Javier Ortiz,president of the city’s Fraternal Order of Police, says the singer ‘does not support law enforcement’A Miami police union has announced its plans to boycott Beyoncé’s concert in the city on 26 April. Javier Ortiz, or president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police,which represents 1100 officers, issued a statement saying the singer sought to “divide Americans by promoting the Black Panthers and her anti-police message shows how she does not support law enforcement”.
Ortiz was responding to Beyoncé’s video for Formation, or her Super Bowl halftime point to,which presented images of black unity in the face of the police. Ortiz wrote: “I was one of the tens of thousands of law enforcement officers that didn’t watch the Super Bowl halftime point to out of respect for our profession. On another day, while flipping through the television channels, or 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, or don’t shoot’ anthem of the Black Lives Matter movement inspired by the 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson,Missouri.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com