What began as a routine band performance of Talkin’ Out the Side of Your Neck by Cameo at an Alabama high school football game ended in a troubling confrontation when a police officer tased the marching band director for refusing to stop the music.
The altercation occurred Thursday around 9 p.m. local time after a game at Jackson-Olin High School in Birmingham, Ala.
Minor High School band director Johnny Mims, 39, and his ensemble of 145 students were about a minute away from being done with their final song when a police officer approached the podium. According to both Mims and the Birmingham Police Department, officers asked Mims to stop the performance so they could clear out the stadium. Mims responded that the song was about to end and the performance was agreed on by both schools.
“Nothing we were doing at the time was being a danger to the community, fans or the school,” Mims told NPR on Monday. “Everyone was enjoying themselves. That’s the part I’m having a hard time grappling with.”
As the students finished their performance, officers attempted to arrest Mims for not complying. Police said the band director “refused” to place his hands behind his back and allegedly pushed an arresting officer.
Omg! He got Juandalynn!
Barbara Billingsley wrote the subtitles….
WTF?!?! It was the already agreed upon last song. What was the problem, was Dunkin Donuts making last call?
“A Reuters analysis from 2020 documented more than 1,000 cases of deaths related to police use of tasers, largely between 2000 and 2018, and found that Black Americans were disproportionately impacted.”
I wonder if that Reuters report also mentioned that Black Americans who make up about 11% to 16% of the population are responsible for just over half of all crime.
Do they know the theme from Rawhide?
The marching band refused to yield…
So we zapped the music director
on the field
the day
the music
died.
“Head (taze) em up and move em out.” The cop must have been a music critic and didn’t like their choice of music. What if that HS marching band was playing Louie, Louie, Tequila or Green Onions by Booker T and The MG’s.
Why were they trying to evacuate the stadium?
Maybe that is the bigger story
Cop 2 – “He’s going to jail because I asked him to respect (unintelligible). That was disrespectful to me.”
He dissed me.
So instead of letting the rest of the song end and everybody goes home in 3 more minutes, the coppers just created 3 hours of Paperwork, Bad Relations, A Lawsuit, a Martyr and reinforced the Alabama/Mississippi Burning narrative.
Way to pick your Hill guys.
The suit at the end of the vid is possibly the biggest liar I’ve ever seen. “But don’t worry. We’ll investigate ourselves and get to the bottom of this.” Lyin’ M’Fu*ker.
“Respect my authority!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu07ldJ0elY
Battle of Da Bands, Home team heeded the Police to stop, the opposing team band would not yield nor stop. Hopefully the taser was set to maximum volts.
Dumbass should listen to police orders, especially in front of children. Hope it felt enlightening. But did he flop much?