2023-09-20 07:03:47
A recently released video shows how the Birmingham (Alabama, USA) police used a stun gun to arrest an orchestra conductor African American, who had refused to order his high school marching band to stop playing during a football game.
The police are currently investigating the incident. According to what the African-American congresswoman of the Alabama state legislature, Juandalynn Givan, who acts as the orchestra conductor’s lawyer, said on Tuesday, This episode constitutes an “alarming abuse of power” and it should not have ended in violence.
The video, which was made public on Monday night, shows the arrest of bandleader Johnny Mims during a local high school football game that took place last Thursday.
In the pictures, You can see how the agents approach Mims as the band continues playing in the stands. Repeatedly They ask you to stop the music and for the students to leave the stadium, but Mims persists in directing the band and responds to one of the police officers with: “Get out of my sight”.
Mims then tells the agents that the gang is preparing to leave and that The song they are performing is “the last one.”.
However, the police threaten to arrest him or contact the school, to which the conductor shows indifference. At one point, one of the police officers decides to arrest the orchestra director and orders: ““Put the handcuffs on him.”.
“We’re fixing to go. This is our last song”
Police in Birmingham AL tased and arrested a band director (and the bus driver) for allowing his band to finish playing their final song and not forcing his team to stop when commanded.
Johnny Mims was charged with disorderly… pic.twitter.com/DKRKaHg9lY
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The music stops and chaos breaks out with a crowd of people. At that moment, a police officer uses a stun gun to try to restrain Mims.
The agents They used a stun gun on Mimsalso known as a taser, which can give electric shocks of up to 50 thousand volts and that cause muscle contractions with the aim of immobilizing the subject.
According to Givan, more than 140 students were present and, in the video, you can hear his screams during the arrest.
At the time of the arrest, the Birmingham Police Department justified it by claiming that Mims had committed disorderly conduct offensesharassment and resistance to authority.
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Alabama high school band director stunned, arrested after telling students to keep playing music, police said
The Birmingham Police Department arrested Johnny Mims from Minor High School and charged him with disorderly conduct among other charges.#Alabama… pic.twitter.com/8S52bb8OvK— Noelia Belén Izarza ???????????????? (@myteks) September 19, 2023
Mims, sin embargo, He was able to be released on parole after paying bail..
The charges against him are now being evaluated by the internal affairs division of the Birmingham Police Department, responsible for clarifying what happened.
The crudeness of the video evokes other cases that, In recent years, they have documented police violence against the black community in the United States.
One of those videos showed how a white police officer from Minneapolis (Minnesota) suffocated the African American George Floyd in May 2020sparking the largest anti-racism protests since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in the late 1960s.
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