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.
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“teens scream in the background”
What type of “teens”?
Youths.
That makes sense. Hard to imagine the Band Director wouldn’t be INFORMED of this before hand? If he was, then it’s on him. If he wasn’t, it’s on the cops.
However, in Wisconsin ‘The Fifth Quarter’ is legendary! The UW Badger Band always plays as everyone is leaving. Usually ‘polka-ing’ our way out of the stadium - if we won. And if we lost? We still dance - it cheers us up! :)
There are even bars named, ‘The Fifth Quarter’ in Wisconsin. ;)
“The police wanted everyone to start leaving that area, since the game was over.”
Are these the sort of fans that would start shooting each other after the game in a boisterous celebration?
Neil Young... Southern Man
(The marching band refused to yield)
See? Been happening since 1971!
We always kept playing until the crowd left in high school and college and sometimes afterwards in “dueling bands”.
Heck, when Ark played Texas in college the concept of “dueling bands” got physical.
This is around Birmingham so I actually looked at the Daily Mail photos and a map of the area. Yes, it is as I suspected.
The cops are there to get everybody gone before the fights and shootings start. This is not our society from the 60s and 70s.
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember......
Considering how obsessed the dimwits on the left are about feelings; I am surprised they haven’t demanded that the national anthem be changed from The Star-spangled Banner to feelings.
Excellent addition to this thread! :)
Wasn’t he referring to the Ohio campus anti-war riot where college kids were shot by National Guard troops?
I don’t remember what ALL the lyrics meant, though I’ve read through the explanations before...
THAT could send the ICBMs flying.....
Meanwhile Joe seems to be warming up to play Martin Sheen in The Dead Zone.
“Gentlemen, the missiles are flying. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!”
Maybe. But he’s an adult. You’re supposed to cooperate with the police. I see lots of stories of people whose first inkling that the lawful orders of the police are to be taken seriously is the first time that they disobey one. It should be taught in civics classes. I’ve had numerous encounters with the cops when I’m armed. Everything is just peachy-keen if I’m polite, respectful of the uniform, and don’t give them reason to believe I’m going to be belligerent.
:checks constitution:
Not finding anything about the police having the authority to break up a concert. Can you point out where you found it?
I thought they were public servants not a occupying army that has to be appeased or their tiny feels will be hurt and so they will beat the crap out of you.
Overall it’s the music dying in an Iowa cornfield with Buddy Holly, etc al. February 3, 1959.
(But February made me shiver
...
When I read about his widowed bride
Married August 15, 1958)
The Jester is obviously Mick Jagger :
(And moss grows fat on a rollin’ stone
But that’s not how it used to be
When the jester sang for the king and queen)
The quartet is The Beatles
Last train for the coast:
Beach Boys and surf music
Perfectly understandable if it was the home team.
What a dumb decision by the cops......from a PR point of view it would have been better to pay these uniformed stasis overtime and let the band play. Wonder why cops gets disrespected?s/
10th Amendment then:
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