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Giuliani blasts Beyoncé for ‘attack’ on cops
By Sophia Rosenbaum
February 8, 2016 | 9:56am
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani blasted Beyoncé’s halftime performance at the Super Bowl — accusing her of using her platform to “attack police officers.”
“This is football, not Hollywood,” Giuliani fumed Monday morning on “FOX & Friends.”
At Sunday night’s big game, the singer used her moments in the spotlight to highlight racial tension — with her dancers wearing berets similar to those worn by the Black Panthers.
Prior to the performance, some of Beyoncé’s dancers posed for a picture with their fists raised to the sky, evoking the black power salute by two prominent athletes during the 1968 Olympic Games.
They also snapped a similar shot while holding a sign that said “Justice 4 Mario Woods,” referring to the 26-year-old man shot dead in December by San Francisco police.
“I thought that she used it as a platform to attack police officers, who are the people who protect her and protect us and keep us alive,” Giuliani said. “And what we should be doing, in the African-American community and in all communities, is build up respect for police officers and focus on the fact that when something does go wrong, OK, we’ll work on that.”
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