This South really loves there High School Football, come see how much !

[Averageman]

I've seen this happen in HS Football Games, the underdog beats the rivals and then their Band Plays until the Stadium empties, just to kind of rub it in a little bit.
This begins 18 minutes after the Game is overand I'm willing to bet this Cop is one of the Hometown Team.

This is so crazy to me, but honestly someone makes an ass out of themselves every season.

You have to admit tazing the Band Director might be the highlight of any Mans day.

[Averageman]

And suddenly he can't remember telling the Cop to "Get out of my Face."

I'm almost willing to bet this rivalry is not going to rest anytime soon.

[SteyrAUG]

A bunch of children teaching high schoolers how to not act like adults.

It's a damn game, sometimes they win, sometime you win. It's about building bodies and learning confidence, but it's one of the least important things related to a high school education. Rubbing in a win is what children do and contrary to the sportsmanship you should be learning from the experience. Take wins with grace and show respect to the other team.

Won't even get into the "band director" being the one to show his ass, he didn't win anything. But he did embarrass the school.

[Wildcat]

So, the conductor became a resistor.

Is he grounded now?

[SteyrAUG]

So, the conductor became a resistor.

Is he grounded now?

Nice. I wonder what his capacity is.

[Averageman]

I can't believe that no one else has seen this kind of stuff happening.
Pretty much the quickest way to get a punch in the nose is to talk some smack out in the parking lot after a game.

[pinzgauer]

I don't see this as the slam dunk that some of y'all do. To me it was significant bad judgment by all, but especially by law enforcement.

The screaming female officer was the main part of the problem who escalated things.

The band director said "this is our last song let us finish". That sounded pretty reasonable to me.

Then right before they tased him one of the officers said "you're going to jail because you disrespected me".

The officers might have been technically in the right though I would like to know what law or ordinance was being broken. I guess they were under orders to clear the stadium so they could secure it but I've seen plenty of bands/fans linger long after the fact when the home team won. No escalation like this and no one got tased.

Some of the officers were being reasonable, it was the shrill shreaking female officer that pushed things over the edge.

When the guy did stop playing and the band started to disperse including the director they could have just left them disperse which was the original intent.

Instead they escalated, came out looking like jack booted thugs.

When they came to arrest him he should have said "you're going to arrest me for allowing my band to finish the song, really?". He screwed up when he resisted arrest because he gave them something to charge him with.

If people want to know why large portions of the community do not respect l e o anymore this type of thing is one of the reasons why.

LEO have a very difficult job to do and need to be able to do it. But there are times that they walk the edge into bad judgment and this is one of those times.

"You're going to jail because you disrespected me..." right

[Averageman]

And that's how out of control these thing occasionally get.
The whole idea of the Band Director playing 18 minutes after the Game was over was a dig on the Home Team. Rubbing in a Victiry I would surmise.
So going over and asking him to cool it and close it down wasn't a bad idea.
I'm just saying being an asshole at my House means we might be fighting in the driveway before long.
That's what I see.

As far as the Cops go, I saw few attempts to descalate and a few bad moves that escalted a bad stiuation.
But I've seen adult grown ass Men through fists over a Little League Game.

[chuckman]

"You're going to jail because you disrespected me..." right

You wanna civil suit you're gonna lose? Cause that's how you get a civil suit you're gonna lose.

[pinzgauer]

The whole idea of the Band Director playing 18 minutes after the Game was over was a dig on the Home Team. Rubbing in a Victiry I would surmise.

Traditions vary... With a serving infantry officer son who commissioned via West Point we became familiar with the tradition of the teams lining up in front of the bands and singing the alma mater after the game. The losing team goes first and the winning team stands respectfully behind them while they sing. Then the positions are reversed and the winning team sings.

So the stadiums are not normally cleared for 30 minutes or more after the game. All done respectfully.

Not all schools do this, but I'll say 90% of the schools who didn't normally at least did when playing USMA out of respect for the tradition.

The whole idea of fisticuffs over a football game is just stupid to me. But not surprising, I felt actively threatened when relatives invited us to a Clemson game and I happened to accidentally wear the wrong colored shirt. Completely out of ignorance but it was the school color of a school I had never heard of before.

We were surrounded by hardcore Clemson types and the glares and the growls were very threatening even if also just stupid and redneck.

Back on topic, this whole incident was totally avoidable. The shrieking female officer lost her temper and really escalated the issue. And of course the band director should not have resisted, he would have come out ahead if he looked the officers in the eyes and said "you're really going to arrest me for letting the band finish playing it song".