http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/07/us/mckinney-texas-pool-video-police/index.html
Wow! Glad nothing tragic occurred!
just great… more trigger happy cops overreacting…
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I watched those videos earlier and was dumfounded at the approach taken. I couldn’t tell what prompted him to get the young woman in the bikini down on the ground in cuffs other than not clearing off quickly enough but jeezo pete that seems like an overreaction.
The kids said they were at a birthday party. I’m wondering it they will eventually identify a young person in the neighborhood who was hosting a gathering. Obviously someone in the neighborhood decided that they didn’t belong but they certainly look like regular, clean cut kids dressed and equipped for an afternoon at the pool. One young man detained on the ground is asking his friend to check for his towel.
It’s just awful what the cop did to that young girl. Repeatedly grabbing her by the neck and throwing her down, and then kneeling on her back with both knees! Did they learn anything from Freddie Gray?
And the young man who tried to stop it and then ran off is brought back and he can barely walk and looks to be spitting blood. Wonderful.
All the kids there and only the AA ones are treated badly.
ETA: also, some young AA boys were interacting positively with the other two cops, and returning a flashlight or something that crazy cop had dropped. All that was ruined when crazy cop ran over and yelled at them to get down.
that was appalling. Anyone catch the unnecessary barrel roll the crazy cop does in the beginning of the full video? obviously, he thinks he’s in a video game. 
^^^ I think he just tripped.
ETA: I friend with a large, national following posted about this on her FB page, and the locals say the whole story hasn’t been told. Supposedly, some neighborhood kids sold guest passes into the pool, and the HOA parents were angry that all these kids (black kids) who don’t belong to the HOA were there. It started with racist remarks by a white mom about going back to Section 8 housing, escalated into a physical altercation between the mom and one of the black girls and things continued downhill from there. And supposedly, this private party was advertised on Twitter and talked about it being BYOWeed, etc. I’m not saying I believe any of that, but that’s the supposed other side of the story. Of course, what the video clearly shows is that only the black kids were handcuffed, taken down, etc. Multiple people have talked about how these “parties” are becoming a regular occurrence. Again, take this FB chatter with a grain of salt, but my question is why don’t they go after the kids selling the passes to the neighborhood pool?
Yup, saw this appalling video earlier today.
Whatever do you mean? Don’t you know that if you hold those responsible for law enforcement overreach, well…responsible, it will result in law enforcement altogether declining to serve and protect because, well, you know…they might get in trouble?
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Here’s a view of what started it . . .
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/07/texas-pool-party_n_7530502.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013
I guess that short cop feared for his life so out came the gun. Will we ever get mature behavior and common sense from trained police officers who are supposed to be professionals at their trade? The offending cop is now on a paid vacation.
From the video I’ve seen, the cop was out of control.
I was going to post what somebody who is an EMT posted on his FB page about how these guys have his back everyday and that the policeman feared for his life and had to do what he did and that it had nothing to do with race. But when I went back to look at it, he had taken it down. Apparently not many agreed with him.
Feared for his life? could those kids look anymore polite, scared and non-threatening? (Oh yeah, of course they could, if they were white. /sarcasm).
I totally agree with you. I was so surprised to see someone with that attitude that I was going to share his opinion but others must have disagreed with him even more and made him take it down.
I just looked at the video again, and I’m at a loss for words. I see a cop rounding up the kids of color who were doing nothing, while other kids, many of whom were their friends are allowed to mill about. And who was the big guy in the shorts, acting as if he had a badge? The girl was sitting on the ground. Why was it necessary to grab her, fling her to the ground, and put your knees in her back?
On fb, people claiming to be residents say that kids were crashing the party - climbing over the pool fence, because they had been sold “tickets” by someone.
Afaik, for most HOAs, there are rules about hosting parties on HOA facilities. Someone is going to get a hefty fine is my guess, if a resident is involved.
A very sober opinion piece from the Dallas Morning News.
http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/a-shame-for-mckinney-and-for-all-of-us.html/
Officer Casebolt better have ample justification for what he did. As the author points out, these were kids behaving rambunctiously (reportedly SOME, A HANDFUL of them) at a pool party. No surprise there, as he stated, tongue in cheek. There were no reports of criminal activity or danger. And if reports are accurate, the girl whom was manhandled is a resident of this subdivision and a legitimate “member” of the pool.
Casebolt appears to roar in like he is still on tour on the battlefield, clearly disrupting the calm that other officers had established. When you think about, Casebolt is the person whose actions endangered his fellow police officers. Jeez, what if his gun had fired? Notice how one other officer at least momentarily tried to restrain Casebolt.
meant to say 'when you think about it…"
Y’all live sheltered lives. I’ve seen a gun pulled at a youth soccer game. At least this guy was a cop doing his job…
Well, part of the responsibility for this lies with whoever called the police in the first place. My three boys (age 12, 13 and 15 at the time) almost had a similar incident happen to them this past Christmas eve. They were playing with big, plastic yellow nerf guns at the local park and someone decided to call the police on them. The caller told the police that my sons’ guns were “airguns” (some of which can be hard to distinguish from real guns), but failed to mention their color (yellow) and composition (plastic). She did, however, make sure to mention my children’s hair texture (“bushy”, which, of course, indicated to officers that they are black). Three officers showed up to investigate. Thankfully, the situation was diffused within about 2 or 3 minutes of my boys insisting–politely–that the yellow toy guns were the only ones they possessed (the officers started off by asking where my boys had stashed their real guns). Because of the 911 caller’s omissions, my son’s could have been killed. Thank God I had “had the talk” with them several times about how to respond to any police inquiry (no sudden movements, let them see all five fingers, etc.). This could easily have become another Tamir Rice situation (x3).