Moment tuba player punches out heckler during performance
The brutal confrontation happened at Saturday's game between Texas Southern University and Jackson State University, two historically black colleges in the south.
A was knocked out after heckling a college marching band’s tuba player during a football game on Saturday.
The brutal confrontation happened at Saturday’s game between Texas Southern University and Jackson State University, two historically black colleges in the south.
In video circulated on social media, a man can be seen screaming in the face of a member of Texas Southern’s ‘Ocean of Soul’ Marching Band as they played in the stands.
In one video taken by the heckler, the band member tells him to ‘f—k off’ before pushing him out of the way.
The heckler returns, but the tuba player responds by punching him in the face at least four times. The heckler collapses after the fourth blow.
The tuba player continued playing immediately after the confrontation, seamlessly rejoining the band.
It is unclear how the fight started, or if either person was seriously injured in the scuffle.
Metro.co.uk has reached out to the Ocean of Soul Marching Band for further comment.
Texas Southern and Jackson State are football conference rivals in the Southwestern Athletic Conference. Jackson State managed a narrow victory on Saturday, with a score of 21-19.
It is not the first instance of violence during a school band’s performance at a football game this year.
In September, a high school band director was tasered and arrested after he refused to stop conducting his band after the end of a football game.
Johnny Mims, the band director at Minor High School in Adamsville, Alabama was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after the incident.
The confrontation was captured in a shocking video that left many questioning why such tactics were necessary.
‘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,’ his lawyer Juandalynn Givan said.
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