A high school band director was tased by cops at a football game after he refused orders to stop his musicians from playing

• A band director ignored police requests to stop performing at the end of a football game.
• After he told his band to keep playing, police attempted to arrest him, the New York Post reported.
• He was tased by police when he resisted arrest, the police said in a statement.

The director of a high school band in Alabama was arrested and tased by police after he ignored their repeated requests to stop his students' music performance at the end of a football game, a statement from Birmingham police department says.