Beyonce‘s set a this year’s Super Bowl continues to pull in criticism from those who claim she used it to “race bait.”
Today, the latest group of people to join the anti-‘Formation’ brigade is the New York Police Department.
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The NYPD detectives union had this to say about the entertainer’s Black Panther-inspired performance:
Michael Palladino president of the Detectives’ Endowment Association:
She should direct her message where it’s needed most, and that’s in the ’hood, because that’s where it all takes place. So if the Black Lives Matter movement really wants to make a difference, they should pour the medicine directly on the wound. Get into the ghetto, the ’hood. Get to the bottom of why people of colour prey on other people of colour in their own neighbourhoods.
His comment was met with criticism by those who outlined the differences between racially motivated police brutality and crimes committed by civilians against other civilians of the same race in impoverished neighbourhoods.
Monifa Bandele, a spokeswoman for Communities United for Police Reform, argued:
The reality is that when civilians kill or brutalize other civilians, they face legal accountability. But police officers typically do not and often don’t even face meaningful discipline by their departments.
Beyonce is yet to respond.