UPDATE 6:53 pm: At a press conference this evening, McKinney Police Chief Greg Conley called Casebolt’s actions “indefensible.”
“As the video shows, he was out of control during the incident,” he said. “I had 12 officers on the scene and 11 of them performed according to their training.”
“As the video shows, he was out of control during the incident,” he said. “I had 12 officers on the scene and 11 of them performed according to their training.”
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[h=1]MCKINNEY BLACK PASTOR: ‘I UNDERSTAND WHY THE OFFICER DREW HIS GUN’[/h]
Photo: YouTube/Brandon Brooks
by BOB PRICE9 Jun 2015802
McKINNEY, Texas – A local pastor told Breitbart Texas he understood why a McKinney police officer pulled his gun on the two young men who charged towards him as he was attempting to detain a teenage girl. The comment from the pastor, who did not give his name, came during a conversation just prior to Monday night’s march by activists through the McKinney community of Craig Ranch.
“I understand why he pulled his gun,” the pastor told this writer. “A large number of people were charging up to him and he had reason to be afraid.”
While he was attempting to gain control of the girl, who continued resisting, several people – including two older teenage males – charged towards the officer. The two males were particularly aggressive, and one was seen reaching to his waistband on his left side. They charged towards the officer on his gun side, which would put him in a state of concern for control of his weapon, other officers have told Breitbart Texas.
The pastor said he disagreed with the officer’s decision to take the teenage girl to the ground, but he said again that he understood the fear the officer likely felt when being aggressively charged.
He said that children of color are taught to fear the police. “We don’t teach that in my church,” he said, “but unfortunately, many are raised to fear the police.” He said that was likely why the girl was resisting.
He said he teaches children in his congregation to comply with police, even when they believe the police are wrong. He said he teaches them that the street is not the place to challenge police officers. “If they are wrong, file a complaint later, but don’t fight with police,” the pastor said.
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by BOB PRICE9 Jun 2015802
McKINNEY, Texas – A local pastor told Breitbart Texas he understood why a McKinney police officer pulled his gun on the two young men who charged towards him as he was attempting to detain a teenage girl. The comment from the pastor, who did not give his name, came during a conversation just prior to Monday night’s march by activists through the McKinney community of Craig Ranch.
“I understand why he pulled his gun,” the pastor told this writer. “A large number of people were charging up to him and he had reason to be afraid.”
Two young men charge police officer as he attempts to detain teenage girl. Note the position of the young man in the blue shirt’s left hand. (Photo: YouTube/Brandon Brooks)
The officer was attempting to detain a teenage girl who repeatedly refused orders to leave. After telling the girl he was detaining her for non-compliance, she resisted his attempts to control her, and he was forced to wrestle the bikini-clad girl to the ground.While he was attempting to gain control of the girl, who continued resisting, several people – including two older teenage males – charged towards the officer. The two males were particularly aggressive, and one was seen reaching to his waistband on his left side. They charged towards the officer on his gun side, which would put him in a state of concern for control of his weapon, other officers have told Breitbart Texas.
The pastor said he disagreed with the officer’s decision to take the teenage girl to the ground, but he said again that he understood the fear the officer likely felt when being aggressively charged.
He said that children of color are taught to fear the police. “We don’t teach that in my church,” he said, “but unfortunately, many are raised to fear the police.” He said that was likely why the girl was resisting.
He said he teaches children in his congregation to comply with police, even when they believe the police are wrong. He said he teaches them that the street is not the place to challenge police officers. “If they are wrong, file a complaint later, but don’t fight with police,” the pastor said.
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I would like to know the number of cops that have quit the job nation wide in the last 6 months.
Not the job you want now a days that`s for sure.
You can go from being a cop to a suspect in a matter of minutes....Bunch of bullshit.
Not the job you want now a days that`s for sure.
You can go from being a cop to a suspect in a matter of minutes....Bunch of bullshit.
+10
I haven’t watch the videos posted here however I saw one on TV of the cop is telling the girl, “you’re leaving” as he escorted her across the street.
Next thing she’s back yapping at him. If she would have just kept walking non of this would have gone down.
She deserved to be cuffed. If for no other reason to be taught a lesson.
Jessica Williams films McKinney 'Daily Show' segment in bikini, body armor
Texas race relations skewered after officer pulls gun on unarmed teens at pool party
Jessica Williams skewered race relations in McKinney, Texas, on "The Daily Show" Monday, three days after a white police officer called to a disturbance at a pool party was seen throwing a bikini-clad girl to the ground and pulling his gun on two others.
