Open season on cops-damned if they, do, damned if they don't. It's a no-win situation for the police nationwide.

[superbeets]

[h=1]White police officer suspended after cell phone footage showed him wrestling bikini-clad girl to ground and pulling gun on unarmed black teens who came to her aid[/h]

• A police officer in the Dallas-Fort Worth area has been suspended after video footage emerged showing him wrestle a bikini-clad girl to the ground
• Incident happened after McKinney Police Dept received several calls about a disturbance near the Craig Ranch North Community Pool on Friday
• The footage shows the one officer overreacting in a manner that does little to defuse the situation
• The officer can also be seen pointing his gun at a group of teenagers
• The footage was posted on YouTube on Saturday and the police force suspended the officer after viewing it
• Police officials said the officer's conduct had 'raised concerns'

PUBLISHED: 19:00, 7 June 2015 | UPDATED: 20:16, 7 June 2015




A police officer in the Dallas-Fort Worth area has been suspended after video footage emerged that shows him wrestle a bikini-clad girl to the ground and then point his gun at a group of unarmed teenagers.
The incident happened after McKinney Police Department received several calls on Friday night about a disturbance near the Craig Ranch North Community Pool.
Cell phone footage of the incident shows one officer arrive at the scene and start overreacting in a manner that does little to defuse the situation.


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[superbeets]

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An unnamed police officer in the Dallas-Fort Worth area has been suspended after video footage emerged that shows him wrestle a bikini-clad girl to the ground and then point his gun at a group of unarmed teenagers

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Cell phone footage of the incident shows one officer arrive at the scene and start overreacting in a manner that does little to defuse the situation






First the officer runs at a group of teenagers and then he performs a theatrical tumble. Next he can be seen pulling several teens to the ground and handcuffing them, despite the protests of several that they are there simply to attend a party.
According to the police report, the cops were called about a disturbance involving several juveniles at the pool who didn't have permission to be there and didn't live in the area.
The first officers to arrive at the pool encountered a large crowd of people who refused to obey orders to leave, reports KDFW.
Nine additional McKinney police units were sent to the pool and officers eventually got the situation under control, said the police.
The video footage appears to show a different story and at about the three-minute mark the out of control officer can be seen wrestling a young woman in a two-piece bathing suit to the ground.
The officer's behavior causes the situation to escalate as the girl's friends surround him and next he produces his gun.
One youth runs away and some of the other officers give chase, while the irrate officer now sits on the back of the young woman that he has been manhandling.

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[superbeets]

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The footage was posted on YouTube on Saturday and the police force suspended the officer after viewing it. Police officials said the officer's conduct had 'raised concerns'

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One youth runs away and some of the other officers give chase - when the teen is brought back he is bleeding from the mouth

Everyone in the video that the officer is abusive or physical toward is black, while the child filming the incident - who is white - is never asked to sit down and stop what he is doing






Later the other officers arrive back with the runaway, he is now bleeding from his mouth.
The cell phone footage, taken by one of the teens present, was uploaded to YouTube on Saturday.
'A fight between a mom and a girl broke out and when the cops showed up everyone ran, including the people who didn't do anything,' wrote Brandon Brooks.
'So the cops just started putting everyone on the ground and in handcuffs for no reason. This kind of force is uncalled for especially on children and innocent bystanders.'
Since being made aware of the footage, McKinney Police Department has placed the unnamed officer on administrative leave while an investigation is carried out.
Officials also said the officer's conduct had 'raised concerns.'
It isn't known if any of the teenagers seen in the video were arrested or charged.


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[superbeets]

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'This kind of force is uncalled for especially on children and innocent bystanders,' wrote Brandon Brooks who posted the footage online

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The officer can be seen pulling several teens to the ground and handcuffing them, despite the protests of several that they are there simply to attend a party






The incident appears to highlight an excessive use of force especially by police when dealing with African Americans.
Everyone in the video that the officer is abusive or physical toward is black, while the child filming the incident - who is white - is never asked to sit down and stop what he is doing.
McKinney is a city of about 140,000 people, located about 30 miles northeast of Dallas. It has a majority white population, while African Americans make up 10 percent of the population.

