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Embattled McKinney police officer resigns following pool party video
Washington Post ^ | June 9, 2015 | Peter Holley and Elahe Izadi

Posted on 06/09/2015 4:14:16 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative

The Texas police officer at the center of a controversial video that showed him forcefully handcuffing and drawing his gun on a group of black teenagers at a pool party last weekend has resigned, the city’s police chief announced Tuesday.

McKinney Police Chief Greg Conley called Cpl. Eric Casebolt’s actions “indefensible” and noted that the officer, who was under investigation, “resigned on his own will.”

“As the video shows, he was out of control during the incident,” Conley said, “I had 12 officers on the scene and 11 of them performed according to their training.”

He said the internal investigation into Casebolt’s actions is now over.

“I do not condone the actions of those individuals who violated the rules of the community and showed disrespect to the security personnel on the scene and officers,” he added.

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To: Conscience of a Conservative
All of the other officers in the video look professional, are calmly (but authoritatively) speaking with people, and appear to be trying to figure out what is going on...

It's not clear if "all the other cops" did anything to disperse the people who weren't dispersing.

141 posted on 06/09/2015 6:38:53 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: combat_boots

Yes, but that report is contradicted by the video, which shows Casebolt running to the scene with at least one other officer.


142 posted on 06/09/2015 6:39:07 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Eddie01; ansel12

“However, he simply went into the crowd like a raging bull without the other officers and created the frenzie.”

I agree. I didn’t see anything racial about his behavior. I think he would have behaved the exact same with an unruly all-white crowd.

Don’t know if you remember the guy shot in the Las Vegas Costco. This cop seemed to be the same sort of cop found in that incident...overbearing, too dominant, too quick to assume.

If you ever try training animals, you realize how you act is often more important than what you do. Certainly with horses - 1000 lbs of muscle but not much brain - you can be dominant without being excessively emotional about it. When your emotions go out of control, the horse’s will too...and you can create a problem where there doesn’t need to be one. Like a horse, a crowd has more muscle than brain. Calm dominance works better than screaming and running around, throwing things and people...


143 posted on 06/09/2015 6:39:13 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Where? Which video? At what marker?


144 posted on 06/09/2015 6:40:16 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: ansel12

AND the puts his hand behind his back. Watch the video.


145 posted on 06/09/2015 6:42:22 PM PDT by DrewsMum
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
You know perfectly well one out of twelve will be significantly 'below the curve' NO MATTER WHAT.
Catching them on camera and discharging them won't change that ratio. You're advocating a destructive policy.

... unless ALL of society's wealth is diverted to policing? No, the impoverished people will then be beyond any policing.

The SC police officer who shot a man in the back committed a crime- that's not germane here.

146 posted on 06/09/2015 6:47:33 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: DoodleDawg

Nothing, but we know that because the video shows it . The officer didn’t have the luxury of that point of view sitting at his computer in a safe comfortable place like the rest of us.


147 posted on 06/09/2015 6:48:19 PM PDT by DrewsMum
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To: mrsmith

What are you advocating, then? That poorly-performing cops be kept on the job, even after their poor performance becomes apparent?


148 posted on 06/09/2015 6:49:51 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: DrewsMum

So?

You don’t seem to realize that what happened, is that the cop totally lost it, no one is just focusing on him pulling a gun, but his entire hysteria and emotionalism.


149 posted on 06/09/2015 6:49:57 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12

So?

I was explaining why the officer might feel the threatened at that point.

I have not commented on his alleged hysteria.

Do you understand?


150 posted on 06/09/2015 6:52:25 PM PDT by DrewsMum
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To: Eddie01

Yeah, Mark Fuhrman does seem on top of this.


151 posted on 06/09/2015 6:53:49 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Organic Panic

What is amazing about this situation is that no news outlet is reporting this correctly.

The woman who put on the party did it in a gated community and for profit. She was charging people to come to the party. She had also been organizing this party for over a month. She advertised it on social media and did not ask for permission to put on the party from the HOA.

The party got out of hand because a mob came to the party and jumped the gates.

This woman who organized the event named Tatiana got into a violent confrontation with one of the homeowners.

That is when the officer was called and asked for backup. The officer pulled his gun because two large teens came towards the officer and made a motion as if they were going to pull something out from under their clothing. The officer responded by pulling his gun in defense. When he saw they had nothing he put his gun back.

The officer is a 10 year navy veteran including 3 years with military police.

This btw was also recorded on tape and showed clearly why the officer did what he did. He was doing his job and was fired.

Meanwhile Tatiana who created this mess for profit is not even charged with anything. Wow!


152 posted on 06/09/2015 6:56:17 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
," it occurs to me that even in the freeze-frame, the guy is in a terrible shooting stance. His feet are way too wide, he is off balance, and he is back on his heels.

It looks like he is ready to put the ball through the hoop to me.

153 posted on 06/09/2015 6:56:24 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Sub-editors: totes unnecessary.)
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To: DrewsMum

You don’t understand that the gun is just a part of his hysteria, and going berserk, he didn’t resign only because he pulled his gun, it was his total hysteria and freaking out, that made everyone see that he is in the wrong line of work.

The guy was an emotional basket case.


154 posted on 06/09/2015 6:56:41 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: gaijin

You hate cops? Really? Wow!


155 posted on 06/09/2015 6:56:48 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Of course.
And with my responsiveness before you, I ask again for a response from you:

How much wealth will you confiscate from society to achieve your goal of no policeman ever doing anything wrong?


156 posted on 06/09/2015 6:56:56 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative; Ansel
Silly indeed. Leaving aside the absurdity of freezing a single frame of a guy who first runs forward then immediately stops and backpedals, and calling that frame a "shooting stance," it occurs to me that even in the freeze-frame, the guy is in a terrible shooting stance. His feet are way too wide, he is off balance, and he is back on his heels.

It doesn't take a "shooting stance" to plug a cop from several feet away. Besides that, the guy still charged the scene of the arrest and appeared to reach for something around his waist.

The cop did nothing wrong in that situation.

157 posted on 06/09/2015 7:03:38 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: mrsmith

I’m not proposing a world in which no officers do anything wrong ever, precisely because that would be cost prohibitive (not to mention impossible). What I am proposing is a policy by which officers who prove themselves to lack the temperament to do the job right are taken off the job. What cost would I be willing to incur? The costs of recruiting and training new officers (which is, of course, something police departments do anyway).


158 posted on 06/09/2015 7:05:35 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: FreeReign

I was responding to the picture posted above, which describes the stance as a shooting stance. That’s silly. It’s not.


159 posted on 06/09/2015 7:06:48 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: FreeReign

See post 154.

This guy didn’t resign because he and his union couldn’t handle, only the gun coming out.

That video shows that he doesn’t belong on the streets, as a cop.


160 posted on 06/09/2015 7:08:25 PM PDT by ansel12
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