US EditionAlabama high school band director stunned, arrested after refusing to end performance, police say
- An Alabama high school band director was tased and arrested by Birmingham police after he refused to stop his band from playing at a football game. The director was charged with disorderly conduct, harassment, and resisting arrest.
- Despite officers' requests to end the performance, the director instructed his band to continue playing, leading to a physical altercation between the director, security personnel, and police officers. The band director refused to comply with the officers' commands and pushed one of them, resulting in the use of a stun gun.
- Following the arrest, the band director was treated by paramedics and taken to a hospital. He was later booked into jail and released after posting bail. The school superintendent is currently gathering facts about the incident, and an internal affairs investigation into the police officers' use of force will be conducted.
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Alabama band director tased after refusing to stop his band's performance at football game
(CNN) — The Alabama band director who was shocked by a police stun gun and arrested after refusing to stop his band’s performance at a high school football game said the post-game songs had been arranged ahead of time and the whole experience has left him traumatized. “I should have never been tased. It was excessive,” Johnny Mims, the Minor High School band director, said in a news conference Tuesday. “No educator should ever have to experience…
Alabama school band director says he was ‘just doing my job’ before arrest
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. >> An Alabama high school band director said today that he was just “doing my job” when police officers arrested him and shocked him with a stun gun after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers following a football game.
Alabama school band director says he was ‘just doing my job’ before police arrested him
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama high school band director said Wednesday that he was just “doing my job” when police officers arrested him and shocked him with a stun gun after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers following a football game. Johnny Mims, the band director at Minor High School, told The Associated Press he was confused when officers pulled him from the director’s podium to arrest him following l…
High school band director Tasered, arrested after refusing to stop music
Police body camera video shows an United States high school band director being shocked with a stun gun and arrested by officers in front of screaming students, in a chaotic scuffle that broke out after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers following a gridiron game.Alabama State Representative Juandalynn Givan, who is representing band director Johnny Mims as his attorney, said on Tuesday that the incident is an …
High school band director in Alabama Tased and arrested
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An Alabama high school band director said Wednesday that he was just “doing my job” when police officers arrested him and shocked him with a stun gun after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers following a football game. Johnny Mims, the band director at Minor High School, told The Associated Press he was confused when officers pulled him from the director’s podium to arrest him following last T…
Alabama school band director is stunned, arrested
Police body camera video shows an Alabama high school band director being shocked with a stun gun and arrested by officers in front of screaming students, in a chaotic scuffle that broke out after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers following a football game.
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