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[SgtLanquel]

Cops who do not physically assault or kill citizens without true justified cause should have no fear of cameras or video recorders.

What we are learning in this past 5+ years of active video recording of police on the Job is how many are simply incapable of defusing a disagreeable encounter without resorting to violence

 

[SgtLanquel]

Hero Cop Protects Texas From Black Teenagers At Pool Party


Friday was just another day in post-racial America, with a bunch of cops descending on a disturbance at a pool party in McKinney Texas and handcuffing a whole bunch of black kids who may mostly have been bystanders. One officer has been placed on leave after a YouTube Video showed him throwing a 14-year-old girl to the ground, pulling his gun on two male youths who approached, then pushing the girl’s face into the grass and kneeling on her back after some unknown provocation — probably being mouthy and not one of the white kids who “belonged” in the neighborhood. Happily, for a change, nobody’s dead or even shot, so there’s that.


The video begins with an impressive shot of one of the cops doing a barrel roll on the ground, either because he’d tripped or because he was just really excited to show off his sick moves; the same cop seems to be doing most of the shouting and trying to get people to leave the area, except for the kids who need to sit down and get handcuffed. It’s not at all clear why he grabs the girl in the swimsuit and throws her to the ground, but he probably had an excellent reason, which commenters at The Blaze and the Daily Caller will explain justifies a cop manhandling a 14-year-old girl and kneeing her in the back. For one thing, why did her family let her go out dressed like that? He’ll also no doubt be praised for his great restraint in not immediately shooting the two young men who approached him as he was pushing the girl’s face toward the ground. No doubt a Republican presidential candidate will blame it all on fatherlessness.


Well, fine, the media would have to go and make it a racial thing, just because of some mistaken assumptions about socioeconomic class, wouldn’t they? How did the teens know the comments were about race? Maybe the adults just assumed the kids lived in Section 8 housing because they had cell phones and a shopping cart full of crab legs, as the poors usually do.

 

[The Guesser]

Raw Footage by the guy who shot it. [video=youtube;R46-XTqXkzE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_1080253173&feature=iv&src_vid=ErxHsVAiIpo&v=R46-XTqXkzE[/video]

 

[The Guesser]

Some more:

 

[The Guesser]

Interview with the kid who shot the video. [video=youtube;fqQLRr3qoCw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fqQLRr3qoCw[/video]

 

[Enfuego]

Kids acting like a bunch of assholes. Cop responds and they still act like assholes and then start to come at him in an aggressive manner.

What the hell is he supposed to do?

 

[The Guesser]

Kids acting like a bunch of assholes. Cop responds and they still act like assholes and then start to come at him in an aggressive manner.

What the hell is he supposed to do?

The 15 year old girl that he wrestled to the ground, and sat on came at him in an aggressive manner?

 

[SmallDaddy]

This dumbass is not fit to be a cop.

I mean if he loses his cool in that kinda situation, which should have been as easy as it gets, just imagine how stupid he will act when its actually a dicey situation.

His gun needs to be taken away

 

[festeringZit]

[h=2]The Full Story of The McKinney Texas, Pool Mob – Inside The “Craig Ranch” Subdivision…[/h] Posted on June 8, 2015 by sundance
[h=2]Here’s The Story of The McKinney Pool Fiasco[/h] The Origin – The woman who organized the event in McKinney, Texas is named Tatiana Rhodes (or Tatyana Rhodes). She is approximately 19-years-old; however, she retains a fake id and has began scrubbing most of her social media accounts, so her exact age is undetermined. Update: confirmed profile DOB 04/02/1995, so Tatiana Rhodes is 20.
Tatiana had been promoting a party via twitter under the hashtag name “Dime Piece Cookout” for approximately a month. She planned the event at a sub-division called “Craig Ranch” in McKinney Texas.
Tatiana (pictured below left) lives in the sub-division with her mother Lashana Burkes (pictured right). Both appear to be natives of Chicago.


