Posted on 06/10/2015 5:57:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
One of the most unfortunate by-products of the McKinney, Texas, pool party aftermath is the lost opportunity for a constructive evaluation of police performance.
The now-infamous video says vastly different things to different people, but one thing stands out as a resounding majority view: Something went very wrong as an already tense situation was exacerbated by the language and behaviors of one police officer, Eric Casebolt, who resigned Tuesday.
So we are left to evaluate the reactions that led up this, which have ranged from measured to presumptuous to downright reckless.
In the era of Ferguson and Baltimore and the fraudulent narratives of “hands up, don’t shoot,” we are descending into an abyss where thoughtful, objective assessment of police actions is nearly extinct. How many milliseconds did it take before the first race-baiters rushed to affix the McKinney pool party story to a legacy of lynchings and Jim Crow?
Is this our eternal fate now? It was surely jarring to see this girl subjected what seems to be unnecessary manhandling by a police officer. But because he is white and she is black, the presumption was reflexively made that this was an incident of race-motivated police brutality.
No one should be blind to evidence of police racism if it actually arises. But nor should such evidence be concocted artificially to stoke a political agenda.
It would have been challenging enough to discern just when things went wrong, the moment the officer lost control and what he might have done better. In any controversy over police interactions with the public, that process can inform both police and citizens, leading to greater trust.
But such progress is hindered by hand-wringing proclamations that the pool party response was part of some deep societal evil that should drop us to our knees in collective shame.
Of course racism still exists. The tragedy of overreactions is that they impede what should be our shared effort to identify it when it actually arises. Every “Black Lives Matter” rally following an event with no driving racial motive fuels skepticism and a muted empathy when voices are lifted at the discovery of genuine racist misbehavior.
Behind closed doors, the officer and his superiors must have covered the rough road that lay ahead, some of it warranted because of his actions, some of it in anticipation of guaranteed troublemaking by hotheads with axes to grind.
We ask cops to display near-superhuman poise and professionalism when chaos is exploding around them. The good news is they virtually all succeed.
When one of them fails, a consequence is appropriate. But let history record that this officer’s resignation was due to a serious lapse in professionalism and poise, not because of come contrived plotline that he was a bad racist seed that needed to be purged. Opportunists are out for every pound of cop flesh these days, and they will spin that narrative any time they can.
Any assessment of events in McKinney should be based on what actually happened, free of agenda-driven quests to make cops look bad in general or to malign a community in an effort to stoke false imagery of a society still mired in tensions of decades past.
One of the most valuable, even-handed quotes this week was from a woman who spoke with a local TV station. Lamonica Birmingham, who is black, lives just down the street from the pool. “We pay HOA dues to use that pool,” she told a reporter. “So you can’t come out here and throw unauthorized events. I do not, however…agree with how the police officer handled the situation.”
Imagine that. A measured grasp of two concepts at the same time— the proper concern that led residents to call police, and an equally proper wish to thoughtfully scrutinize what unfolded.
Thank you, ma’am.
We all here need to send the link to FOX and see if anyone of them will mention this link or any of the truth.
The two that gave the party were adults the so called 14yr old is really 20..All of this was planned a month or so ahead of time..These two were from CHICAGO..
. I think it looks like a set up to me.The rent a mob must have been standing by to take action..since they were there really fast and put on a show for the press.
Screencap the heck out of all the tweetpix, etc first.
Then send the story links to fox.
Re:the pic of the daughter speaks volumes....
what’s with all the posting of pix of yourself flipping the bird????
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3298744/posts?page=16#16
Correction, I was talking about the kid in the tweetpix, not all y’all.
CNN host interviews two Baltimore cops who ADMIT they are doing less because they fear arrest
Posted by The Right Scoop on Jun 10, 2015 at 10:05 AM in Politics | 9 Comments
All police officers throughout the big city Democrat cities held captive by blacks should now just wear blinders and request a supervisor at all calls for service.
That is the best response.
Best to keep invites to private parties to either paper invites or private e-mails. Stay away from social media.
This was an effort to trap a good, hardworking LE. And it worked.
Look for it to get worse before it gets better.
See post number 25 please. Thank-you!
Also that HOA and all the rest of the HOA’s should make pool and common areas “residents only”, and have CCW holders and private security CCW holders at those events to check ID’s.
Visiting family members checked on a case by case basis.
First line of defense is the individual, then the neighborhood acting together.
A little bit goes a long way...
Yes.
I don’t maintain blind fealty towards law enforcement officials, I don’t know any cops, and haven’t any recent issues with them, so I don’t have a dog in that fight.
I had issues some years ago, but I came to realize that the vast majority of them are simply trying to do their job.
There are always some who are on a power trip, there are some who are stupid, there are some who just aren’t well suited for it, but for the most part, they are trying to earn a living.
With that in mind, I try to treat them with default respect. If I am speeding, I am respectful and take my medicine. If I am at a party and a cop comes in telling us the party is over and we have to leave...I leave. If I am somewhere and a cop tells me I have to do something like move my car, if it isn’t going to cause me hardship or lose me money, I will do it.
It is because of this that I have zero, zip, zilch, nada sympathy for these people in the video. When the cop told them the party was over and they had to disperse...they should have disbursed.
In the video, there were a lot of people that when the cop told them to stand fast, stay where they were, sit on the ground, or leave, they did just that, and there was no problem.
Instead, you get people like that POS girl in the bathing suit who thinks the sun shines out of her butt, and that everything that transpires can be exploited for monetary gain, fame, or racial strife, and she not only ignores the cop, but is throwing gasoline on the fire.
My sympathies in this case lie completely with the police.
Here is some more than came to me ..
http://therightscoop.com/heres-what-the-media-wont-tell-you-about-the-mckinney-pool-party-incident/
Make sure you read the comments on here..
Excellent point
In the midst of an out of control teen age party the police were called. Now, if there had been any respect by any of the teenagers (I know it has become missing in their DNA) there would not have been a problem. Remember in every instance so far it has been the perps that have started the fiasco not the cops. In days gone past when people were told something by the police they responded by listening to what was asked of them. Today I suppose that would be acting TOO WHITE.
Bingo.
Thanks!
Case in point, a month ago, I attended by invite and it was my first time, an Eagle Scout award event and I was sent a written invite.
Social media can be very unpredictable. You do not know who is decent and who is not.
Whatever white racism exists has practically no bearing on the success or failure of blacks. Blacks with ability and the right attitude will succeed. Blacks with little or no ability and a lousy attitude will fail. This holds true for people of all ethnicities.
When I taught H.S. for a while in the 50’s I had one hanging on the end of the blackboard with “Board of Education” printed on it. Never needed it but great object of conversation by the kids wondering if I ever would.
Makes a better impression with the correct number of holes.
Here... here... methinks you make entirely too much sense.
It is simply amazing how much easier life can be when applying the lessons learned in Kindergarten.
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