For people that haven't heard about the story and have no idea what it's about :
There was a '
pool party' at a residence in McKinney next to the community center and pool. The problem is that the pool is closed to non-residents. At any rate there was a DJ, lots of partying and several hundred teenagers many from outside the area came in for the party. The music was really, really loud, cars were parked everywhere and the party was real rowdy and some residents apparently didn't care for it or the content of the music and the pool part of the event was at a private fenced in pool set aside for residents only. It's one thing to invite another family or something over (even then at most community centers the residents still have to usually get permission, it's another for a few hundred people to descend on the pool and take it over).
Teenagers and some young adults started hopping the fence to get in to use the pool and a security guard tried to prevent this. Apparently a confrontation ensued, racial slurs were supposedly thrown at the two security guards and residents (who are mostly white) along with some cans and bottles by party-goers (who were mostly black). Neighbors (who were sick of the loud music which had gone on for quite awhile) stuck up for the security guards and to let the partiers know that they weren't too happy with the noise, drinking, property destruction and so on.
The confrontation escalated after the racial slurs and yelling along with bottles/objects being thrown at the security guards and one of the residents with some residents supposedly yelling at the party-goers '
Go back to your Section 8 Housing and get out of our pool'.
(As Background : Some years back the west side of McKinney which is mostly white and fairly affluent was sued for '
racial discrimination in housing' and a low cost Section 8 housing development was built to satisfy the settlement as the city didn't want to fight it anymore).
The police arrived in the middle of this with the neighbors and the security guards pointing out the people involved in the fight/assault and so the Police started detaining some people and telling others to leave the area. Not a whole lot of cops, bunch of party goers.
One cop (Officer Eric Casebolt) was somewhat more aggressive (actually doing his job rather than being '
Officer Friendly') in detaining some of the attendees of the party than the other cops present and was trying to detain as many as he could to sort out the situation.
One teenage girl was given a conflicting order (one cop telling her to leave the area, the other cop telling her to sit down). The most active Officer at the scene tried to get her on the ground, she resisted while screaming. Two males circled around to intervene, the officer obviously felt threatened enough to draw his weapon....they bolted.
These two guys...
So now apparently there's going to be a march and a demonstration of some sort.
The Latest on pool incident: Hundreds of demonstrators protest police actions at McKinney pool (*Click*)Fight/Assault that happened prior to the police arriving
Police detaining teens - The Officer starts to detain the teenage girl at 2:50 into the video and draws his weapon at 3:08
News Reports :
Apparently that night (Saturday night) some of the teens came back to the neighborhood to steal a car, vandalize cars in the neighborhood, kick in doors and to steal stuff. Or they're
guessing/assuming it's some of the teenagers, no arrests have been made that I'm aware of (it's in the Legal Insurrection link).
Video Analysis: McKinney Brawl Another Rush to Misjudgment? - Legal Insurrection (*Click*)
McKinney, Texas Cop Pulls Gun on 'Unarmed' Black Teens at Pool Party (*Click*)
Eric Casebolt: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know - Officer at pool party (*Click*)
Officer suspended after video - Pool party in McKinney TX (*Click*)
Goodwill and Civility Drown At The McKinney Pool Party (*Click*)----
Version of events from residents who called the police :
Michael Quattrin's version of events :
Here is the real scoop on what happened at the #CraigRanch pool party. - Twitter (*Click*)_______
Version of events from teenager who attended the party and was filming when the officer drew on the two males circling around who were trying to intervene when the teenage girl was being detained :
Brandon Brooks - 15 year old who shot video of McKinney Pool Party speaks out (*Click)In my mind it's much ado about nothing really.
Think about it this way :
If the attendees of the party were a crowd of rowdy white teenagers who were playing loud music, getting drunk and high, fighting with each other, trespassing in a community area that they had no business being and they then assaulted two security guards and a woman in front of her 3 kids and then when the cops got there they refused an order to disperse and just milled around like the party was going to re-start once they left I imagine the cops would've gotten a bit irritated and told everyone to sit on the curb and then eventually kicked them loose if they weren't going to be charged in one of the assaults.
I went to a shitload of parties when I was in my teens and twenties and once the cops showed up the party was over. End of story, we left and got fucked up someplace else.
If one of the chicks I knew back then was stupid enough to just not sit down on the grass for a couple mins when the cops told her to while they ran everyone and she started screaming and generally making a scene I'm sure not gonna catch an '
Assault on a Public Servant or Government Official' charge (which is a 3rd degree Felony and the possibility of 10 yrs in prison) on account of her dumb ass.
That's how I look at it anyway, but I threw in both sides and everything but the kitchen sink on news sources so everyone could decide for themselves. :Shrug
I'm thinking without the racial angle it's just about a group of rowdy teens without much respect for anyone or anything.
