President of Miami Fraternal Order of Police accused Bey of using her 'Formation' performance at Super Bowl to promote 'the Black Panthers and her antipolice message.'
- Feb 19, 2016
AceShowbiz - Beyonce Knowles upset cops everywhere with her Black Panther-inspired performance at the Super Bowl 50 earlier this month. Now, a police union in Miami has announced that they will boycott the singer's concert at the city's Marlins Stadium on April 26.
Javier Ortiz, president of Miami Fraternal Order of Police, explained the boycott in a statement issued on Thursday, February 18. He accused Bey of using her "Formation" performance at the big game "to divide Americans by promoting the Black Panthers and her antipolice message."
Ortiz also urged other authorities across the country to join the Bey boycott. "We ask all law enforcement labor organizations to join our boycott across the country and to boycott all of her concerts," he added.
Beyonce's Super Bowl appearance has also angered a lot of people, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who called the show an "attack on police officers," and some people who planned an anti-Beyonce rally outside the NFL headquarters in Manhattan a few days ago, but failed to show up.
Neither Beyonce nor her camp has responded to Ortiz's announcement. This isn't the first time cops have tried to fight back artists for being critical of them. Prior to this, police organizations across the country threatened to boycott Quentin Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight" after the director called police officers "murderers" during a police brutality protest in New York last year. However, nothing really happened. The film opened on Christmas Day as planned without incident and went on to gross about $132 million worldwide.
