The Tremendous Bowl halftime performer who allegedly displayed a flag throughout Kendrick Lamar’s halftime efficiency, which learn the message “Sudan and Free Gaza,” was arrested by the Louisiana State Police on Thursday.
Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, 41, of New Orleans, allegedly displayed the flag and did not adjust to safety on the scene, who informed him to cease.
He was allowed to be on the sphere, however not allowed to show the flag, police mentioned.
A protestor holds a Palestinian flag with the phrases “Gaza” and “Sudan” as US rapper Kendrick Lamar performs throughout Tremendous Bowl LIX Chiefs vs Eagles Apple Music Halftime Present at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, February 9, 2025. (Picture by Chandan Khanna / AFP) (Picture by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP through Getty Photos)
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The incident occurred on Feb. 9 when New Orleans hosted Tremendous Bowl LIX on the Caesars Superdome.
Louisiana State Police mentioned that Nantambu allegedly “deviated from his assigned function, retrieved a Sudanese flag bearing the message ‘Sudan and Free Gaza,’ and disrupted the halftime present by operating throughout the sphere with the flag.”
“Safety and legislation enforcement personnel on web site shortly acknowledged the unauthorized motion and apprehended the performer after he refused to adjust to their instructions to cease,” police mentioned.
Following the occasion, an arrest warrant was obtained for Nantambu by way of the Orleans Parish Legal District Court docket, police mentioned.
Nantambu, together with his lawyer, surrendered himself on Thursday to police beneath prices of resisting an officer and disturbing the peace by interruption of a lawful meeting.