Williams — aka "Senior Texas Aquatics Correspondent" — reported "live" from McKinney wearing a bikini over full body armor.
“This week’s incident has taught black people here something valuable,” Williams told host Jon Stewart. “When you go to a pool party, even in your own neighborhood that you live in, you have to know pool etiquette, which is no running, no splashing, no talking back, and, if at all possible, get your ass even further to the ground than it already is.”
When Stewart suggested that pool parties should be fun and involve "super soakers," Williams was shocked.
"A water gun at a Texas pool party? Are you trying to get me killed?" she said.
"It's Texas — people are always waving guns around," Stewart replied.
"Uh, no," she said. "White people are and they call it 'open carry.' For black people it's called 'He's got a gun! He's got a gun! He's got a gun!'"
The officer involved in Friday's melee, 41-year-old Eric Casebolt, was placed on administrative leave. Dajerria Becton, the teenage girl he pushed to the ground, said she had been an invited guest at the party and was obeying his orders to leave when he grabbed her.
"He grabbed me, twisted my arm on my back and shoved me in the grass and started pulling the back of my braids," Becton told KDFW-TV. "I was telling him to get off me because my back was hurting bad."
She was ultimately released to her parents, police said, and there were no reports of injuries.
Video of the incident sparked outrage on social media, drawing comparisons to recent high-profile cases of police bias in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore.
But Williams said it actually represents progress.
"It’s progress because a cop pulled a gun on a group of black kids, and nobody is dead.”
Texas race relations skewered after officer pulls gun on unarmed teens at pool party
Jessica Williams skewered race relations in McKinney, Texas, on "The Daily Show" Monday, three days after a white police officer called to a disturbance at a pool party was seen throwing a bikini-clad girl to the ground and pulling his gun on two others.
Williams — aka "Senior Texas Aquatics Correspondent" — reported "live" from McKinney wearing a bikini over full body armor.
“This week’s incident has taught black people here something valuable,” Williams told host Jon Stewart. “When you go to a pool party, even in your own neighborhood that you live in, you have to know pool etiquette, which is no running, no splashing, no talking back, and, if at all possible, get your ass even further to the ground than it already is.”
When Stewart suggested that pool parties should be fun and involve "super soakers," Williams was shocked.
"A water gun at a Texas pool party? Are you trying to get me killed?" she said.
"It's Texas — people are always waving guns around," Stewart replied.
"Uh, no," she said. "White people are and they call it 'open carry.' For black people it's called 'He's got a gun! He's got a gun! He's got a gun!'"
The officer involved in Friday's melee, 41-year-old Eric Casebolt, was placed on administrative leave. Dajerria Becton, the teenage girl he pushed to the ground, said she had been an invited guest at the party and was obeying his orders to leave when he grabbed her.
"He grabbed me, twisted my arm on my back and shoved me in the grass and started pulling the back of my braids," Becton told KDFW-TV. "I was telling him to get off me because my back was hurting bad."
She was ultimately released to her parents, police said, and there were no reports of injuries.
Video of the incident sparked outrage on social media, drawing comparisons to recent high-profile cases of police bias in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore.
But Williams said it actually represents progress.
"It’s progress because a cop pulled a gun on a group of black kids, and nobody is dead.”
Some of you guys talk about policing like it's just a case of "know your textbook". Are you crazy? Like to see your whimpy asses in an unruly crowd situation. One cop. Tens of hostile or potentially hostile people. Let me clue you in, he's not gonna wait to find out who the threats are. You'd better comply with his orders as he attempts to do his job. Anyone from any decent upbringing understands that. But today's black youth are becoming empowered by the month it seems. Why? Because those in authority are demonizing the cops.
I put the blame squarely on the shoulders of our racist, divisive President and his Attorney General, Holder. I expected this guy to complete the unision that for me and my white family and friends had been 50 years in the making. To be the uniter that he campaigned to be. Instead he has inflamed every high profile newsmaking situation that involved the cops and race, starting with his (black) friend Gates in Cambridge where he said the (white) police acted stupidly when they were on a call to protect the guy's property, to Ferguson, where he sent THREE Administration representatives to the funeral of a black thug who died in an attempt to disarm and physically accost a police officer doing his duty, intervening with the Department of Justice in an unveiled attempt to indict said white police officer. You may recall that he was absolved of any wrongdoing by a grand jury. Instead of being honored as a hero for putting his life on the line for his community he was forced to resign. Of course Baltimore followed and the black Mayor stood in front of the world and said that she gave the thugs "time to destroy" while she told her police force to stand down while the animals pelted them with rocks, trashed, and burned their community.
