The bikini-clad black teenage girl seen in a 2015 video where a white police officer wrestled her to the ground at a Texas pool party filed a federal lawsuit claiming the officer used excessive force. She seeks $5 million in damages.
A grand jury in Collin County, Texas, decided evidence presented against former McKinney Police Officer Eric Casebolt was inadequate to warrant an indictment. The former 10-year McKinney police veteran was seen in last summer’s McKinney pool party gone wild YouTube video wrestling a young black girl to the ground.
Last Thursday, Breitbart Texas reported that Tracey Carver-Allbritton –a woman involved with the recent McKinney pool fight incident- was placed on administrative leave from her company. Stephen Benavides, the mastermind behind the leftist Twitter campaign that abruptly dismantled Carver-Allbritton’s livelihood, is a current activist and former Occupy Dallas organizer who is no stranger when it comes to violence and ending up on the wrong side of the law.
Alexis Goldstein, Communications Director for The Other 98%, declared the US has “a system of white supremacy” on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time.” Goldstein, in a discussion on the events in McKinney, TX, stated, “we have a system of
The fallout from the McKinney pool party viral video controversy continues, as social media-based Social Justice Warriors seek more scalps.
A high school principal in Miami was removed because of short, civil comments he made on the website of a newspaper discussing the McKinney “pool party” video, after his comments became the focus of criticism from others, including a gay, Obama supporting ex-cop.
Approximately 150 people peacefully rallied in McKinney for “accountability” in the aftermath of the Craig Ranch subdivision pool party fiasco. It was an ethnically diverse cross-section of a relatively middle-to-upper middle class suburbia.
Some of the conflict between interpretations of what happened in McKinney appears to be more generational than racial.
In a strangely-worded statement at a press conference in McKinney, Texas on Monday, a Dallas pastor appears to warn that open carry laws may lead to terrorism by “us” against law enforcement.
Homeowners in the neighborhood who were witnesses to the ruckus at the McKinney, Texas, neighborhood community pool both defended the officers who have been attacked about their handling of the situation, and thanked them for coming to their aid and keeping them safe.
We are meant to imagine an innocent, if perhaps a bit high-spirited, gathering of cheerful teens interrupted by a brutal racist cop, who couldn’t wait to find the nearest young lady of color and body-slam her for fun. The reality seems a bit more… nuanced.
