrest warrant was obtained, state police said. He was booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center on charges of resisting an officer and disturbing the peace by interruption of a lawful assembly.

State police say troopers began investigating shortly after the Feb. 9 game at the Caesars Superdome and found that Nantambu "deviated from his assigned role" and disrupted the halftime show by running across the field with the flag. Security and law enforcement personnel ran after him, and he refused to comply with their commands to stop, state police said in a statement Thursday.

"In coordination with the National Football League, troopers learned that Nantambu had permission to be on the field during the performance, but did not have permission to demonstrate as he did," state police said.

Neither jail records nor online court records list a lawyer for Nantambu who could be reached for comment.

The arrest comes after New Orleans police said shortly after the football game at Caesars Superdome that the cast member would not face charges. But it was Louisiana State Police who announced the charges Thursday.

New Orleans police initially responded to the disturbance, but Louisiana State Police then took over the investigation, partly due to the performer's access to a highly secured area, Louisiana State Police Sgt. Katharine Stegall said in an email to The Associated Press.

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1 posted on 06/28/2025 5:20:51 PM PDT by God luvs America
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To: God luvs America
Sudan and free Gaza

Why would he want to sue Dan?

In any case, wherever he is, Kwai-Chang is smiling down on his descendant.

2 posted on 06/28/2025 5:29:25 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: God luvs America

But it was okay to fly the Jewish flag high above the US Flag, over and over again, around Tulane Stadium during graduation ceremonies.

Wowza!!


3 posted on 06/28/2025 5:36:25 PM PDT by Racketeer
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Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, 41, of New Orleans

Came over on the Mayflower.

4 posted on 06/28/2025 5:49:10 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Racketeer
What is a "Jewish flag"?

5 posted on 06/28/2025 7:06:53 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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I will have to laugh when I burn the Blue Star of David on a white background cloth for all of this time I thought it was a Jewish flag.

I do know, while at the Tulane ceremony, I had not ever seen so many in one area, not even close, in all of my life!!


6 posted on 06/29/2025 5:53:56 AM PDT by Racketeer
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Yes, I guess you could call the Israeli flag, the Jewish flag. I just never heard of it referred to that way.

7 posted on 06/29/2025 7:04:54 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: God luvs America

“Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu”

GTFO of my country.


8 posted on 06/29/2025 7:29:33 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: God luvs America

More Black Fatigue


9 posted on 06/29/2025 11:41:53 AM PDT by NowApproachingMidnight (Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.)
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