An Alabama high school band director says he was just “doing my job” when police officers arrested him and shocked him with a stun gun after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers following a football game.
Can we do three strikes policies on police? Any violation of a law counts to the total and sends you to life in prison? And failing to report a violation is an automatic strike for everyone that didn't report it? I'm tired of cops getting off easy and working a county over and getting a raise for their "suffering".
I’m sorry, I might still be confused… did he get arrested and tazed for just continuing to conduct the band? Why were the police even stopping him? This seems insane.
Which is bizarre. I've never heard of a football stadium just instantly shutting everything down after the game. There's always post-game entertainment, opportunities for the opposing teams to shake hands, sometimes some announcements, that sort of thing.
Utterly ridiculous, power-tripping cops. I hope he takes them to the cleaners.
In many places if you’re found guilty of committing a crime and it’s “gang related” then the consequences go up. I think the same should happen to cops.
I’m not talking about the actions that can be debated, I’m talking about the ones where a fool did something egregious like tase a teacher for not obeying unnecessary instructions.
Hmm, I wonder if there were ever a group of people in history, who committed atrocities, and said they were just "following orders." Who could they be? It's a head scratcher.
Well what was the cops excuse? They’re not going to say they tasted him for ‘being black’. They’d say they tasted him for resisting, but what were they arresting him for in the first place?
I mean, the ‘cop speak’ excuse. Some noise bylaw? There’s no info in the article