Casebolt was a good cop, he is out and the dept is on notice.
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That is ashame but he has a great future in many other Texas towns and cities where he is an absolute phenom.
He came into the call out of control? I watched the video, I don't see where he was out of control in what appeared to me to be an out of control situation, except for trying to subdue someone who refused to comply in a very physical and out of control way to the LAWFUL order of a policeman to disperse, and then to lie on the ground when she refused.
Well, if my children were at that pool, I would want Casebolt there. I would trust him around my kids. But maybe that is because my kids aren’t abusive, trespassing, wanna-be thugs.
Hope the chief had to offer him a nice severance package to get him to resign and take one for the team to calm things down there.
He totally overreacted. Other cops weren’t on some ego trip telling everyone to get on the ground like there is about to be a riot situation.
He looks like he’s way above his level of competence in his position as a police officer. If he can’t handle that situation and bring it to a reasonable conclusion instead of escalating things then he needs to be in a different job.
To say that Casebolt was a good cop and handled the situation correctly is to say the other eleven officers on the scene are bad cops who did not.