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Immediately calls for a boycott of the beyonce concert
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/...boycott-beyonc-s-show-at-marlins-park-8260866
Earlier this month, fresh off a scintillating — and controversial — Super Bowl performance, Beyoncé announced she would kick off her 2016 Formation tour in Miami at Marlins Park. Tickets sold out almost immediately.
Now, the outspoken chief of Miami's police union says his officers plan to boycott the show because of the superstar's supposedly “anti-police message” in that Super Bowl.
Fraternal Order of Police President Javier Ortiz says he believes Beyoncé's performance showed allegiance to the Black Panther Party and a lack of support for law enforcement, referencing a scene from Beyoncé's “Formation” video that shows police in riot gear with their hands up in surrender to a little boy dancing in a hoodie.
“I challenge Beyoncé to review the 86-page report written by the United States Department of Justice on the death investigation of Michael Brown,” Ortiz wrote in news release late last night. “Hands up, don't shoot was built on a lie.”
Ortiz is known for creating or embroiling himself in controversy, using his Twitter to call Tamir Rice “a thug,” doxxing civilians who film police misconduct, and suggesting an assistant police chief who didn't do the Pledge of Allegiance to his liking was probably Muslim.
Although Ortiz is right about the “hands up” mantra, he should have fact checked his statement before rebuking Queen Bey for perpetuating falsehoods. In his news release, Ortiz wrote that “while Beyoncé physically saluted the 50th anniversary of the Black Panthers movement” he chooses to salute NYPD Officer Richard Rainey “who succumbed to his injuries on Feb. 16, 2016 from being shot by two Black Panthers.” However, the shooting involving Rainey happened back in 1981 and that Rainey died almost a year ago, in March 2015.
It's also unclear if Ortiz is calling for police to boycott the Beyoncé concert as civilian ticket-buyers or if he's suggesting officers avoid taking overtime to work the detail that night, as is common for large shows and events. In Tampa, where Beyoncé is scheduled perform two days after her Miami show, not a single cop has signed up to work the concert, but the Tampa Police Department says it will have to staff the event regardless to keep concertgoers safe, according to Fox 13 News.
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/...boycott-beyonc-s-show-at-marlins-park-8260866
Earlier this month, fresh off a scintillating — and controversial — Super Bowl performance, Beyoncé announced she would kick off her 2016 Formation tour in Miami at Marlins Park. Tickets sold out almost immediately.
Now, the outspoken chief of Miami's police union says his officers plan to boycott the show because of the superstar's supposedly “anti-police message” in that Super Bowl.
Fraternal Order of Police President Javier Ortiz says he believes Beyoncé's performance showed allegiance to the Black Panther Party and a lack of support for law enforcement, referencing a scene from Beyoncé's “Formation” video that shows police in riot gear with their hands up in surrender to a little boy dancing in a hoodie.
“I challenge Beyoncé to review the 86-page report written by the United States Department of Justice on the death investigation of Michael Brown,” Ortiz wrote in news release late last night. “Hands up, don't shoot was built on a lie.”
Ortiz is known for creating or embroiling himself in controversy, using his Twitter to call Tamir Rice “a thug,” doxxing civilians who film police misconduct, and suggesting an assistant police chief who didn't do the Pledge of Allegiance to his liking was probably Muslim.
Although Ortiz is right about the “hands up” mantra, he should have fact checked his statement before rebuking Queen Bey for perpetuating falsehoods. In his news release, Ortiz wrote that “while Beyoncé physically saluted the 50th anniversary of the Black Panthers movement” he chooses to salute NYPD Officer Richard Rainey “who succumbed to his injuries on Feb. 16, 2016 from being shot by two Black Panthers.” However, the shooting involving Rainey happened back in 1981 and that Rainey died almost a year ago, in March 2015.
It's also unclear if Ortiz is calling for police to boycott the Beyoncé concert as civilian ticket-buyers or if he's suggesting officers avoid taking overtime to work the detail that night, as is common for large shows and events. In Tampa, where Beyoncé is scheduled perform two days after her Miami show, not a single cop has signed up to work the concert, but the Tampa Police Department says it will have to staff the event regardless to keep concertgoers safe, according to Fox 13 News.
