A police union in Miami voted in favor of all law enforcement officers boycotting Beyonce’s April concert in the city, claiming the singer promoted an anti-police message in her new music video and during her performance at the Super Bowl halftime show. 
 
 Javier Ortiz, president of Miami Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #20, which represents 1,100 officers, wrote in a press release that he didn't watch Beyoncé's performance during halftime "out of respect for our profession." The performance saluted the 50th anniversary of the Black Panthers and has been criticized by some as anti-police. 
 
 "The Miami Fraternal Order of Police has voted to have all law enforcement officers boycott Beyoncé’s concert which is being held at the Miami Marlins Stadium on Wednesday, April 26, 2016," Ortiz said in a statement. "The fact that Beyoncé used this year’s Super Bowl to divide Americans by promoting the Black Panthers and her antipolice message shows how she does not support law enforcement." The organization urged other law enforcement agencies around the country to do the same. 
 
 Ortiz said he had "mistakenly" seen the video for Beyoncé's new song, "Formation," which features an African-American boy dancing in front of police in riot gear, Beyoncé sitting on top of a New Orleans police car that is sinking, and graffiti that reads "Stop shooting us." 
 
 Ortiz said in an email to The Huffington Post that the union was urging officers not to work the concert. He also sent HuffPost a meme featuring Beyoncé and her husband, Jay-Z, suggesting that Bey was hypocritical because she has received police detail in the past. 
 
 Javier Ortiz/Miami Fraternal Order of Police The president of a Miami police union sent HuffPost this meme featuring Beyoncé and her husband, Jay-Z. 
 
 Maj. Delrish Moss, a spokesman for the Miami Police Department, said that Ortiz and the Fraternal Order of Police did not speak for the police department or the city, and that the venue where Beyoncé is scheduled to perform, Marlins Park, would be protected. 
 
 "Right now the union president has his First Amendment right to say whatever he wants to say, but that doesn't always translate to reality. As far as we see, there's no indication that anything that is said there will translate into police officers not working the job," Moss said. 
 
 A spokesperson for the Miami-Dade Police Department said multiple law enforcement agencies usually staff big concerts, and that MDPD was affiliated with the Police Benevolent Association, another union. 
 
 While Fox 13 reported Wednesday that no police officers in Tampa, Florida, had signed up to staff Queen B's concert there, Tampa Police spokesman Steve Hegarty told HuffPost on Thursday that officers had indeed signed up for the event, which he said would be fully staffed. 
 
 Vincent Gericitano, president of the Tampa Police Benevolent Association, said that the union was "disgusted" with Beyoncé's Super Bowl performance as well as the "Formation" video. 
 
 "We urge all law enforcement officers to boycott the purchase of Beyoncé's music and the purchase of tickets for her performances," Gericitano said in a statement. He added that while the union supported officers who did not want to volunteer to staff Beyoncé's Tampa concert, he was "confident" that Tampa police officers would police the event with "courtesy, professionalism and respect." 
 
 Earlier this week, a Tennessee police sheriff who reportedly heard someone fire six gunshots outside his house said Beyoncé was responsible. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has also criticized Beyoncé. 
 
 There was also a protest against Beyoncé's Super Bowl performance planned Wednesday outside of NFL headquarters in New York City, but barely anyone showed up. 
 
 It's not the first time police have tried to boycott a musician for being critical of them. In 2000, two New York police groups urged officers to boycott a Bruce Springsteen concert after he released the song "American Skin (41 Shots)," about the police killing of Amadou Diallo. 
 
 This article has been updated with comments from Ortiz, the Miami Police Department, the Tampa Police Department, and the Tampa Police Benevolent Association. 
 
 Also on HuffPost: ||||| Story highlights A Miami police union is calling for officers to boycott Beyoncé's upcoming tour 
 
 (CNN) A Miami police union announced Thursday that it was urging a nationwide boycott by law enforcement labor organizations of Beyoncé's forthcoming world tour, which is slated to begin in the city April 27 at Marlins Park. 
 
 In a statement , Javier Ortiz, president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, accused the singer of using her recent Super Bowl performance "to divide Americans by promoting the Black Panthers and her antipolice message." 
 
