A Miami police union has now announced its plans to boycott Beyoncé’s concert in April on the grounds that she used the Super Bowl to spread an anti-police message.
The Miami Fraternal Order of Police announced hat the organization would be boycotting the singer’s April 26th concert.
Miami FOP President Javier Ortiz posted images supporting the boycott.
Ortiz wrote a letter on behalf of the police union to ask other police unions to also boycott Beyonce’s concerts.
‘The fact that Beyoncé used this year’s Super Bowl to divide Americans by promoting the Black Panthers and her antipolice message shows how she does not support law enforcement,’ Ortiz said in a statement.
‘I was one of the tens of thousands of law enforcement officers that didn’t watch the Super Bowl halftime show out of respect for our profession.
‘On another day while flipping through the television channels, I did mistakenly watch her “Formation” video that shows scenes of a young black boy dancing in front of police in riot gear, who signal their surrender by putting their hands up, referencing the “Hands up, don’t shoot” anthem of the Black Lives Matter movement inspired by the 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
‘I challenge Beyoncé to review the eighty-six page report written by the United States Department of Justice on the death investigation of Michael Brown.’
