Alabama band director tased after football game says 'no educator should ever have to experience that'

The Alabama band director who was shocked by a police stun gun and arrested after refusing to stop his band's performance at a high school football game said the post-game songs had been arranged ahead of time and the whole experience has left him traumatized.

"I should have never been tased. It was excessive," Johnny Mims, the Minor High School band director, said in a news conference Tuesday. "No educator should ever have to experience that."

Mims said he is most concerned for the students who had to witness the incident, saying, "They are the most important thing in this situation."

"It's heartbreaking. It's traumatizing. It's difficult," he said. "There's no way to explain how I'm doing, because I know that my students are hurting."

After the incident, Mims was taken to the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital and then to the Birmingham City Jail, where he was booked and later bonded out. Officers obtained arrest warrants for disorderly conduct, harassment and resisting arrest, police said.

"Regardless of how this may have started, there's nothing that happened that would have warranted my client being tased multiple times, even while on the ground like some total criminal, at that point in front of 145 students," Mims' attorney Juandalynn Givan said Tuesday on CNN This Morning. "Those kids were traumatized."

Mims said he and the band director from PD Jackson-Olin High School, where the football game took place, had agreed to continue playing music after the game ended.