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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Wow, that’s obtuse. No mention of thr police at all in the Constitution. Check the laws of the municipality in question re: crowd control.
P.S. Don’t check the link, it’s trolling...
Why do police officers act like that? Because police officer candidates, to get certification, take a battery of tests, one of them being for IQ. If they score average or above, they will not be certificated. So arguing with a police officer is futile. That’s why no situation can be made better by the arrival of police officers.
How about a Protest March in front of the PD station playing John Phillip Souza, or German Techno, or Rap, or something from the soundtrack of a canadian tv show about a farm or a ranch, or maybe just a jam sesssion. 1st amendment activity. Just like continuing to play in a public space after a football game is.
Yep, it's the 95% of good cops that turn a blind eye to corruption and criminality in their ranks that are at fault. And yes, I'm being generous with 95%.
Stupid orders.
Enforcing laws isn’t a service? Next time you get pulled over, tell the cop to go get you a sammich and a beer, and see what that gets you. You agreed to abide by certain rules when you got a driver’s license. I’ll bet the fine print on every ticket into that football stadium had some rules about conduct and the potential for your removal.
Is this real? Would they even do something this stupid in North Korea, Cuba, or China?
What were they hurting? No school pep spirit anymore???
We saw Don McLean in the last couple years at the 30A Songwriters Festival on the main stage. He’s still got it, it was a good show.
He sold the original manuscript to American Pie in the last few years for into 7 figures. He figured it was time, and it wasn’t doing anything for him, really.
Here:
$1.2 million in 2015.
Bring it up at the next city council meeting. They probably had orders to disperse the crowd quickly after the game to avoid the potential for groups of teens resorting to gunplay. If you’d been paying attention you’d know that the Amish are why we can’t have nice things like after-game celebrations.
I remember when it came out in 1971.
“Non-compliance with lawful orders?”
RIGHT THERE, PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
Immediately drop to your knees and obey your masters without hesitation or question or die. He is lucky to be alive.
Thanks!
It was really a remarkable ‘commentary poem’ about the times, wasn’t it?
Glad he cashed in; he deserved it for that masterpiece. :)
I don’t know what preceded the brief video clip in the link. Neither do you. Do you fly off the handle when the cops pull you over? Some people do. And, yes, some of them get shot. Too bad, so sad.
Look... Too many are being shot EVEN FOLLOWING orders. They just didn’t do it fast enough or they did it too fast which is now a death sentence.
“some of them get shot. Too bad, so sad.”
There is so much wrong with that statement...
Humans lives are no more important than lowly cattle right?
Demonstrate that you are complying with lawful orders and keep your hands where the cops can see them. They deal with people that are worse than cattle, all of the time.
Idiots! What is wrong woth these people? Brain dead cops.
“They deal with people that are worse than cattle, all of the time.”
That does not give them the authority to execute without hesitation.
Listen... My Father and I were almost shot twice because he had dementia and COULD NOT OBEY CORRECTLY!
So that would have been just? We both deserved to be “put down” because he had a mental illness he couldn’t control?
If I had not yelled “DEMENTIA” as loud as I could we would have both been dead.
My dad was an ex-cop. Does that change the perspective any? Deserved to die anyhow?
Likewise. It was HUGE! that year.
I told one of the guys in our garage band that this song was (iconic)
He gave me a “meh” 🤪
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