jrefior,
@jrefior@hachyderm.io avatar

Why are cops using force to stop a high school band from continuing to play at the end of a football game?

So much for freedom in

"police were trying to clear the stadium after the game and asked both bands to stop playing so people wouldn’t linger.

"Police say the director disregarded officers and told his students to keep playing."

They arrested and tasered him.
https://apnews.com/article/alabama-birmingham-band-director-tased-arrested-d5700475e63b76272caa5fd64d641cd2

chadmbriggs,

@jrefior I'm really shocked to learn that the band director was black - police would've tasered a suburban white teacher, too, right?

jrefior, (edited )
@jrefior@hachyderm.io avatar

@chadmbriggs
I was thinking "the only thing that would explain this is if the band director is black", but I hadn't found a picture
https://abc3340.com/news/local/alabama-minor-high-school-band-director-arrested-p-d-jackson-olin-high-school-football-game-disorderly-conduct-harassment-and-resisting-arrest-johnny-mims

IveyJanette,
@IveyJanette@mastodon.social avatar

@jrefior Of course,if it had been a white high school band, nothing would have happened. Uh-huh.

marchuff,

@jrefior PLEASE IT'S not in america it's murica or the south or red state. NOT american don't lump alabama or south in with the north. WE had to take them after civil war like west germany had to take east germany. or kim had to take kanye...heheh

AmandaWeaver,
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@jrefior The minute I started reading the article, I said to myself, "100% that band director was a Black man." I googled and yep, he was. This country is so depressingly predictable.

the_turtle,
@the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

@jrefior once again, cops almost never prevent crime, but they often INvent it.

billseitz,

@jrefior whomst amongst us hasn't wanted to taze the marching band? (jk)

MaryAliciaZiff,

@jrefior
White cops, black band leader?
Tasered, over band directing while black?
"Make this make sense lord, please make it make sense!"
(I'm an atheist)

lightninhopkins,
@lightninhopkins@mastodon.social avatar

@jrefior Police are not there to protect you. They are there to impose their will.

dalfen,
@dalfen@mstdn.social avatar

@jrefior OMG 😱
I remember the good ‘ol days when high school football games weren’t hell on earth 😳

actualeyes,

@jrefior Those conductor batons can be threatening. 😒

kroltanz,

@jrefior @IveyJanette because they are black.

dr2chase,
@dr2chase@ohai.social avatar

@jrefior should have just asked them to play worse music. Friend of mine would play Pere Ubu's Non-Alignment Pact to clear 90% of a bar at closing, then turn it off so the other 10% would also leave. (I'm part of the 10%.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Leax63ullPE

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