Alabama band director says he was trying to celebrate football team’s win when he was tased by police

Johnny Mims, the band director for Minor High School in Adamsville, Alabama, who was shocked with a stun gun by Birmingham police after he refused to stop his band’s performance after a football game said he was trying to celebrate his school’s win.

“The most important thing I want everyone to know is I was just doing my job as an educator, instructing the band, allowing the band to play,” he said at a news conference on Wednesday. “And again, celebrating the achievements of our football team, cheerleading squad and our band program.”

“The things that happened in that game should have never happened,” he continued. “The students should have never seen me tased.”

Mims told NBC News NOW that he and the director for Jackson-Olin High School had agreed to do a “5th Quarter” performance, where both bands continued playing while the crowds left the stadium in Birmingham after Thursday night’s football game.

via www.nbcnews.com

Shocking but not surprising.