Alabama high school band director stunned, arrested after telling students to keep playing music, police said

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Attendees and students at a high school football game in Alabama 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.

The arrest took place when Birmingham police officers were attempting to clear the football stadium 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.

Instead, Mims told his students to keep playing. Then a scuffle ensued.

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Birmingham police officers arrested a band director at a high school football game in Alabama last week. (Google Maps)

"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."

Fitzgerald said the band director refused to place his hands behind his back and then pushed the officer who put his hands on him, so another officer shocked the band director with a stun gun.

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