 The video for Beyoncé's new song "Formation" includes images referencing the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and shows a young African-American boy in a hoodie dancing in front of police officers in riot gear. During her halftime set at the Super Bowl, backup dancers were dressed in outfits reminiscent of the 1960s-era Black Panthers. 
 
 Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was a vocal critic, saying on Fox News the next day he found the performance "outrageous." 
 
 On Thursday, Ortiz wrote that he "was one of the tens of thousands of law enforcement officers that didn't watch the Super Bowl halftime show out of respect for our profession," but that "on another day while flipping through the television channels, I did mistakenly watch her 'Formation' video.'" 
 
 Read More ||||| If you're still struggling with your feelings about Beyoncé, just take a minute and listen to Jessica Williams. 
 
 Beyoncé's Super Bowl halftime show and "Formation" music video (which dropped the day before the game) were incredible blends of music, choreography and technical skill. But some critics had issues with the singer's political and racially charged performance after the fact. 
 
 Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams took on Beyoncé's detractors during Monday night's show, explaining the cultural significance (and logic) of the superstar's halftime performance. 
 
 For example: Some of the singer's so-called "haters" felt that bringing race into a Super Bowl show was unnecessary. But "race was brought in because Beyoncé was brought in. And brace yourself, you might want to sit down for this — but Beyoncé is black," Williams said, adding, "As a black person, you walk around every day constantly reminded that you are black. We're more likely to get paid less, we're more likely to get sent to prison and we're more likely to win a dance competition. What? It's not all bad." 
 
 Williams also touched on how the singer's latest single focused on black female empowerment but also commented on race relations in America as a whole. 
 
 "Beyoncé calls out police brutality and the constant fear that black people have of the police. She even threw back to Hurricane Katrina. The Black Girl Magic in that video was out of control. She was like a beautiful, black Dumbledore, but wearing a really nice weave and $3000 worth of Gucci," she said. 
 
 The segment ends with footage of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani making a comment that the Super Bowl performances should be "for middle America" — and therefore "wholesome entertainment." 
 
 Williams' response: "You know what's in the middle of America? Ferguson, Missouri." ||||| Beyoncé’s show-stealing, politically charged Super Bowl contribution has widely received rave reviews and praise for using such a platform to draw attention to an important cause. However, a group of people have taken such offence to it that they’ve organised an “Anti-Beyoncé Protest Rally”. 
 
 The planned protest was posted on Eventbrite, and is scheduled to take place next week outside the NFL’s headquarters in New York. 
 
 The justification for the rally is a short summary of points asking: “Are you offended as an American that Beyoncé pulled her race-baiting stunt at the Super Bowl? Do you agree that it was a slap in god face to law enforcement? Do you agree that the Black Panthers was/is a hate group which should not be glorified?” 
 
 Organisers signed off with a message for the NFL: “Let’s tell the NFL we don’t want hate speech and racism at the Super Bowl ever again” before including the hashtags “#BoycottBeyoncé, #BlueLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter. 
 
 In a move reminiscent of when the singer unexpectedly dropped a self-titled album in 2013, Beyoncé surprised fans and the internet on Saturday with an unannounced video and single: “Formation”. The stirring video contains scenes including the 34-year-old sat atop of a New Orleans police car submerged in flooding water and a young boy dancing in front of police officers who later surrender their hands in the air shortly after the camera pans to a graffitied wall which reads: “Stop shooting us.” 
 
 Just a day later she performed the song when joining Coldplay for the Super Bowl half-time show on Sunday. The singer’s dance troupes were dressed in black berets and leather as homage to The Black Panthers party and danced in an X-shape, possibly a reference to activist Malcolm X. 
 
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 In response to the protest, a counter “Anti-Anti-Beyoncé Protest Rally” has been announced and calls for supporters of the singer’s performance to “Get In Formation”. The event is scheduled for the same time at the same place as the other protest and the page asks: “Don’t let anyone make her [Beyoncé’s] powerful statement about the value of Black life be overshadowed by those who don’t believe that our lives matter.” 
 
