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.
It’s hard to pin “disorderly conduct” on a band at a football game during the scheduled hours. Who can reasonably be negatively affected by that?
Plus this is the band director. He’s not even playing music. Unless he’s fighting someone or swearing at someone, there’s no way his conduct can be disorderly.
He’s going to get a payout from a settlement, almost guaranteed.