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McKinney chief: Eric Casebolt was 'out of control'
Gannett WFAA ^ | 06-09-2015 | Rebecca Lopez

Posted on 06/09/2015 6:08:44 PM PDT by ScottWalkerForPresident2016

McKINNEY — The McKinney police officer whose actions at a pool party disturbance last Friday went viral in a YouTube video resigned from the force on Tuesday.

"The actions of Eric Casebolt are indefensible," police Chief Greg Conley told reporters at a news conference late Tuesday afternoon, saying the officer was "out of control during the incident."

"I had 12 officers on the scene, and 11 of them performed according to their training," Conley added.

Casebolt's resignation was confirmed about one hour earlier by attorney Jane Bishkin, who told WFAA that the decision was made after a meeting with the department's internal affairs unit to review possible charges her client could face.

(Excerpt) Read more at wfaa.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: casebolt; police; pool; poolpartycrashers; texas
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To: ansel12
Well, we surely see "reality" differently, my FRiend.

Cheers!

121 posted on 06/10/2015 10:03:49 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: DiogenesLamp
There's a long history of fired police officers getting jobs in other departments. For example, the New Mexico state trooper who made national news when he shot at a van full of kids in 2013 resigned his job and was hired as a sheriff's deputy in Taos.

Sheriff hires officer from Taos minivan shooting

122 posted on 06/10/2015 10:11:28 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: glennaro

Except that my “we”, is actually seeing reality, I don’t know if you realize it, but your reality never existed, and that is why there was no fight over what the video showed about that guy, he just left, everyone seems in agreement with the obvious, he showed too much hysteria, and an inability to control his emotions.


123 posted on 06/10/2015 10:21:45 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12
I admire your confidence but I think you're wrong in your observations. No offense intended ... you just see things far differently than do I.

Now I must get back to work (I'm a 5-decade professional observer of environmental conditions for property assessments and have several reports to deliver today.)

124 posted on 06/10/2015 10:39:03 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: glennaro

The difference is, that you are living in a reality of your own, while the rest of us, including the cop himself, and the department, have already responded appropriately to what was recorded about his going berserk.

You are clinging to something that never existed.


125 posted on 06/10/2015 10:42:28 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12

My FRiend, I’d really like to help you understand but I frankly just don’t have the time. Sincere best wishes, GA


126 posted on 06/10/2015 10:44:14 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: glennaro

All you can do is share your personal feelings, reality doesn’t reflect them, that is why there was no fight back from the cop and the union, and the department, and the cop instantly resigned.

Furhman was right.


127 posted on 06/10/2015 11:00:15 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: Oliviaforever

If you are referring to the moment when the two other cops arrived and touched Casebolt that was NOT restraint. That was “Hey buddy, you ok? We got your back.” touch.


128 posted on 06/10/2015 11:08:42 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: combat_boots
Re your post:

Looks like they are wanting another Elaine race riot.

Mr. Dennis L.A. White better be VERY CAREFUL of what he wishes for. It won't be quick, and it won't be pretty if his ilk keep pressing.....esp. when it concerns children.

129 posted on 06/10/2015 11:44:41 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: rlmorel

What she was doing at that very moment, if she was resisting arrest or not, is irrelevant.

Instead, she could have been charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, and the officer could have justified his actions.

But without an arrest, it is difficult for an officer to justify a use of force.


130 posted on 06/10/2015 3:46:05 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: Oliviaforever

Why is it irrelevant? She either was disobeying a lawful order from a police officer (multiple times, not just once) or she wasn’t.

You look at this like it happens in a vacuum, a very shallow approach.

And you justify it with circular logic: “Well, she wasn’t arrested, so she didn’t do anything wrong.”

Intellectually very weak.


131 posted on 06/10/2015 4:38:18 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.)
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To: rlmorel

No, even though I think Casebolt was out of line, he would have been better off if he arrested the girl.


132 posted on 06/10/2015 4:57:46 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: Oliviaforever

I agree. If that’s the case, would he have been justified in arresting her?