 The Independent has contacted a representative for Beyoncé for comment. ||||| Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images 
 
 I’m sure I’m not the only one for whom a question infinitely more pressing than “Broncos or Panthers?” was “Will she play it or won’t she?” As everyone and your football-loving grandfather now knows, yesterday afternoon Beyoncé stopped the world and dropped the gloriously provocative, instantly iconic video for her new single, “Formation,” the most explicitly political work she’s released to date. The visuals are timely and stirring: A dancing, hoodie-clad black boy commands a line of riot-geared police officers to put their hands up; Beyoncé double-flips the bird in an image that makes me want Alejandro Jodorowsky to direct a remake of Gone With the Wind; and in the powerful final scene, Bey, proud daughter of the American South (“My daddy Alabama, my ma Louisiana”), sinks atop a cop car into Katrina’s murky waters. 
 
 I was afraid she wouldn’t play this song. That she’d take a more conservative route in the face of an organization that has banned or fined women of color for stepping out of line. I prepared myself for the disappointing possibility that she might just show up to do a cameo for that truly inexplicable Coldplay duet, do a few “Single Ladies” moves, and go collect her check. But now I must ask for forgiveness for doubting the Queen even for a second, because not only did she play “Formation,” she fearlessly led a squad of women dressed as Black Panthers across the field at the goddamned Super Bowl, all while dressed like the democratically elected ruler of Rhythm Nation. New plan: If Trump gets elected, I’m not moving to Canada — I’m moving to Beyoncé’s utopia. 
 
 This motley hodgepodge of a Pepsi-sponsored Super Bowl Halftime Show had a theme, senior-prom-style, and that theme was “Past, Present, and Future.” Those three words do literally nothing to explain what Coldplay, Bruno Mars, and Beyoncé were doing on a stage together, save for throwing some gentle shade at Coldplay’s tired old Sgt. Pepper–does–Mardi Gras aesthetic. But I’ll go easy on the Fab Adequate Four, who took the stage first. The internet’s inevitable deluge of Coldplay-snark felt excessive; their performance was spirited and benignly feel-good, even if I am not exactly seeking out a copy of Chris Martin’s isolated vocal track. But the exuberant and anthemic quality of “Viva La Vida” worked in a context like this, and their disco-tinged recent single “Adventure of a Lifetime” suitably sustained the energy. Chris Martin seemed happy to be there and also seemed to be getting a great cardiovascular workout, complete with many squats. Were the children watching at home more scandalized by Janet Jackson’s boob or M.I.A.’s middle finger than they were by almost seeing Chris Martin’s butt crack? Only time will tell. 
 
 Then the preternaturally suave Bruno Mars came out in an expertly tailored Missy Elliott garbage bag and did a kind of B-Boy remix of “Uptown Funk.” Was this supposed to represent “the Past”? Or was this “the Present,” and considered an homage to the “this sick beat” part in Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” video? (I kid!) This was the precise moment I stopped asking questions about the performance’s theme, and also the precise moment I went back on my words that I would never tire of hearing “Uptown Funk.” 
 
 Beyoncé’s performance of “Formation” was a welcome gust of now-ness and relevance in a show so often bogged down with Greatest Hits montages and (see above) played-to-death radio smashes we never needed to hear again. Has anyone ever used the Super Bowl Halftime Show as a showcase for a song they released yesterday? The whole thing was a display of Beyoncé’s unimpeachable confidence in her own cultural influence and artistic vision, and the contrast of Coldplay and Bruno Mars emphasized just how radical that vision really is. Would the show have been more entertaining and thematically coherent if Beyoncé had been given the whole 15 minutes? Of course. But something about the contrast between the performers and her casual domination of that shared stage actually asserted her singularity in the pop landscape more dramatically than she might have on her own. There it was, plain to see for 100 million people: Chris Martin is left shark. Bruno Mars is right shark. Beyoncé is the nucleus. 
 
 After “Formation,” the performance inexplicably turned into an “In Memorium” montage set to the soaring strains of one of Coldplay’s best songs, “Fix You.” Sure, why not. Coldplay’s music has a kind of one-size-fits-all grandeur about it, so this audiovisual pairing made as much sense as any. “Fix You” on the jukebox at 3 a.m.? If you insist. “Fix You” at your bar mitzvah? Not mad. But Coldplay’s aural vagueness only served to put the precision of Beyoncé’s message into harsher relief. Sure, in the midst of the nation’s continued racial tensions, Coldplay’s fuzzy message that everything will be okay if we just (hold your cards high, audience) “BELIEVE IN LOVE” might have struck some as tone-deaf and silly. But Beyoncé, on the other hand, didn’t need to say it. Her song, her staging, her slaying delivered a harder-won message loud and clear. 
 
