Many are saying the performance Friday night by the band from Forest Hill High School depicted students dressed as doctors and nurses pointing toy guns at SWAT team members prone on the ground, WLBT-TV reported.
Bryant issued his condemnation Saturday in a tweet.
The performance was held at the high school in Brookhaven where two police officers were killed in the line of duty Sept. 29 responding to a call of shots fired, the station reported
Brookhaven’s mayor said the band director was placed on administrative leave, the station reported.
Reports said the performance was based loosely on the movie “John Q,” in which a father played by Denzel Washington takes patients at a hospital hostage in order to secure treatment for his son.
“The band’s performance does not depict the values and people in our community, and was incredibly insensitive to the students, families, law enforcement officials and the entire Brookhaven community,” Jackson superintendent Errick Greene said.
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17 comments:
How did this ever get a stamp of approval from actual adults before it went live?
What the hell. Just play pucker up and play John Philip Sousa children.
In today's society, how did this not get disapproval from at least 1 band member? Today, there is always one in the group who is always opposite of everyone else.
Horrible.
11:10 AM ha ha ha, really? take a wild guess.
racism will always survive with stupid shit like this.
What the hell do you expect from this crowd? You don't think they can be domesticated do you? If so you have been existing with your head up your ---.
Can you imagine the outrage and media coverage if this was done by white students?
Funny how we've become so excepting of half you know what reporting
Good thing they didn't use a poptart in the shape of a gun they would have been suspended! I thought there was zero tolerance for guns in a school zone. Fake or not they are not allowed on school grounds.
Dumbing down of America is really getting out of control.
Black privlage
The band's director should be FIRED and the band shut down for the remainder of the school year. But I'm just a white man spouting off with my white privilege.
This BS is being taught in most schools.
Each one should be expelled for bringing fake guns to school. It was just last year some second grader was suspended or expelled for making a simple gun hand gesture.
It goes without saying that whomever approved this show should be fired. However, suspension or expulsion is not enough for those that students that participated. I think it's best to match the consequences to the offense. I would sentence those kids to real community service, which would be doing yard work and odd jobs for the families of the murdered police officers. Maybe at least a few would get why what they did was wrong and then hopefully the officers' families would be helped as well.
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