Beyoncé has faced a wave of criticism following her controversial performance at the halftime show of Super Bowl 50 earlier this month.
The former Mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, is among those who have taken issue with Beyoncé’s performance, which featured the singer performing her new single “Formation” while dancers sported black leather and berets reminiscent of the Black Panther movement.
Now, Javier Ortiz, the President of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, has issued a statement asking law enforcement to boycott Beyoncé’s shows following the singer’s performance.
“I was one of the tens of thousands of law enforcement officers that didn’t watch the Super Bowl halftime show out of respect for our profession,” Ortiz’s statement reads, per The Guardian. “On another day, while flipping through the television channels, I did mistakenly watch her Formation video that shows scenes of a young black boy dancing in front of police in riot gear, who signal their surrender by putting their hands up, referencing the ‘Hands up, don’t shoot’ anthem of the Black Lives Matter movement inspired by the 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.”
“While Beyoncé physically saluted the 50th anniversary of the Black Panthers movement at the Super Bowl, I salute NYPD Officer Richard Rainey, who succumbed to his injuries on 16 February 2016 from being shot by two Black Panthers who he had pulled over in a traffic stop. I also salute the dozens of law enforcement officers that have been assassinated by members of the Black Panthers. We ask all law enforcement labour organisations to join our boycott across the country and to boycott all of her concerts.”
However, a spokesperson for the Miami-Dade Police Department responded to Ortiz’s statement with the following:
“Right now the union president has his first amendment right to say whatever he wants to say, but that doesn’t always translate to reality. As far as we see, there’s no indication that anything that is said there will translate into police officers not working the job.”
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That’s the new black panthers that did that which has nothing to do with what Beyoncé was promoting…the original black panther party has denounced the new panthers. In the wise words of Tip Harris “How they gon protest our protest?”
Weak.. while you are at it, salute those who died in the middle passage…salute those lynched by the KKK,… Salute those that have been abused/killed by corrupt cops, even cops themselves have been victimized by other cops (hint; Serpico, NY cop getting shot because he was black and his pops was a high ranking police officer, remember that? back in Beantown, an undercover cop shot while he was pursuing a suspect, ended up getting beat up by white cops responding to call et al..) salute those being fed garbage by the mass media and being led to repeat dead-end cycles of prison, murder, fatherless homes, drugs etc….dumb ass.
Serpico was black? 😀 Put down the crack pipe nigga!
Nah, IMBECILE (google that word just like you did for Serpico), follow the commas, actually Serpico was supposed to have a period after. have you ever heard a black man with a name like Serpico ? Was Serpico’s father a high ranking police officer? Imbecile YOU need to put the crack pipe down.
Javier has not idea what he is talking about, just trying to get some press in which he did a good job.
The Halftime show was only directed to those police who have violated American’s rights… Not all police but the police who are like the officer in South Carolina who shot an unarmed man in the back because he ran! WTF kind of shit is that??? Everybody with sense knows the world needs men in uniform but not cowards in uniforms…
Cops…Where broken high school dreams go to torture the rest of society.
I wonder what Beyonce has to do with hiphop besides suckin Jay-Z’s cock and havin threesomes with R. Kelly.
Fuck you and your mother
Had to be Puerto rican nigga when they not trying to be black they trying hard af to be excepted by whites .homie should be shot in the mouth.cocksucker
Beyoncé is a no-talent robot. But the American people are like, “yeah, sign me up for that sh1t!”
Beyoncé can suck a bag of donkey d1cks for all I care – I am so tired of hearing about her.
She’s simplistic and watered down. Yawn.
And even auto-correct on iOS corrects the effing accent in her name.
Come on, people. Wake up.
-getting off soapbox-
THIS WOULDN’T BE AN ISSUE IF THE POLICE WEREN’T MURDERING BLACK PEOPLE AND STOPPING BY WENDY’S BEFORE THEY GO HOME TO THEIR FAMILIES WITH NO FEAR OF JAIL.
Officer Rick Ross is a member of the Miami Police Union. why would he go against Jigga mans wifey like this???
Thats what the bitch deserves. Shame on all black people that support this racist biaatch. Here is a lyrics from the song formation that its “dedicated” to Black Lives Matter: “When he fuck me good I take his ass to Red Lobster (cause I slay)” ~ Beyonce
Sad part about it those movements paved the way for the people to look at the country and treat everyone fairly and not target minorities.Now u have a minority leader of the FOP shooting Beyonce down and I can assure you he does not know the history of the Black Panthers.
Fuck beyonce