McKinney Pool Fight was started by White Neighbors
who racially slurred, attacked Black Kids
Originally this story was presented as a case of "unruly, trespassing kids" when video of McKinney Texas police chasing, verbally abusing a group of black kids who were attending a pool part after Officer Eric Casebolt was suspended for wrestling an unarmed teenage girl in a bikini to the ground. This was the initial statement from the McKinney Police Dept.
Pool Party Incident:
On June 5, 2015 at approximately 7:15 p.m., officers from the McKinney Police Department responded to a disturbance at the Craig Ranch North Community Pool. The initial call came in as a disturbance involving multiple juveniles at the location, who do not live in the area or have permission to be there, refusing to leave. McKinney Police received several additional calls related to this incident advising that juveniles were now actively fighting.
But that wasn't what really happened.
It appears that this situation wasn't because of a "fight" started between a group of "unruly" black kids - the fight actually started when a white couple came into an ongoing party of classmates and kids who all lived in the area to verbally abuse them with racial slurs ("black fuckers"), insulted them ("go back to your section 8 housing"), and slapped the teenage girl who hosted the party after she tried to defend a 14-year-old white girl who was also at the party and had stood up to them.
Then those people left and called the police on the party claiming the black kids were fighting each other, so of course then this happens...
The Cops show up to attack and abuse the kids who were invited to the party and who had been previously attacked and insulted by the people who called the cops in the first place because they supposedly "weren't where they belonged".
Welcome to Texas.
Videos and more over the flip.
Here's is the initial video which led to the suspension, in it you can see Casebolt and other Officers chasing the kids, cursing at them, telling some (the girls) to leave, telling others (the boys) to sit, then when one girl clad only in a bikini doesn't leave quickly enough (she's apparently looking for something, perhaps her clothes or purse, I think she says "call my momma") he throws her to the ground and sits on her back before cuffing her, he even briefly unholsters his weapon and points it at the crowd of kids as he chases them.
Considering how and why they were called to the scene, this tableau becomes a perfect example of police becoming the enforcement arm of white privilege and presumption.
Far from being "unruly" you can actually see the (apparently white) kid filming this video pickup and return a flashflight to one Officer after Casebolt trips and falls while chasing some other kids. I see the cops doing a lot of shouting and screaming and threatening at the black kids while white kids walk about freely and film the video without police paying any attention to them at all. Black kids are being told to "leave", some do and some don't perhaps because they actually live in this area so they being told to go where exactly, away from their homes?
I honestly didn't know what to make of it when I first saw it. The confrontation with the girl in the bikini begins when the videographer is too far away to document how it initiates, and exactly what set Officer Casebolt off - but it's clear from his haughty and dismissive tone that he's not in a friendly or open-minded mood.
Shown without context, some people have rallied to the support of police while supporting the notion that any black kids is by definition a "dangerous armed suspect" and deserves this kind of physical and verbal abuse even if they're only wearing a bikini.
