When Thursday’s game between Minor High School and P.D. Jackson-Olin High School wrapped up in Birmingham, both schools’ bands were performing for families and fans as part of what’s known as the “fifth quarter,” a postgame musical tradition usually seen at historically Black colleges and universities and predominantly Black high schools.
The incident has been met with backlash from the community in recent days, with critics saying police subjected the band director to excessive force and a wrongful arrest. Alabama state Rep. Juandalynn Givan , who is Mims’s attorney, has called on the city to place all the officers involved on administrative leave during the investigation.“This incident is an alarming abuse of power and a clear violation of our client’s civil rights,” Givan said in a statement to, a CBS affiliate in Birmingham.
posted on Minor High School’s site. He came to Minor, a Birmingham suburb, after leading bands and orchestras in Daytona Beach and New Smyrna Beach, Fla.Nearly 20 minutes after Minor defeated Jackson-Olin, police approached Mims to tell his band to stop playing. The video shows that Mims repeatedly told the officer, “Get out of my face,” before acknowledging they were about to wrap up.The situation grew tense when one of the officers threatened to send Mims to jail.
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