Bodycam footage has surfaced showing an Alabama band director, Johnny Mims, being arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after he refused to stop his band’s performance at a football game on September 14. Mims was leading his ensemble of more than 140 students, and they were nearly finished with their final song when Birmingham police officers approached him. The officers requested that Mims stop the performance and exit the stadium. When Mims declined to comply with their orders, the situation escalated.
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The bodycam footage captures the moment when police officers resorted to using a taser on Mims. The incident has garnered attention and raised questions about the handling of the situation by law enforcement. The Law&Crime Network’s Elizabeth Millner analyzes the footage and provides an in-depth look at what happened following the tasing incident, as well as what could happen next for both the band director and the police officers involved.
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And people wonder why the youngsters don’t act like they got any sense.
What damn fool
I stand behind the band director for still having them play. There were still people around, cheerleaders and everything. It was ridiculous they were trying to make them leave right then.
Some of the comments make me believe the commentors have never been in a band. If you have to use police to usher people out of a football game 10 mins after – seems they have shady happenings – and i doubt the band is whom they needed to worry about. The director at the very least probably felt disrespected. Bands are never given their due respect.
Wow…what kind of example is he? Disrespect law enforcement like that😮..
He was feeling the beat…Btw, You’re not weak if you listen to direction…You’re an adult and show children what being an adult is…
They arent going to champs
Narcissistic behavior
Well he taught his students a a valuable lesson that day it’s called Fck around and find out
they all look like how I thought they would…
Rode the lightning
He's like, "the best part coming!!!ONE AND TWO, AND DAN DAN DANNN"😂😂it sure was!!!âš¡ï¸ÂðŸâ€Å’âš¡ï¸Â🤸â€Â♂ï¸Â🤸â€Â♂ï¸Â😂
This is nuts.
Everybody is in the wrong here, but police definitely are the worse offenders. This is NOT de-escalation. Those police directly worsed thos situation, and the lack of training here really shows.
The director needed to be deescalated, not tazed. They were too aggressive with a teacher in front of his kids.
Yeah, he shouldn't have acted that way, but cops could also have just let the last minute of song finish and just let him go. Their pride wouldn't allow them. And now they have this beautiful YouTube video showing off everybody's terrible behavior.
When children/teens see adults behaving badly against law enforcement, why are we surprised and question it when the kids do it too? Junk in. Junk out.
I found the whole thing shocking!!
Forget cops… whoever support them are just scary individuals
The tyrants over reacted!
The kid screaming 😂😂😂😂😂
This is typical of this sort of person keeping the stereotype alive
Let them play
Let them play
Let them play
I don’t understand this at all. You need to provide context to stories like this.
The teachers are starting to be part of the problem, just like the parents. There is no discipline at home and now at school. What do you expect from the kids. The police will not educate your kids, that's your job.
The most dangerous thing that happened here was turning out the lights. How is everyone supposed to get down from the stands safely? I don't feel this was handled well. First of all, the band director should have complied with the police officers. However, seeing as he didn't, I feel the cops could have waited until the last song was done and then given him a ticket/warning.
He feared for his life. p*** off what a clown
What a joke of a man.
police was lucky the students did not riot and seriously injure police!
Of course Alabama
He's such a tough guy with his power trip. No respect for the police.