and it'll also explain why nothing will come of it too.

There's a word for this situation. I can't remember it, but it's reich there, white on the tip of my tongue...

I opened the article just to see and wasn't at all surprised.

The officer captured on his own camera that his reason for the arrest was "he was disrespectful"

Yep. Says it all.

I don't think that was a lawful order, anyways. And police have absolutely no authority to command citizens for anything but lawful orders.

He was black, in public, and not licking a pigs boot. In Alabama.

Racist cop tazes black teacher. Would have been my pick for a headline.

Of course he broke the law - he hurt the officer's feelings. That's the worst law you can possibly break! /s

But seriously though. Cops got butthurt, and so they aggravated the situation, and used the fact that the poor man panicked when being manhandled as the reason to arrest him in the first place. What kind of circular reasoning bullshit is that??

That's only when they're on duty. Off duty, they gravitate more towards punching their wives.

The cop probably wanted to get home so he could beat his wife.

Simple, the cops job is absolutely not to enable everyone to continue having a good time. Their job is to protect capital and the ruling class, usually with impunity. Unfortunately that sort of power corrupts, and this cop probably had somewhere to go and wanted to hurry things up (with impunity)

Police were at the stadium because they were likely required to be. Very often if you have a large gathering you are required to have Police present, often paying for it. It's largely a racket to get officers easy overtime.

If only the cops had some way to record the interaction to prove that he pushed them.

Smoke more pork

Literally by the time they went to arrest him the band had finished their set and were ready to go. All they had to do was wait 2 minutes and they would've got what they wanted.

Sure, a majority of the initial conversation is unintelligible because of the band, but I seriously doubt the director said anything that provocative... if anything the officers are the ones trying to provoke a reaction out of him, and he's just asking them to stay out of his face.

I remember back when it was just a "couple" of rotten apples, but just like in the phrase, it seems they've ruined the whole damn batch. Remember kids, A.C.A.B.

On the bright side, all these highschool kids are learning early that ACAB.

Holy crap I've never seen such an unnecessarily escalated situation in my life. Just look at all the chaos going on by the end of that video, and for what, because the band needed 2 extra minutes to finish their set?

The cop gave exactly his reason to arrest the band director: he didn't respect his [unintelligible]. That was disrespectful.

You can't go around being disrespectful to cops! They're people, too. People with tasers, handcuffs, guns, and have used straight-up corruption to get the rights to stomp all over your constitutional rights or just murder you.

C'mon you guys, we need to have more compassion for these poor cops. They were disrespected by a not-yet-tased high school band director: the most dangerous of all band directors.

Yeah. Nobody expects alabamians to be above this kind of high school drama behavior.

They really haven't grown up as a society.

Yes, they're police. You can tell by the uniforms and the blatant human and civil rights violations that they will receive no repercussions over.

I dont think that this complex thought can be argued with someone who thinks one minute is too long.

Also in the US police has shown many times that they neither care, nor face repercussions for failing to take responsibility for the life of their fellow citizens including children.

This presumes the cops think logically