Birmingham police stunned a high school band director with a stun gun and arrested him after he instructed his band to keep playing music in defiance of an order to stop.
Attendees and students at a high school football game
last week were left stunned and confused after police officers stunned and detained a high school band director, who told his students not to stop playing their instruments.at Jackson-Olin High School on Thursday, following the team’s 27-0 loss to Minor High School, according to Birmingham Police Officer Truman Fitzgerald, a department spokesperson.
Fitzgerald told The Associated Press that officers instructed both bands to stop playing so that people would not linger at the facilities. He said the Jackson-Olin band stopped performing, but Minor’s band director Johnny Mims refused to silence his students.Birmingham police officers arrested a band director at a high school football game in Alabama last week.
"During the officers' interaction with Minor's band director, the decision was made to place him in custody," a statement from the Birmingham Police Department read."BPD officers attempted to take the band director into custody for Disorderly Conduct when a physical altercation ensued between the band director, Birmingham City Schools System Security personnel, and BPD officers.
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