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(3,015 posts) Mon Feb 10, 2025, 07:44 AM Feb 10

Super Bowl Halftime Performer Detained After Unfurling Sudanese-Palestinian Flag [View all]

(Photo: AFP / Getty Images)

A performer in Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show was detained on the field and could face charges after unfurling a combination Sudanese-Palestinian flag with “Sudan” and “Gaza” written on it.

The NFL confirmed the person was part of the 400-member field cast. The New Orleans Police Department said in a statement that “law enforcement is working to determine applicable charges in this incident.”

The NOPD is working to determine the applicable charges?

Here's the charge:

"Forgetting that the US is a white Judeo-Christian country and everybody else in the world doesn't matter."

Source:

https://apnews.com/article/super-bowl-halftime-protest-palestine-0d670147fe14286bfb665f739772f0a7

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Super Bowl Halftime Performer Detained After Unfurling Sudanese-Palestinian Flag [View all] C0RI0LANUS Feb 10 OP

This is just wrong.................. Lovie777 Feb 10 #1

Detain him first THEN try to find charges? Think. Again. Feb 10 #2

Welcome to... 2naSalit Feb 10 #5

Is that a 1987 Buick GNX he's standing on, scratching up the paint job? mahatmakanejeeves Feb 10 #3

Indeed it is Docreed2003 Feb 10 #7

Yes it is Polybius Feb 10 #22

Owner of car file vandalism charges exboyfil Feb 10 #4

Coming up with charges against this man of color was a problem the antebellum Slave Patrol didn't have. C0RI0LANUS Feb 10 #6

There is nothing illegal about unfurling a flag Wiz Imp Feb 10 #8

Ridiculous. Since presumably there's no law against this, if we begin to Mike 03 Feb 10 #9

So much for first amendment rights that president Musk was so worried about. nt yaesu Feb 10 #10

I think it's make-up-a-law-day in the US. sinkingfeeling Feb 10 #11

I don't think any charges will be filed. LeftInTX Feb 10 #12

Is that in or outside the arena? iemanja Feb 10 #15

It was unfurled by a performer during the half time show. (In the arena) LeftInTX Feb 10 #17

I see iemanja Feb 10 #18

Hi LeftInTexas. Thanks for the info. I bet if the man waved a Trumpf or Confederate flag, he'd have been applauded. C0RI0LANUS Feb 10 #13

Free speech has been abolished under Trump iemanja Feb 10 #14

Are the others doing Nazi salutes? iemanja Feb 10 #16

Likely voted for Trump anyway. Lemons UK Feb 10 #19

Probably the 1st time that most of the viewers have heard of Sudan. maxsolomon Feb 10 #20

The flag has generated more conversation sarisataka Feb 10 #23

Standing on that beautiful GNX makes me cringe Polybius Feb 10 #21