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BEYware Of The Police, Beyoncé

Law enforcement officials have a brutal message for Beyoncé.

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It seems as if Queen Bey is falling off of her thrown as she isn’t the highest source of authority in the BeyHive anymore — the police are. Many can argue that as of recently Beyoncé's latest songs, such as "Formation," are controversial, anti-police songs. After releasing the song, Beyoncé set the record straight by expressing her feelings towards law enforcement and black empowerment by stating that she is “against police brutality and injustice.”

When she preformed her song during the Super Bowl half-time show, she and her background dancers put on quite a show for us as they referenced the Black Panther Party. However, after kicking off her world-wide Formation Tour, Beyoncé soon realized that she’s in need of police at her tour venues and that she’s living in a “can’t live with the police, can’t live without them” type world.

Now I’m not the biggest Beyoncé fan in the world, (however my best friend is her biggest fan-she aspires to be you, Bey. If you’re ever reading this please let me or my bestie Kayla know). Nor am I familiar with a lot of her music, but I do know her hit single Formation very well, as it’s something I like to blast while I’m jumping around in my room or driving around, jammin' with a bunch of my girlfriends. Yes, the song is empowering, which is something Beyoncé strives to be but it seems as if her anti-police propaganda has come around to bite her in her booty.

Obviously a Beyoncé’s concert would consist of thousands of screaming girls, rowdy fans and a boat load security staff to keep everyone under control, as well as keep Beyoncé safe, right? Wrong. Local city police officers in Pittsburg, who believe Beyoncé is anti-police, planned to boycott her concert at Heinz Field on May 31 as do many other police officers across the country. It’s hard to blame them for their actions though. Why should police officers be willing to work for someone and better yet protect someone as well as a community of people who claim to be against them and disregard them in their music?

In regards to the boycott, Pittsburg Sheriff David Clark stated, “How ironic that a cop-hating performer realizes she needs the American law enforcement officer to pull off her concert,” and his statement speaks nothing but the truth. Of course, there will be some sort of enforcement at each of Beyoncé's concerts.

In regards to her Pittsburg show, many off-duty officers were forced to work the venue due to the large amount of police officers boycotting. Maybe Bey’s next hit single will be pro-police and catch us even more off guard than when she dropped her latest album "Lemonade."

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