halftime performance: It features a boy in a hoodie dancing in front of riot cops, "Stop shooting us!" graffiti and Beyonce atop a New Orleans cop car sinking in Katrina floodwaters, according to Huffington Post Canada. But the halftime performance pushed it into overdrive. "I thought it was really outrageous that she used it as a platform to attack police officers," fumed former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani on Fox News. "You're talking to Middle America when you have the Super Bowl." Congressman Peter King chimed in on Facebook that "Beyoncé may be a gifted entertainer but no one should really care what she thinks about any serious issue confronting our nation." Even Toronto city councilor Jim Karygiannis joined the attack, calling her performance "disturbing" and wondering if "perhaps Immigration Minister John McCallum should have her investigated first " before she allowed to tour here. Actually, it took off on Twitter even beforehand with a #Boycott Beyonce hashtag response to the powerful imagery of her new music video, "Formation," released the day before the Super Bowl. And on February 16 there is a planned anti-Beyonce protest in front of NFL headquarters: "Are you offended as an American that Beyoncé pulled her race-baiting stunt at the Superbowl Do you agree that it was a slap in the face to law enforcement Come and let stand together. It not the first time she caused a stir on a big stage. Let tell the NFL we don't want hate speech & racism at the Superbowl ever again!" The goal here is to intimidate the pop star into silence because she holds power.
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