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Birmingham Police Department(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) New body camera video obtained by ABC News shows a conversation between Johnny Mims, a band director at Minor High School in Alabama, and a Birmingham Police Department (BPD) officer who shocked him with a stun gun during an incident on Sept. 14 after Mims refused to comply with officer s orders to stop the music so they could clear the field.
BPD released a nearly 8-minute clip of the incident last week that shows Mims refusing to comply and then being shocked three times by police, but Mims’ attorney, Juandalynn Givan, shared additional body camera footage of the incident with ABC News that shows the moments after Mims was arrested, including a conversation he had with the officer who shocked him during the incident.
Mims accuses the officer of escalating the situation in the video.
"You shouldn’t have escalated it," Mims told the officer.
"You allowed it to. You wouldn’t comply," the officer said.
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Birmingham Police Department(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) New body camera video obtained by ABC News shows a conversation between Johnny Mims, a band director at Minor High School in Alabama, and a Birmingham Police Department (BPD) officer who shocked him with a stun gun during an incident on Sept. 14 after Mims refused to comply with officer s orders to stop the music so they could clear the field.
BPD released a nearly 8-minute clip of the incident last week that shows Mims refusing to comply and then being shocked three times by police, but Mims’ attorney, Juandalynn Givan, shared additional body camera footage of the incident with ABC News that shows the moments after Mims was arrested, including a conversation he had with the officer who shocked him during the incident.
Mims accuses the officer of escalating the situation in the video.
"You shouldn’t have escalated it," Mims told the officer.
"You allowed it to. You wouldn’t comply," the officer said.
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