For
the second time this year, the former New York City mayor and prominent
Donald Trump surrogate is sharply criticizing Queen B — this time
following the megastar’s show-stealing tribute to Black Lives Matter at
Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards.
“It’s a shame!” Giuliani said on Fox News on Monday morning
while discussing Beyoncé’s 15-minute performance, which included a
visual composition about gun violence against black people in America.
Just as he did in June, the former mayor asserted, “I saved more black lives than any of those people you saw on stage.”
Beyoncé
arrived at the VMAs with the mothers of four victims of fatal police
shootings whose deaths sparked the national outrage that gave rise to
the Black Lives Matter movement. Accompanying the pop superstar were the
mothers of Trayvon Martin (Sybrina Fulton), Michael Brown (Lesley
McSpadden), Eric Garner (Gwen Carr) and Oscar Grant III (Wanda Johnson).
Fulton, McSpadden and Carr were also featured in a scene holding
portraits of their slain sons in the film component of Beyoncé’s visual
album “Lemonade,” which was released earlier this year.
During
a performance of the song “Pray You Catch Me,” the opening track on the
album, Beyoncé stood among 16 dancers all bathed in white spotlights.
As she sang, the dancers fell to the ground alone or in pairs in time
with beats from the music, and the lights pooling around them turned
blood red, another apparent nod to the victims of gun violence.
After
all 16 dancers had fallen, Beyoncé walked forward onstage alone and a
black man wearing a hoodie followed her as the song ended — an image
that recalled slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Martin was wearing a
hoodie when he was deemed suspicious by neighborhood watch volunteer
George Zimmerman, who fatally shot the young man in February 2012.
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