Beyoncé, a global superstar who has mobilized fans around the Black Lives Matter movement without a single protest speech, has drawn the ire of a police group that says it will refuse to attend her coming concert in Miami.
The Miami Fraternal Order of Police said in a statement that it had voted to let its members boycott the show, scheduled for April 27, because it believed Beyoncé had used this year’s Super Bowl halftime show “to divide Americans by promoting the Black Panthers.” The group called for other law enforcement organizations to boycott her concerts as well.
During the halftime show, Beyoncé and her dancers wore outfits widely perceived to be reminiscent of the Black Panther movement, down to the black berets. Afterward, her dancers also joined Black Lives Matter activists in holding up a signdemanding justice for Mario Woods, a 26-year-old black manwho was shot more than 15 timesby police officers in San Francisco after he slashed a stranger in the face…….
