The Alabama band director who was arrested after refusing to stop his band’s performance at a high school football game is grappling with the aftermath of being tased by police, which his attorney says was unacceptable and left students traumatized.
“Regardless of how this may have started, there’s nothing that happened that would have warranted my client being tased multiple times, even while on the ground like some total criminal, at that point in front of 145 students,” Johnny Mims’ attorney, Juandalynn Givan said. “Those kids were traumatized.”
Mims, the band director at Minor High School, told “CNN This Morning” he is working to regain regular use of his arm after police tased him and is concerned about his students who witnessed the incident.
Do you remember what was the deal?
Sports game ended, the bands of both teams kept playing while fans left. Cops walked up and demanded they both stop for some reason even though it’s standard for them to play at the end of the game. Other team stopped, his didn’t, so for some reason they tased and arrested him.
I was quoting Don McLean, but thank you very much for the synopsis!