Johnny Mims, the band director at an Alabama high school near Birmingham, was tased and arrested for not complying with officers' orders, police said.
A high school band director in Alabama was shocked with a taser and arrested when he refused to direct his students to stop playing music after a football game last week, authorities said.
Birmingham police officers told the band directors of both high schools to end their students' performances while attempting to clear the stadium following the game, the Birmingham Police Department said in a news release Friday. Police said the Jackson-Olin band director complied with officers' requests, but Mims did not.
"I've got my troops coming," the officer says. The officer then instructs Mims to stop the students playing and tells Mims,"You will go to jail," to which Mims replies,"That's cool." While being ordered to put his hands behind his back, Mims is shocked once with a taser. In annotated text included in the body camera video, Birmingham police wrote that the first attempt to shock Mims was"ineffective." Moments later, Mims is shocked again with a taser for a more prolonged period.
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