This Country has never been more racially divided in my lifetime. And the worst part is that black people not only now feel entitled to my tax dollars toi support (many of) them but also feel entitled to be lawless without any tough response from the law. And they're gonna get it too. What cop is gonna do his job, where he already puts his life on the line, but now puts his job on the line?
The worst part is that I'm not sure how we put this sickness back in the bottle. Everybody has video cameras these days. If that McKinney cop's actions are grounds for dismissal (and maybe lawsuits) who is gonna do the right thing going forward? Who?
We need strong black leadership to get this all back in perspective. Where is that going to come from?
The society is coming apart at the seems right in front of our eyes.
I put the blame squarely on the shoulders of our racist, divisive President and his Attorney General, Holder. I expected this guy to complete the unision that for me and my white family and friends had been 50 years in the making. To be the uniter that he campaigned to be. Instead he has inflamed every high profile newsmaking situation that involved the cops and race, starting with his (black) friend Gates in Cambridge where he said the (white) police acted stupidly when they were on a call to protect the guy's property, to Ferguson, where he sent THREE Administration representatives to the funeral of a black thug who died in an attempt to disarm and physically accost a police officer doing his duty, intervening with the Department of Justice in an unveiled attempt to indict said white police officer. You may recall that he was absolved of any wrongdoing by a grand jury. Instead of being honored as a hero for putting his life on the line for his community he was forced to resign. Of course Baltimore followed and the black Mayor stood in front of the world and said that she gave the thugs "time to destroy" while she told her police force to stand down while the animals pelted them with rocks, trashed, and burned their community.
This Country has never been more racially divided in my lifetime. And the worst part is that black people not only now feel entitled to my tax dollars toi support (many of) them but also feel entitled to be lawless without any tough response from the law. And they're gonna get it too. What cop is gonna do his job, where he already puts his life on the line, but now puts his job on the line?
The worst part is that I'm not sure how we put this sickness back in the bottle. Everybody has video cameras these days. If that McKinney cop's actions are grounds for dismissal (and maybe lawsuits) who is gonna do the right thing going forward? Who?
We need strong black leadership to get this all back in perspective. Where is that going to come from?
The society is coming apart at the seems right in front of our eyes.
I just feel for cops right now. It's a tough deal doing what they do and seeing what they see. Little kids being sexually abused, suicides, murders and then you have to deal with a bunch of fucking stupid kids at a pool party? Nobody got time for that.
The neighborhood, she is a changing.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/new-black-panthers-nation-islam-arrive-mckinney-keep-peace
The word on social media is that members of the New Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam have arrived in McKinney, Texas, the site of a videotaped incident last week in which a white police officer is seen manhandling a black teenage girl at a pool party that apparently attracted what one witness called "a large, aggressive crowd" to participate in protests against the police.
Officer Eric Casebolt, who was originally placed on leave pending an investigation, has since submitted his resignation and is now in hiding due to threats. But protesters began blocking streets and targeting the police department nonetheless, chanting, "We can't swim, you can't drive. McKinney." Twitchy reported that members of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam and the New Black Panther Party "are in town" and "are walking through the neighborhood right now!" according to one.
I’ll bet the residents of McKinney are absolutely thrilled.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/new-black-panthers-nation-islam-arrive-mckinney-keep-peace
The word on social media is that members of the New Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam have arrived in McKinney, Texas, the site of a videotaped incident last week in which a white police officer is seen manhandling a black teenage girl at a pool party that apparently attracted what one witness called "a large, aggressive crowd" to participate in protests against the police.
Officer Eric Casebolt, who was originally placed on leave pending an investigation, has since submitted his resignation and is now in hiding due to threats. But protesters began blocking streets and targeting the police department nonetheless, chanting, "We can't swim, you can't drive. McKinney." Twitchy reported that members of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam and the New Black Panther Party "are in town" and "are walking through the neighborhood right now!" according to one.
I’ll bet the residents of McKinney are absolutely thrilled.
