Posted on 09/28/2015 9:37:50 AM PDT by Fundamentally Fair
The former McKinney officer who drew national attention to the city after pushing a black teen to the ground while breaking up a pool party had a disciplinary record with the Police Department.
Eric Casebolt resigned in June after a video of the pool party went viral. The Texas Rangers said Thursday that they’re still investigating the incident at Craig Ranch, an upscale neighborhood on the west side of McKinney.
Casebolt’s personnel file shows that McKinney police had reprimanded him three times during his 10-year career with the department. He was disciplined for a Facebook post, for his behavior at a disturbance call involving him and his ex-girlfriend, and for using a police car and uniform on personal business. The city of McKinney released the documents to The Dallas Morning News late Friday after the newspaper filed an open-records request.
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Last year, Casebolt received a written reprimand over a Facebook post he wrote about a call regarding a suicidal 16-year-old boy at a golf course.
I love how the focus is entirely on the officer, and not on the behavior of the young adults present. I wonder when the media will once again recognize that people of color are people again? Of course, they’d be outraged over such a question - but what else do you call it? It is only animals which we outright excuse any and all behaviors in public.
Media, stop being ‘understanding’ and return to actually reporting what happened. Stop making wholesale excuses and once again see people as humans, not animals.
He should be removed from contact with the public for this video alone.
Put him on total admin duties (if it exists) but keep him off the streets.
While other pairs of officers were walking calmly around, watching and assessing the scene this dumbf*** was racing back and forth like an idiot ESCALATING the situation every place he went.
He runs to the left- there are screams and kids running from the left... her runs to the right, more screaming... finally he gets his hand on one who “disrepc’ his authoritah” and tosses her on the ground... two kids start to jump in in what APPEARS (to me) to be a knee-jerk reaction to help her, and he DRAWS A GUN on them...
Get him off the streets before he actually kills someone.
I still support that cop.
"Young Adults" is a very charitable description of the feral yutes I saw on the video. Casebolt never should have resigned. He should have made them fire him and then sued. I imagine a jury in that county, especially if they had any experience with those type of "young adults" would be very sympathetic to the officer.
I support cops over violent primitives, for instance primitives who pimp out their own daughters as whores which is what the main black perp was doing that day, not in her ghetto but in regular America.
Ever wonder why the flyer called them “dime bag girls”?
I want people like that kept far away from my family. That is what police are for.
What does his disciplinary record have to do with the rowdiness of the crowd? Under the circumstances I think he did the right thing.
The feral “yutes” deserved to have their skulls thumped... but the cop in the video looked like an untrained amateur who was no in control of his own emotions. I’m not in favor of his removal because he pushed a black thugette in a bikini, I’m in favor of his removal for every other reaction and move he made in those videos.
Exactly. Those are minor offenses cited, How about the inexcusable behavior of the young jackas*es who incited the whole thing?
“....breaking up a pool party...”
Or:
Dealing with a large crowd that was illegally trespassing on private property, fighting with legal patrons of the pool, crawling up and down the fence, etc.
Your post is misleading. He was “racing back and forth like an idiot ESCALATING the situation” (as you put it) because he was the only cop there initially and the copy you see walking around calmly came later and possibly during the incident with the black girl who was not listening to his directions. Other black kids who listened and sat down or left had no problems with this cop. As far as the gun, the two “kids” came up behind the cop, presenting a threat. As far as I am concerned, he was right in pulling his gun as he didn’t know what their intent was and he didn’t point it at either guy. It is pretty easy for you to sit in your armchair and say what he should/shouldn’t have done without being in the fray. I say get the damn black kids under control - black parents - and this kind of thing will become more rare.
Several actual witnesses have come forward saying the video.doesn’t display what was actually happening and that the officer was justified.
Here in N Tx there have been many many videos coming out to show the treachery of the police until the police release the dash cam or personal video showing it was all a lie.
I believe that this is happening because Black Lives Matter isn’t making good progress here in TX and it’s a way to gin up support.
We have even had so called pastors coming out saying they were threatened during stops they conveniently reported it.around 10-12 days after 5he incident as many large.pds write over their cams if there isn’t an issue.
They learned quickly that many smaller ones don’t and whoops it shows the whole thing was made up
If that girl had been my daughter, I would have told her that his reaction to her was justified because she wasn’t complying. I also would have told her that he did not hurt her and probably prevented a possible injury by shaking the fight out of her. A lot of people don’t know that particular tactic is used to get people to stop resisting and to comply.
The two kids, I had heard three, were possibly planning to jump the officer and nobody knows beyond that what they were intending to do. Maybe nothing, maybe trying to hospitalize the officer. An officer cannot assume that it isn’t anything. He always has to assume in that situation that his life is in danger.
I agree.
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