A sheriff blamed Beyoncé's new video for recent attacks against deputies

On Monday night, someone drove past a Tennessee sheriff's office and fired at least six shots. The sheriff suggested it was part of a recent wave of attacks against law enforcement officials, The Tennessean reports.

"With everything that's happened since the Super Bowl,” Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold said Tuesday, adding, "You know, Beyoncé's video."

Beyoncé's music video for "Formation," released earlier in February ahead of her Super Bowl halftime appearance, is a celebration of black women featuring references to the Black Lives Matter movement.

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"We all know, as soon as you put your uniform on, you're a target," Arnold said. "You make people mad when you're just doing your job."

Since protests ramped up after Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson, Missouri, law enforcement officials have erroneously tied less aggressive policing to higher crime rates. Julie Kliegman