Mississippi High School's Halftime Show Depicted A Recent Police Shooting

A high school in Mississippi has the community in a uproar after putting on a halftime show this past weekend where members of the pep band depicted a police shooting just a week after two police officers were killed in the line of duty. Per the Clarion-Ledger...

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A halftime performance in Brookhaven by the Forest Hill High School Band where students appear to draw fake guns on police officers has ignited an emotional response from the city where two police officers were killed in the line of duty last week.

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JPS Superintendent Errick Greene said the scene was a loose reenactment of the movie "John Q."...

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"JPS has a great deal of respect and appreciation for our law enforcement partners. 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," JPS said in a statement. "For this we sincerely apologize to all, and we pledge to do better in the future. "

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Patrolman James White, 35, and Cpl. Zach Moak, 31, were killed on Sept. 29. The officers were responding to a report of shots fired at a house. Read more here.
(Clarion-Ledger)