Rudy Giuliani Criticizes Beyoncé's Super Bowl 50 Halftime Performance

Feb 13, 2016, 11:04

The halftime show - seen by an estimated 112 million people - is drawing praise from her fans and consternation from critics.

"For months, police officers have been working long hours, sacrificing time with their families and risking their personal safety to make sure the Super Bowl can be enjoyed by our entire nation without fear", one commentator wrote on Beyonce's Facebook page.

While Beyonce and her camp haven't confirmed the nod, her backup dancers donned Black Panther-esque berets and all-black garb for the show.

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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. She chose part of a song she has just released which takes police to task for the deaths of young black youths. Another particularly moving scene is at the end of the video in which Beyonce sinks the New Orleans police vehicle as she goes under with it. "I like my negro nose with Jackson 5 nostrils", Beyoncé raps on the new song.

Beyonce only made a brief comment about the show to "Entertainment Tonight": "I wanted people to feel proud and have love for themselves", she said. And I'm not just talking about history books or critical race theory. The move was a reference to the "hands up, don't shoot" anthem of the Black Lives Matter movement.

But not everyone appreciated Beyoncé's performance.

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While it wasn't abundantly clear at the time, Beyonce's performance of her new single, "Formation", partially was a tribute to the women of the Black Panther Party, according to her stylist Marni Senofonte. Without getting too deep into it, there have been some controversial situations over the past several years with police brutality in America.

But some people have complained that Beyonce injected politics into a sports event.

Meanwhile, FOX Sports reports that the former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was also displeased with the performance describing Beyonce's performance as outrageous.

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