Beyoncé Pays Tribute To Murdered Dallas Cops

Music megastar Beyoncé — whose Black Lives Matter anthem “Formation” was branded “anti-cop” by many police unions and talking heads earlier this year — begged for peace and honored the five officers massacred Thursday night in a solemn Instagram post.

“Rest in peace to the officers whose lives were senselessly taken yesterday in Dallas. I am praying for a full recovery of the seven others injured,” the singer wrote Friday. “No violence will create peace. Every human life is valuable.”

“We must be the solution. Every human being has the right to gather in peaceful protest without suffering more unnecessary violence,” she added. “To effect change we must show love in the face of hate and peace in the face of violence.”

Her earnest words captioned black-and-white footage of a billowing Texas flag cut together with names of the fallen: Brent Thompson, Patrick Zamarripa, Michael Krol, Michael Smith and Lorne Ahrens.

A deranged Army vet targeting white cops gunned down the five officers and wounded seven others at a downtown Dallas event protesting the back-to-back killings of black men by police in Louisiana and Minnesota earlier that week.

Amid mounting nationwide outrage, Beyoncé paid tribute to those two victims — 37-year-old Alton Sterling and 32-year-old Philando Castile — and decried what she called “the war on people of color and all minorities” in a frank statement posted to her website Thursday afternoon.

“We are sick and tired of the killings of young men and women in our communities,” she wrote, providing links to congresspeople’s contact information. “It’s up to us to take a stand and demand that they ‘stop killing us.’”

She halted her concert in Glasgow that evening for a moment of silence, beaming onto a screen the names of police brutality victims.

Her husband, Jay Z, also released an anti-police brutality track he’d recorded years ago called “Spiritual” — admitting in a statement that he was “saddened and disappointed” its message still had relevance today.

The power couple has long championed the Black Lives Matter activist movement. Beyoncé included cops in riot gear and graffiti screaming "Stop Killing Us" in her "Formation" music video, and featured the mothers of shooting victims Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Garner in her "Lemonade" visual album.

Jay Z's Tidal streaming service also announced Feb. 5, the day Martin would have turned 21, that it would donate $1.5 million to Black Lives Matter and other social justice groups.

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