Police call for boycott of Beyonce after controversial Super Bowl show and Formation video

Police across America have slammed the singer's performance

POLICE have called on their colleagues to boycott Beyonce over the superstar's controversial Super Bowl half-time show.The 34-year-old's performance, which featured dancers dressed like militant group the Black Panthers, has been branded "anti-police".

And her new music video Formation came under attack for a scene with Black Lives Matter protesters in front of cops in riot gear.
The words “stop shooting us” is spray-painted on a wall behind the police.

The "Black Panthers" at the Super Bowl half-time show

Javier Ortiz of Miami's police union said Beyonce used the Super Bowl show to "divide Americans by promoting the Black Panthers".
He added: “While Beyonce physically saluted the 50th anniversary of the Black Panthers movement at the Super Bowl, I salute NYPD Officer Richard Rainey, who succumbed to his injuries on 16 February 2016 from being shot by two Black Panthers who he had pulled over in a traffic stop.”
Tampa Police Benevolent Association President Vincent Gericitano said the association was "disgusted" with the Super Bowl show and "equally disgusted" with her new “politically charged” music video.

And Ed Mullins, the president of New York’s Sergeants Benevolent Association, also hit out at the Single Ladies singer.
He said: “Law enforcement across the country has to make a statement that we’re not bad guys and she’s got to stop portraying us as bad guys.”
Last year US police called for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino's films.

Police unions have called for their members to not listen to Beyonce's music

The Hateful Eight director sparked outrage when he spoke at an anti-police-brutality rally in New York on October 24.
He said: "I'm a human being with a conscience. And if you believe there's murder going on then you need to rise up and stand up against it. I'm here to say I'm on the side of the murdered."
This led to police in New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles all declaring their plans to boycott the director.