Locals on twitter last night were supporting the police. Basically it was a flash mob of punk ass kids using sheer numbers to do whatever the hell they wanted.
A Facebook post from a resident there ...
Facebook friends and family – PLEASE HELP! That (now viral) video of the officer in McKinney subduing a girl in a bathing suit was in OUR neighborhood. The situation was NOT what is being reported…
A DJ setup in a public space next to the private pool in our neighborhood on Friday and played loud explicit (F-bomb) music for multiple hours (it is unclear if he was invited by a resident as no one has claimed responsibility). The teenagers (both black and white) were being brought into our neighborhood by the carload because the DJ was tweeting out invites to a “pool party” for $15 (obviously unauthorized by our neighborhood). The teens began fighting with each other and pushing their way into our private pool. Some were jumping our fence. The security guard was accosted when he tried to stop the beginnings of this mob scene. Some residents who live around the park/pool area tried to come out and settle things down. The teens started yelling racial slurs at our neighbors and started assaulting people and property (throwing bottles at cars and attacking a mother at the pool with 3 young children). The first officer on the scene was by himself. At that time, the party had grown to a large, aggressive crowd. As the officer arrived, many teens started running through our neighborhood. Many of the teens were being very aggressive and yelling at the officers as more arrived.
This was a very dangerous situation for the officers AND the teens/residents not involved. The news media has refused to hear the neighborhood’s side of this story. The video being distributed is only a very small segment of what happened. This information being distributed by the media and others is extremely distorted and in some cases outright lies.
PLEASE HELP US STOP THE BROADCASTING OF THIS IGNORANCE. The media is trying to make it look like our neighborhood is a white’s only, racist area. Anyone who has spent even a few minutes in our area knows this is an outright LIE.
The unfortunate result is that our neighbors are now being threatened. We have also had cars and property in and around the park area vandalized this weekend. Unfortunately, the press and social media are trying to enflame the situation.
I am asking for your help for my family and my neighbor’s safety…PLEASE, PLEASE do not rebroadcast any of these lies.
Those that are outraged probably should never watch their favorite sausage being made either.
CNN is trying to ramp up another riot!
Funny, one story from Texas gets a media blank, crickets. This story gets run every hour, I’m sure. Oh, this one has a bikini. That’ll generate some “human interest”.
I agree with that, but think the police officer should have refrained from swearing, and probably could have subdued the 14 year old girl with less force. At any rate, at least one of the cops in a team probably has the role of "bad cop."
Crowd was ziggin and zaggin. LE looked very responsible in his use of weapon and tactics against these wannabe thugs.
Per a brief comment on FoxNews, it seems many of the neighbors in the area are supporting the police rather than the yutes who were apparently there to cause trouble.
It is past time for a sponsor boycott of lame stream media sponsors. Just need prominent conservatives to call for one.
I myself am sick and tired of seeing lame stream media outlets report half truths and lies over and over without fear of repercussions. A sponsor boycott is about the only way folks can strike back against false reporting.
I have lavishly bashed police officers about 10,000 times and I enjoy it.
Ya know what?
If I had been one of those cops I would have done exactly the same thing.
This is simply brainless, politically-motivated piling on and it means nothing.
I will feel absolutely free to continue hating thuggish cops and genuine thugs, even if theyre holding pool toys.
This is a bunch of ado about nothing.
Sounds like an out-of-control, tough-guy cop making things more difficult for the competent cops around the country who know how to control their tempers.
If we would just abolish all local police precincts and establish a National Police Force under the control of the Department of Justice/United Nations we wouldn’t have these problems.
/Sarc
(What we would have in that scenario no negative press coverage of the police ever.)
Yeah, good cops slam 14 year old girls to the ground and pull their firearm on unarmed teenagers all the time. Sounds more like a panicky incompetent cop who will get his partner or someone else killed before all is said and done.
I watched the video. The officer drew his weapon ONLY after he was charged by two male teens. No problem for me.
they just came from the library where they had a study-a-thon to prepare for the SATs, church was next on the list of activities after a quiet visit to the neighborhood pool. Meanwhile at home, Dad and Mom were talking about how happy they were to have such a wonderful, successful family and what they would do for Father’s Day in two weekends. Right?
I have watched this video numerous times and don’t see what the officer did wrong!!!
Had these thugs started running through my neighborhood like they did there, you would have seen my guns too.
I watched both videos and nowhere did I see that policeman’s knee on the girl’s head as reported on Good Morning America today. It’s sickening the way they are reporting this. My first reaction to the videos was shock at how the kids were doing exactly what they wanted to do without regard to what the officer was telling them. Absolutely no respect for authority (just like in the schools).