The Alabama band director who was arrested after refusing to stop his band’s performance at a high school football game is grappling with the aftermath of being tased by police, which his attorney says was unacceptable and left students traumatized.
“Regardless of how this may have started, there’s nothing that happened that would have warranted my client being tased multiple times, even while on the ground like some total criminal, at that point in front of 145 students,” Johnny Mims’ attorney, Juandalynn Givan said. “Those kids were traumatized.”
Mims, the band director at Minor High School, told “CNN This Morning” he is working to regain regular use of his arm after police tased him and is concerned about his students who witnessed the incident.
Chicken shit cops these days be like… I am the law. Would be interested to see what the charges were. Disobedience???
Disorderly conduct. They can slap that on just about anything they want, and then at that point can follow up with the typical resisting arrest, causing a disturbance, etc etc bullshit
It’s hard to pin “disorderly conduct” on a band at a football game during the scheduled hours. Who can reasonably be negatively affected by that?
Plus this is the band director. He’s not even playing music. Unless he’s fighting someone or swearing at someone, there’s no way his conduct can be disorderly.
He’s going to get a payout from a settlement, almost guaranteed.
One thing that I haven’t been able to glean from reading up on this incident was the exact reason the cops were trying to stop the performance. Was there an emergency and they had to clear everyone out? Not to imply the excessive escalation was justified, it isn’t imo, just wondering what set these officers out on stopping him in the first place.
The article i read yesterday just said that the game was over, cops were trying to clear the stadium. They asked the bands to stop playing so that people would leave quicker (?). This band director refused.
Huh. I would think that having everyone leave quicker would be more likely to cause an emergency than to prevent one. But also, like, the band practiced for this and the school (?) I’m guessing, gave the green light to go ahead and have the band play at the game. The least they could be allowed to do is finish their performance that they’ve been practicing.
“All right! More band music! Let’s never leave!,” exclaimed the football fans.
This guy got fucked over, people who didn’t do anything wrong are gonna pay him a lot of money for it, the criminal cop who assaulted him to maintain the cop’s ego will get, at worst, a paid vacation.
Do you remember what was the deal?
Sports game ended, the bands of both teams kept playing while fans left. Cops walked up and demanded they both stop for some reason even though it’s standard for them to play at the end of the game. Other team stopped, his didn’t, so for some reason they tased and arrested him.
I was quoting Don McLean, but thank you very much for the synopsis!
Those frames make her look like Lone Ranger.
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Is anyone saying he didn’t deserve some sort of action? The issue is with the actions that were taken by police, which were not fitting.
He didn’t deserve any sort of action. The stadium was clearing out just fine. He was finishing up and was assaulted for making music.
In what kind of fascist hellscape does that warrant police action?
These cops were way out of line.
You’re absolutely right.
They should have tear gassed the entire bandNah, kettled them in with riot shields, beat them to the ground, pepper sprayed them while they were down, and then shot them claiming they misunderstood the writhing around in pain for reaching for a concealed weapon.
Airstrike. It’s the only way to make sure.
Goddamn band leaders…
“Chief? Do you think dogs and a firehouse might send the wrong signal?”
A band was playing a song and you think this requires police action, unreal.
Yes and clearly the answer to stopping the band is to assault and tase someone. There’s just no other way to handle that situation, just start tazin’
Could you stop? I’m white too, and when you pull this shit I get lumped in with you.
So just do what authority tells you to do with no justification, or else violence will be done to you?
In what world should people who are just playing music be subject to violence and arrest?
These are rhetorical questions. I’m not actually interested in your response.
Why would the cops get to decide how quickly people have to leave the stadium? Do you think there is a law that the stadium must be empty exactly 23 minutes after the game? Do you think the cops are experts that were trained on the amount of time that people can safely linger in a stadium after a game? The cops wanted to go home so they abused their authority and then violently assaulted a school band director in front of a bunch of kids.
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