Beyoncé has made her second powerful statement of protest for the night during her performance at the MTV VMAs.

While performing a medley of songs from her hit album, Lemonade, the pop megastar was surrounded by backup dancers dressed as angels.

However, as red lights flooded the stage, each of the 'angels' was shot down during the performance, which viewers said was a representation of police brutality.

'The imagery of the Beyonce performance with the angels getting shot down...,' one person tweeted.

Beyonce too deep. All the angels were shot, police brutality,' another wrote.

It comes after the star walked the red carpet with her daughter Blue Ivy at the MTV VMAs in New York.

The singer, who is due to perform at the show on Sunday night, was joined in the spotlight by mothers of gun and other violence victims Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Oscar Grant.

Sybrina Fulton, Gwen Carr, Lesley McSpadden, and Wanda Johnson - the mothers of Martin, Garner, Brown and Grant respectively - posed for pictures with the pop superstar and the rest of her entourage outside the event at Madison Square Garden.

The women, apart from Johnson, also featured in Beyoncé's critically acclaimed Lemonade album and accompanying video, when they were seen holding photographs of their deceased sons.

Two other stars also made political statements earlier in the night, with Amber Rose and Lance Bass making their voices heard.

Rose, who is a long-time activist for women's rights, promoted her upcoming Slut Walk event on October 1.

The event is aimed at ending sexual and domestic violence against women.

Bass, the former NSYNC star, wore a custom blue jacket with 'Love Trump Hates' written across the back - with the 'o' replaced by a love heart.

The boy-band star is an outspoken supporter of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Songwriter and performer Alicia Keys, who presented the award for Best Male Video, read and performed an anti-war and anti-racism song inspired by Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech.

Afterwards Keys said she hopes one day all Americans will 'believe all women and men are created equal'.

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