Johnny Mims:
We have — of course, I have had many students, alumni students I have taught in the past, many students.
And I think the biggest thing for everybody to understand, for these students, alumni, parents, the community, the band community, many people are having just — they're having a hard time grappling of why they would, of course, Tase a educator in front of the students, and, more importantly, for something as simple as the band was playing a song and was towards the end of the song to complete.
I mean, it seemed like it's a very minor thing that led up to me being Tased multiple times. And I think that's the thing that most of the students and everybody's trying to grapple with. Out of the whole — out of all of the situation, I was the person that received all of the Tasing, the rough threats, and all of the different things that came from the police department.
And that's not acceptable. And, as you can see in other interviews from parents that were there, you can see that a lot of those type of things in regards threats, to aggressiveness from the police department happened even while we were getting there.
As soon as we get off the bus, they were already experiencing those things. And so it was just not acceptable. And it's something that should never have happened. You hear the officers say: "Hey, I'm going to call your superintendent."
That would be the process of what should have happened. It should have been a contact of superintendent, so they could get in contact with my administrator. And the administrator would have communicated that to us well in advance, which would have prevented all of this.
And, more importantly, we have to also keep in mind making sure we — somebody turned off the lights. That further caused a confusion among the students, parents and the fans that were there.
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