The Craig Ranch subdivision has a neighborhood park and a gated pool and clubhouse for residents. The pool and clubhouse is gated and a scan card is needed to gain access. (You an explore via google earth here)
The subdivision has a Homeowners Association (HOA) which regulates and controls the activities in/around the HOA swimming pool and clubhouse and has strict rules for use thereof.

In addition to HOA rules the local community has a resident magazine which provides information to Craig Ranch residents on events and reminders of activities. One of the recent articles covered the use of the recreational facilities to include the pool and clubhouse:

Neither Tatiana Rhodes nor her mother sought permission to use the pool or clubhouse area as part of the event. However, Tatiana hired a DJ and promoted the event to include a pool party:
There are numerous social media links reflecting that Tatiana organizes these “parties”, and charges for attendance, as a profit generating business. Her enterprise name is promoted under the auspices of “Twinzzpromotions” and uses the email address twinnzzpromotions@gmail.com:
However, the specific event last Friday was advertised as “free attendance” where Tatiana was passing out flyers and selling tickets for another event she was setting up for June 19.
Tatiana appears to reference herself as a “promoter” for the various parties she organizes as part of twinzzpromotions:
Her business profile says:
“want to throw a party but don’t know where to start – we do it all. Email us for models, promoters, party planners and more”.
The party on Friday was to promote “Make It Clap 2″, an event scheduled for June 19th (8pm to 1am) $5 advance Tix, $8 at event.
Tickets for MakeItClappPt.2 were being sold at the Craig Ranch party. Here’s the flyer for the June 19th event that was being promoted and handed out on Friday – link here:

The DJ (Andrew Cosby) also tweeted out before and during the Craig Ranch event that it was a pool party. DJReign aka Andrew Cosby is also now scrubbing media and hiding his profiles.



Pictured above, Tatiana and her mother Lashana Burkes setting up for the party, while tweeting out #dpcookout so far so good.
In addition to friends of Tatiana Rhodes, more than 100 additional people, mostly teens, showed up as a result of the advertising promoted by Tatiana on social media. They were dropped off by the car-load as the afternoon party began.
Apparently Tatiana and her mother Lashana were unable to control the growing crowd – who came to their event at the park looking for and expecting a “pool party”.
That’s when things got out of control as the 100+ teens (and young adults) turned into a mob of partygoers and began jumping the fence to the gated pool area. Residents within the neighborhood found themselves confronting a mob of teens growing ever increasingly hostile and agitated.
A local resident shares this version of events:


This version is also supported by other residents who called the police for help and were on the scene trying to get the teen mob under control.

 

[Enfuego]

The 15 year old girl that he wrestled to the ground, and sat on came at him in an aggressive manner?

He had no clue if she had a weapon or not.

 

[russ1945]

The cop got fed up. He was the first one on the scene. Should he have pulled his gun, hell no. Should the crowd have dispersed when told to do so by the police, hell yes. This one falls on the crowd. I think the cop should be disciplined for pulling the gun. Does anyone know if charges were filed against any of the youths.

 

[The Guesser]

He had no clue if she had a weapon or not.

Where was she hiding it? In her Bikini top? He wrestled her to the ground. He sat on her. Remember when you went crazy when Aki repeated some joke about some girls deserve to get hit. Well this idiot actually hit a girl, a teenage girl at that. For no reason other than maybe some verbal abuse. Come on dude.

 

[SgtLanquel]

Where was she hiding it? In her Bikini top? He wrestled her to the ground. He sat on her. Remember when you went crazy when Aki repeated some joke about some girls deserve to get hit. Well this idiot actually hit a girl, a teenage girl at that. For no reason other than maybe some verbal abuse. Come on dude.

The cop has reportedly resigned in shame, so it seems to be heading towards All's Well That Ends Well

 

[The Guesser]

The cop has reportedly resigned in shame, so it seems to be heading towards All's Well That Ends Well

Good. I'm glad the fool realizes how wrong he was, and he did the right thing and didn't drag this fiasco out. He does need to get charged though.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/mckinney-pool-party-cop-resigns-following-public-outcry/