133 posted on 06/10/2015 5:18:13 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.)
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To: WildHighlander57

A N Miami principal has just lost his job for posting a comment in support of Casebolt.

The White woman in the fight has been put on administrative leave from her job while the company investigates.

The police chief had met behind closed doors with ‘leaders of the black community’ prior to suspending Casebolt and then releasing the only guy to be arrested-tan shorts guy.

Some kind of action committee still wants Casebolt tried criminally.

We’re about at critical mass for the Leftist/fascist/national socialist action of destroying everything you had, have, and will have, if you go again ‘the party,’ We’re the new Juden. Do we get a star?

At least Levin argued back against the police chief.

Watching that video that had the two men flanking Casebolt on the one side, when the girls friends had rushed back against Casebolt on the other, had I been there, I would have been in fear of my life. There appear to be those on this board who would have rather seen Casebolt dead.


134 posted on 06/10/2015 5:51:19 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: rlmorel

Justified in that when he is at civil trial, he could say that she was breaking a law,therefore he restrained her and arrested her.

Without an arrest, the opposing council is going to ask, “if she was not breaking the law, why did you tackle her?”


135 posted on 06/10/2015 6:55:18 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: Oliviaforever

You view it one dimensionally as if nature was set to a default truth in your reality, that the only logical outcome of a situation where someone is forcibly restrained is that an arrest follows. In your world, A=B and B=C, therefore A=C. A wonderful and pure world.

Simplistic.

From reading your posts, I am not at all surprised that you would not even consider that there might be other forces, outcomes, pathways, or results.

You view the situation like an 18 year old college student.


136 posted on 06/10/2015 8:53:08 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.)
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To: rlmorel

I have simply stated what I think will happen in a civil trial.

Casebolt could have arrested her and would have some cover.


137 posted on 06/10/2015 9:35:45 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: Oliviaforever

Honestly, I am not in the least interested in cover, I am interested in what is right.

Right usually provides cover, and cover for its own sake is exposed as worthless, deceitful, and disingenuous when it is attempted for an undeserving act.

So for me, it comes down to whether it was the right action to detain her forcefully or not, and I believe 100% that it was the right thing to do.

The fact that she was not charged has everything to do with the fact that she is black, a teenager in a bikini, the race hustlers are in play, and police departments are being robbed of the ability to maintain law and order because they are choosing the cowardly, dishonest, and immoral path of covering their behinds, forced into it by people who view this as a racial act of oppression instead of a lawful and correct action.

You apparently view it as an act of racial oppression or simple police brutality, and as God is my witness, I swear to you that your approach is going to bring all of us, including you, down a road we are going to rue.

And the same people who conspire bring us down that road are going to cry the loudest at the situation we find ourselves in.

I am not interested in changing your mind, as I now have the measure of you after our discourse, and see the path you are set on.

I leave the final word on this to you.


138 posted on 06/11/2015 6:48:27 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.)
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To: ansel12

Everyone who criticized cops in these tense, volatile situations should be a cop for a few weeks. People have no clue what it is like to be a target because of what one wears to work. They have to be on constant alert when on the job, which may explain why many succumb to heart attacks soon after retirement. They can’t unwind.

Do a ridelong with some cops in your area, and perhaps you will get a slight inkling of what the job is like. Still, you won’t be wearing a uniform and wondering if someone might shoot you just for that.


139 posted on 06/11/2015 4:43:34 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Maybe your post has absolutely nothing to do with video exposing an unstable, hysterical cop, who doesn’t belong on the streets, and was at the Texas State Highway Patrol for such a short time, and who resigned his union position instantly, when confronted with his ‘chicken with his head cut off’ behavior.

“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.”

Here is Mark Furhman’s analysis.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_DSU8ZP_bA

Don’t smear all cops, including the other 11 that handled this suburban situation, just fine, by claiming this ex-cop was normal.


140 posted on 06/11/2015 4:51:47 PM PDT by ansel12
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