A Mississippi community has erupted in controversy, after a high school marching band performed a halftime skit featuring doctors using toy assault weapons to kill police officers.
The skit was performed by members of the Forest Hill High School marching band during a game against Brookhaven High in Brookhaven, Mississippi, according to the Daily Leader.
The skit featured students wearing medical scrubs and using toy rifles to shoot down other students dressed as police officers. The paper said that the teens were enacting a scene from the movie John Q.
Many were incensed by the skit since it came less than a week after two Brookhaven police officers were killed in the line of duty.
According to WLBT TV, one Forest Hill fan apologized on social media saying, “I can’t even imagine what the citizens of Brookhaven must have felt. My prayers are with you all. I’m so sorry that this disgraceful band performed so inconsiderable.”
“At no point in time is this acceptable,” Susan Mathes May added to the Facebook posting. “At any school, at any performance, in any town.”
Thus far, officials from the Jackson Public School System has not commented on the incident.
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