High School Band Director Suspended After Students Pretend to Hold Police Officers Hostage

Zach Moak, left, and James White, Brookhaven police officers, were shot to death on Sept. 29, 2018. A high school band's performance including a depiction of holding officers hostage came just one day after Moak's funeral, on Oct. 5, 2018. Mississippi Department of Public Safety

A high school band director in Mississippi has been suspended from his duties after members of the band during a performance portrayed doctors and nurses holding police officers at gunpoint during a halftime show on Friday, Oct. 5.

The shocking depiction came during a performance by the Forest Hills High School marching band during a halftime show at a football game in Brookhaven, about 60 miles south of Jackson.