Antonio Brown is dragging the person accused of disrupting Kendrick Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl halftime present months after he accused the NFL star of making an attempt to kill him.

Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu of New Orleans was booked by Louisiana State Police on Thursday (June 26) on charges of resisting arrest and disturbing the peace.

The arrest stems from his unsanctioned protest throughout Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl LIX efficiency at Caesars Superdome on February 9, the place he ran throughout the sector waving a Sudanese flag that learn “Sudan and Free Gaza.”

Though he was initially cleared by the New Orleans police, state authorities reopened the case and issued a warrant. Nantambu turned himself in and, as of now, has not publicly confirmed whether or not he has authorized illustration.

The NFL responded by banning Nantambu from all future league occasions, citing the unauthorized nature of his protest regardless of his preliminary clearance to be on the sector as a backup performer.

Antonio Brown weighed in on Nantambu’s arrest, calling him a fraud and doubled down on his personal innocence.

“That man is a fraud, liar, stalker & prison,” Brown said after studying of Nantambu’s arrest.

The weird connection comes simply weeks after Nantambu accused the previous NFL broad receiver of shooting at him during a chaotic scene outside a celebrity boxing match in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood on May 16.

In keeping with police stories and surveillance footage, Brown allegedly punched Nantambu, grabbed a safety guard’s firearm, and fired two photographs whereas chasing him.

Nantambu, who was grazed by a bullet, later advised investigators he feared for his life.

“He thought he would get a free kill… He performs gangster and performs the police on the similar time, then he blames CTE,” Nantambu mentioned, referencing Florida’s “Stand Your Floor” regulation.

The 2 males have a protracted and bitter historical past. Nantambu beforehand accused Brown of stealing a customized pendant throughout a visit to Dubai in 2022. That dispute led to a lawsuit and an almost $1 million judgment in Nantambu’s favor, although the case was finally dismissed.

Brown, who’s out on a $10,000 bond, faces an tried homicide cost.

“He snuck right into a gate on the occasion and got here proper as much as me making an attempt to steal from me and threaten my life. Media hasn’t advised this story but, as a substitute portray a false image of me,” Antonio Brown mentioned. “That night time I used to be preventing for my life along with his intentions.”

Nantambu’s arrest on June 26 has now tied each males to high-profile NFL-related incidents—one involving a halftime protest and the opposite a violent confrontation.

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