 As the crowd roared, we still did not get our answer to that other pressing question: “Yeah but why’s she here again?” And then we did: An ad for her just-announced Formation World Tour ran in one of the televisual year’s most sought-after commercial slots. You could almost see the ripple of lightbulbs going off across the globe: Beyoncé, that Black Bill Gates in the Making, basically just got paid to run an ad at the Super Bowl. It felt, elegantly, like an echo of that last line of “Formation”: “Always stay gracious, best revenge is your paper.” ||||| The Internet is not happy with Red Lobster. 
 
 Beyoncé dropped "Formation" on Saturday, and the brand new song included a reference to the seafood restaurant chain. "When he f**k me good, I take his ass to Red Lobster, cause I slay," she croons on the track. 
 
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 Not only did "Formation" quickly became a trending topic on Twitter, it also left people anxiously awaiting for a response from Red Lobster. They would have to have an amazing response, right? Right?! 
 
 Fast forward approximately eight hours later, when the chain's official Twitter account finally responded with a message that was, according to social media, a major flop. 
 
 "Cheddar Bey Biscuits" has a nice ring to it, don't you think?" the tweet read. 
 
 Disappointed Beyoncé fans immediately responded, writing things like, "You missed such an opportunity here, @redlobster. You could have done so much more," "Fire ur agency. Then fire everyone who hired them," and "Social media strategy: if this tweet was done during the #Formation firestorm, it'd get an okay. Hrs later? Nah." 
 
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 Many called out Red Lobster's super late and uncreative response with hilarious photos and gifs. 
 
 @redlobster yall had hours and this is what yall come up with? pic.twitter.com/DY2jO6y9Ti — E. (@ErykahTbh) February 7, 2016 
 
 @redlobster how dare you mess up this moment with this weak ass tweet. pic.twitter.com/4rw9fx3lex — RICKY SPANISH (@CreoleCornbread) February 7, 2016 
 
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 But our favorite was hands down this photo of a very unimpressed Blu Ivy Carter -- who makes a cameo in her mama's "Formation" music video -- and her father, Jay Z. 
 
 It's OK, Red Lobster. We can't all be Oreo. 
 
 Talk about a perfect social media response -- during the 2013 Super Bowl, no less! 
 
 One thing the Beyhive can look forward to, however, is the 34-year-old singer's highly-anticipated Pepsi Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show with Coldplay. As ET exclusively reported, Beyoncé will be performing her catchy new single for the first time ever when she takes the stage at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on Sunday. The big game between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers airs on CBS at 6:30 p.m ET/3:30 pm PT. 
 
 WATCH: Beyonce Will Perform 'Formation' During Super Bowl Halftime Show
– Red Lobster may be one of Beyonce's newest fans, but her Super Bowl halftime performance—which featured Bey and entourage dressed in Black Panther-like attire dancing in an "X" shape in tribute to Malcolm X, Time notes—is being slammed as "hate speech" and is now the subject of a protest rally outside the NFL's Manhattan headquarters, the New York Daily News reports. "Are you offended as an American that Beyonce pulled her race-baiting stunt at the Superbowl?" a promo for the Feb. 16 event reads, per the Daily News. "Do you agree that it was a slap in the face to law enforcement? Do you agree that the Black Panthers was/is a hate group which should not be glorified?" Others have piled on, like Rudy Giuliani Monday on Fox News, saying the show was "outrageous" and an "attack" on cops, the Washington Post reports. New York Rep. Peter King tweeted that "Beyonce Formation video & #SB50 act was anti-police, shameful. Repeats big lie of Michael Brown innocence. Cops deserve support not criminals," referring to references in her new single about police brutality. But Marni Senofonte, her stylist for Sunday's show, told Essence "it was important to [Beyonce] to honor the beauty of strong Black women and celebrate the unity that fuels their power. One of the best examples of that is the image of the female Black Panther." The Independent notes a counter-protest is calling for Bey's supporters to "Get in Formation" and not "let anyone make her ... powerful statement about the value of Black life be overshadowed." Jessica Williams of The Daily Show also shut critics down, notes Mashable, saying of Giuliani's claim that halftime should cater to "Middle America," "You know what's in the middle of America? Ferguson, Missouri." (Bey still ruled the weekend, though.)