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The idiosyncratic who waved a Palestinian flag during Kendrick Lamar's halftime amusement show astatine the Super Bowl has been identified arsenic the antheral Antonio Brown allegedly changeable past month.
Brown reportedly has a warrant retired for his apprehension for attempted murder, and Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu told investigators a slug grazed his neck, according to The Associated Press.
The AP mentioned that Nantambu was the idiosyncratic selected to beryllium a backup dancer for Lamar during the rapper's show but alternatively took the accidental to amusement his enactment for Sudan and Palestine.
Nantambu was arrested Thursday connected charges of resisting an serviceman and disturbing the bid by interruption of a lawful assembly, revealing a nexus betwixt the incidents.
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Antonio Brown allegedly changeable a Super Bowl halftime amusement protester. (Getty Images)
"In coordination with the National Football League, troopers learned that Nantambu had support to beryllium connected the tract during the show but did not person support to show arsenic helium did," Louisiana State Police said.
The alleged incidental betwixt Brown and Nantambu happened extracurricular a boxing lawsuit successful Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood. The warrant reportedly listed the incidental arsenic occurring May 16.
Fox News Digital previously reported that Brown appeared to beryllium progressive successful respective videos connected societal media successful an incidental astatine a Miami boxing lawsuit that night.
One video showed Brown appearing to combat successful a parking batch arsenic a assemblage moved toward an alley. Then, a gunshot appeared to ringing out, sending spectators moving successful the other direction.
Brown was spotted successful handcuffs being led to the backmost of a constabulary cruiser.
When Nantambu's nexus to the incidents surfaced online, Brown responded.
"That feline is simply a fraud, liar, stalker & criminal. He was arrested successful 2022 for stealing 6 figures of jewelry from me. He past showed up astatine my amusement astatine rolling large successful 2023 trying to battle me," Brown wrote connected X.
"Then successful May helium snuck into a gross astatine the lawsuit and came close up to maine trying to bargain from maine and endanger my life, Media hasn’t told this communicative yet… alternatively coating a mendacious representation of me. That nighttime I was warring for my beingness with his intentions."
Antonio Brown attends a enactment astatine Vision Lounge March 4, 2022, Atlanta. (Prince Williams/Wireimage)
Brown's warrant successful Miami-Dade County lists a complaint of attempted execution with a weapon and calls for Brown to station a $10,000 enslaved and stay nether location apprehension pending trial, The Washington Post reported earlier this month.
A Miami Police Department spokesperson antecedently told Fox News Digital the section received an alert of shots fired astatine astir 3 a.m. May 17. Police initiated an investigation, nary arrests were made and nary 1 was injured, the spokesperson said astatine the time.
The protestation took spot with President Donald Trump successful attendance astatine the game, marking the archetypal clip a sitting president has attended a Super Bowl. Trump antecedently floated the thought of the U.S. "taking over" the Gaza Strip.
"I bash spot a semipermanent ownership position, and I spot it bringing large stableness to that portion of the Middle East and possibly the entire Middle East," Trump said, adding it’s a determination helium didn’t marque lightly.
During Lamar's show of his caller deed "tv off," Nantambu held the emblem connected apical of a prop car and past ran onto the tract with the flag.
Security guards drawback a protester holding a Palestinian emblem with the words "Gaza" and "Sudan" arsenic rapper Kendrick Lamar performs during the Super Bowl astatine Caesars Superdome successful New Orleans Feb. 9, 2025. (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)
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Nantambu wandered backmost and distant connected the tract earlier information guards arrived and dragged him disconnected of the field.
Fox News' Digital's Jackson Thompson, Ryan Gaydos and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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