Around 400 dancers made Kendrick Lamar’s show during the half -time break of the Super Bowl on February 9th in New Orleans a spectacle worldwide.
Only those who did not get a beer out of the fridge in between could see an action with a guerrilla character within the choreographed mega custody.
Kendrick Lamar at Super Bowl:
Towards the end of the show, a (supposed) member of Lamars Live crew pulled a banner for the song “TV Off”. The flags of Palestine and Sudan were assembled on it. The words “Sudan” and “Gaza” showed letters made of fabric.
The protest dancer left his stage position with the car decoration, ran over the field and waved the flag. Security forces followed him and finally brought him down. From there, he was escorted by the field as soon as possible.
Zül-Qarnain Nantambu was
CNN initially reported that the demonstrator was officially not named by the authorities. But then the artist Zül-Qarnain Nantambu living in New Orleans gave a statement compared to the TV station that he was the stadium protest.
The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) meanwhile announced that Nantambu has not expected any further consequences. “Neither an arrest nor a summon was expressed,” it said in a corresponding press release. It was still not clear whether the flag swivel was really a member of the dance crew or a running -off rider in the same dress code.
A spokesman for the NFL praised the security forces for “arresting” Nantamabu, and said in a statement on Sunday: “The person hid the item in his possession and only revealed him late on the show. Nobody who was involved in the production knew about the person’s intention ”. Football League expressed a nationwide ban on stadium for him.
“Freedom fighter”
Jay-Z’s music and media conglomerate Roc Nation, which produced the “Halftime Show”, confirmed this report in a separate explanation. There it was explained with a hint of irony that this stunt was “neither planned nor part of the production and was never rehearsed”.
In the meantime there is a short statement from Nantambu in various US media. He describes himself as a “freedom fighter”. However, his flag campaign would have been “not political”.
Instead, he wanted to show “solidarity with the people who suffer over there. Compared to what you go through, we live a luxury life, ”he said. “I wanted to show that we are all united and that they are loved!”