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The one who waved a Palestinian flag throughout Kendrick Lamar’s halftime present efficiency on the Tremendous Bowl has been recognized as the person Antonio Brown allegedly shot final month.
Brown reportedly has a warrant out for his arrest for tried homicide, and Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu informed investigators a bullet grazed his neck, in response to The Related Press.
The AP talked about that Nantambu was the individual chosen to be a backup dancer for Lamar throughout the rapper’s efficiency however as an alternative took the chance to indicate his assist for Sudan and Palestine.
Nantambu was arrested Thursday on expenses of resisting an officer and disturbing the peace by interruption of a lawful meeting, revealing a hyperlink between the incidents.
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Antonio Brown allegedly shot a Tremendous Bowl halftime present protester. (Getty Pictures)
“In coordination with the Nationwide Soccer League, troopers discovered that Nantambu had permission to be on the sector throughout the efficiency however didn’t have permission to display as he did,” Louisiana State Police mentioned.
The alleged incident between Brown and Nantambu occurred exterior a boxing occasion in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood. The warrant reportedly listed the incident as occurring Could 16.
Fox Information Digital beforehand reported that Brown gave the impression to be concerned in a number of movies on social media in an incident at a Miami boxing occasion that night time.
One video confirmed Brown showing to battle in a parking zone as a crowd moved towards an alley. Then, a gunshot appeared to ring out, sending spectators working in the other way.
Brown was noticed in handcuffs being led to the again of a police cruiser.
When Nantambu’s hyperlink to the incidents surfaced on-line, Brown responded.
“That man is a fraud, liar, stalker & prison. He was arrested in 2022 for stealing 6 figures of knickknack from me. He then confirmed up at my present at rolling loud in 2023 attempting to assault me,” Brown wrote on X.
“Then in Could he snuck right into a gate on the occasion and got here proper as much as me attempting to steal from me and threaten my life, Media hasn’t informed this story but… as an alternative portray a false image of me. That night time I used to be preventing for my life together with his intentions.”
Antonio Brown attends a celebration at Imaginative and prescient Lounge March 4, 2022, Atlanta. (Prince Williams/Wireimage)
Brown’s warrant in Miami-Dade County lists a cost of tried homicide with a gun and requires Brown to put up a $10,000 bond and stay beneath home arrest pending trial, The Washington Put up reported earlier this month.
A Miami Police Division spokesman beforehand informed Fox Information Digital the division obtained an alert of pictures fired at round 3 a.m. Could 17. Police initiated an investigation, no arrests have been made and nobody was injured, the spokesman mentioned on the time.
The protest passed off with President Donald Trump in attendance on the recreation, marking the primary time a sitting president has attended a Tremendous Bowl. Trump beforehand floated the thought of the U.S. “taking up” the Gaza Strip.
“I do see a long-term possession place, and I see it bringing nice stability to that a part of the Center East and perhaps the whole Center East,” Trump mentioned, including it’s a call he didn’t make frivolously.
Throughout Lamar’s efficiency of his new hit “television off,” Nantambu held the flag on prime of a prop automotive after which ran onto the sector with the flag.
Safety guards seize a protester holding a Palestinian flag with the phrases “Gaza” and “Sudan” as rapper Kendrick Lamar performs throughout the Tremendous Bowl at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans Feb. 9, 2025. (Chandan Khanna/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
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Nantambu wandered forwards and backwards on the sector earlier than safety guards arrived and dragged him off of the sector.
Fox Information’ Digital’s Jackson Thompson, Ryan Gaydos and The Related Press contributed to this report.
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