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Alabama high school band director is TASERED by cops in front of screaming students and arrested for refusing to stop the music after football game ended
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Posted on 09/18/2023 3:00:07 PM PDT by algore

The director of an Alabama high school's band was tasered by police in front of horrified students and arrested after he allegedly refused to stop playing after a football game ended.

Johnny Mims, leader of the band at Minor High School in Adamsville, was charged with disorderly conduct, harassment and resisting arrest for encouraging the students to keep playing after the game at the Jackson-Olin High School had concluded on Thursday.

The band had continued to play as police were trying to clear out the stadium following a win by the Minors.

Both the teams band kept playing after the game was over, but the losing team quickly left after police asked, according to police.

Shocking footage shows the moment police tasered Mims as teens scream in the background. The department said in a statement: 'During the officers' interaction with Minor’s band director, the decision was made to place him in custody.

'BPD officers attempted to take the band director into custody for Disorderly Conduct when a physical altercation ensued between the band director, Birmingham City Schools personnel, and BDP officers.

Mims was taken to the hospital, as is protocol after a taser is used, before being booked in a Birmingham jail.

He has since been released on bail, as reported by The Washington Post.

Following backlash, Jefferson County School Superintendent Walter Gonsoulin said on Friday he's gathering facts and urged 'everyone not to jump to conclusions.'

Mims, who has worked at the high school since 2018, appears to be a beloved member of the community, and many have come out to support him and denounce the incident.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: gundog

Yes.


21 posted on 09/18/2023 3:11:47 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: algore

Even if there is some sound ordinance curfew for the neighborhood, which may well be the case, this was handled improperly. Kind of strange otherwise for the cops to be on hand so soon. I wonder if someone in the neighborhood lodged a complaint.


22 posted on 09/18/2023 3:11:50 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: SkyDancer

Mississippi Queen?


23 posted on 09/18/2023 3:13:06 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: algore

The police wanted everyone to start leaving that area, sincevthe game was over. They asked the two band directors to stop playing, so crowds would be more likely to disperse.
The first band director quickly complied, telling his band to stop playing and prepare to go.

The second band director, for his own reasons, refused to comply, telling his band to keep going strong. Police had to take control, then this idiot began interfering, to the point they had to taze him just to stop the nonsense.
His ego got in the way of his logic.
Poor example of leadership, of cooperation with police in front of all these teens.


24 posted on 09/18/2023 3:13:12 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: DaBroasta

When my oldest was in his Middle school band, they were so bad that they all needed tasered to make it stop!

Sounded like a moose mating call. My youngest cried and stuck his fingers in his ear.


25 posted on 09/18/2023 3:13:41 PM PDT by dforest
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To: algore

Alabama has a law that music has to stop after a football game ends?


26 posted on 09/18/2023 3:13:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: algore
The band had continued to play as police were trying to clear out the stadium

I'm going to work on the idea that the stadium is supposed to be cleared within a timeframe after the game is over, and the story does not go into that; who decided how long after the game is over is the stadium supposed to be empty, and why.

I also didn't see whether this was a dedicated stadium next to the high school, or someplace like Hanson Field in Chicago, which was used by many schools across the area because not every high school has its own football field.

Based on what is actually written in the story, staying later to play band music all seems harmless. But it reads one-sided.

27 posted on 09/18/2023 3:14:51 PM PDT by Bernard ("No matter where you go, there you are." (Buckaroo Banzai))
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To: algore

Its Alabama. Full.stop. 😏


28 posted on 09/18/2023 3:14:53 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: nickcarraway

Laws are optional in America now silly wabbit.


29 posted on 09/18/2023 3:15:32 PM PDT by dforest
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To: SaveFerris

The day the music died


30 posted on 09/18/2023 3:15:45 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: SaveFerris

The day the music died


31 posted on 09/18/2023 3:15:52 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: algore

That was BAD. Need a lot more information.


32 posted on 09/18/2023 3:16:19 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: SkyDancer
What was the tune they were playing?

Gimme Some Lovin'

33 posted on 09/18/2023 3:17:41 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: algore

“... police were trying to clear out the stadium ...”
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I don’t recall that ever happening at
any high school football game that I ever attended.


34 posted on 09/18/2023 3:18:11 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: algore

I assume they were playing and marching on the field ... why would anyone even care. Maybe the police were offended when the band started playing “When the fools come marching in...”.


35 posted on 09/18/2023 3:19:32 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: lee martell

From the article: “Lisa Lawrence added: ;sickens me that this happened. all the videos I’ve seen so far basically just show the cops lied...and I do know Johnny personally...”

And:

“’This playing after the game is very common in the south...either because field time was not given at halftime for show performance, and/or as “battle of the bands” send off.’”


36 posted on 09/18/2023 3:20:33 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: j.havenfarm; John Milner; dfwgator

John Milner said it’s been going downhill ever since


37 posted on 09/18/2023 3:24:19 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: algore

Insurrection! Just like J6!


38 posted on 09/18/2023 3:24:35 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: RetiredTexasVet
Around Richmond Virginia local high school games have become a place to settle scores in the parking lot after games, so some schools are playing to an empty stadium, and other schools want you gone at the end of the game. Otherwise the 5th quarter riots begin.
39 posted on 09/18/2023 3:24:57 PM PDT by AdSimp
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/16/alabama-high-school-football-shooting/

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2021/09/alabama-high-school-football-game-halted-after-gunfire-erupts-outside-stadium-1-hospitalized.html

I think they’re trying to avoid tense, potentially lethal, situations by dispersing contentious opponents.

40 posted on 09/18/2023 3:27:14 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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