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McKinley Cop Resigns

Zaac

Zaac

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Officer caught on video in Texas pool party incident resigns

MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A white police officer recorded on video pushing a black girl to the ground at a North Texas pool party resigned from the police force Tuesday.

Officer David Eric Casebolt's actions were "indefensible," McKinney Police Chief Greg Conley said at a press conference after the officer submitted his resignation. But Casebolt was not pressured to quit the force, Conley said.

A teenager at the party posted a video online showing the officer pushing a bikini-clad girl to the ground and brandishing his gun to other black teens when officers responded last Friday to calls about the pool party at a community-owned McKinney swimming pool. The 41-year-old former Texas state trooper and 10-year veteran of the McKinney force was put on administrative leave after the incident. His lawyer, Jane Bishkin of Dallas, confirmed Tuesday he had quit the force.

Conley said a review of the video showed that "our policies, our training and our practices do not support his actions."

Twelve officers responded to the report of fights and a disturbance at the pool party at the Craig Ranch North Community Pool in an affluent area of western McKinney. "Eleven of them performed according to their training," Conley said. Casebolt did not, he said.

"He came into the call out of control and the video showed he was out of control during the incident," Conley said

Officer David Eric Casebolt's actions were "indefensible," McKinney Police Chief Greg Conley said at a press conference after the officer submitted his resignation. But Casebolt was not pressured to quit the force, Conley said.

A teenager at the party posted a video online showing the officer pushing a bikini-clad girl to the ground and brandishing his gun to other black teens when officers responded last Friday to calls about the pool party at a community-owned McKinney swimming pool. The 41-year-old former Texas state trooper and 10-year veteran of the McKinney force was put on administrative leave after the incident. His lawyer, Jane Bishkin of Dallas, confirmed Tuesday he had quit the force.

Conley said a review of the video showed that "our policies, our training and our practices do not support his actions."

Twelve officers responded to the report of fights and a disturbance at the pool party at the Craig Ranch North Community Pool in an affluent area of western McKinney. "Eleven of them performed according to their training," Conley said. Casebolt did not, he said.

"He came into the call out of control and the video showed he was out of control during the incident," Conley said.

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-city-police-pool-incident-once-lauded-survey-215601984.html#
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:applause::applause::applause:
 
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Alcott

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Zaac said:
And my feelings aren't at issue.
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Ain't that grand?

You've added nothing to the conversation other than to round about let everyone know that you're a superstar because you're from McKinney.
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"Superstar?" &#)^! Everybody's from somewhere.

Must be something in the water.
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Yeah, that big new supply of it we just got-- where did it all come from?
 
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That's unfortunate, since evidence is now coming out that will probably exonerate him.

But when you look at the lynch mob Darrin Vincent faced in Ferguson, and the same the six Baltimore cops are facing, not to mention everything George Zimmerman went through for defending his life from the thug, Trayvon "Traybone" Martin, he probably just didn't want to put his family through that.
 
Jedi Knight

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JohnDeereFan said:
That's unfortunate, since evidence is now coming out that will probably exonerate him.

But when you look at the lynch mob Darrin Vincent faced in Ferguson, and the same the six Baltimore cops are facing, not to mention everything George Zimmerman went through for defending his life from the thug, Trayvon "Traybone" Martin, he probably just didn't want to put his family through that.
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He pulled his gun when the guys behind him looked like they were about to jump him! Too bad the thugs won because of the Racist games that's played on by Al Sharpton and pals.....thugs have learned.
 
robustheologian

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Zaac said:
Officer caught on video in Texas pool party incident resigns

MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A white police officer recorded on video pushing a black girl to the ground at a North Texas pool party resigned from the police force Tuesday.

Officer David Eric Casebolt's actions were "indefensible," McKinney Police Chief Greg Conley said at a press conference after the officer submitted his resignation. But Casebolt was not pressured to quit the force, Conley said.

A teenager at the party posted a video online showing the officer pushing a bikini-clad girl to the ground and brandishing his gun to other black teens when officers responded last Friday to calls about the pool party at a community-owned McKinney swimming pool. The 41-year-old former Texas state trooper and 10-year veteran of the McKinney force was put on administrative leave after the incident. His lawyer, Jane Bishkin of Dallas, confirmed Tuesday he had quit the force.

Conley said a review of the video showed that "our policies, our training and our practices do not support his actions."

Twelve officers responded to the report of fights and a disturbance at the pool party at the Craig Ranch North Community Pool in an affluent area of western McKinney. "Eleven of them performed according to their training," Conley said. Casebolt did not, he said.

"He came into the call out of control and the video showed he was out of control during the incident," Conley said

Officer David Eric Casebolt's actions were "indefensible," McKinney Police Chief Greg Conley said at a press conference after the officer submitted his resignation. But Casebolt was not pressured to quit the force, Conley said.

A teenager at the party posted a video online showing the officer pushing a bikini-clad girl to the ground and brandishing his gun to other black teens when officers responded last Friday to calls about the pool party at a community-owned McKinney swimming pool. The 41-year-old former Texas state trooper and 10-year veteran of the McKinney force was put on administrative leave after the incident. His lawyer, Jane Bishkin of Dallas, confirmed Tuesday he had quit the force.

Conley said a review of the video showed that "our policies, our training and our practices do not support his actions."

Twelve officers responded to the report of fights and a disturbance at the pool party at the Craig Ranch North Community Pool in an affluent area of western McKinney. "Eleven of them performed according to their training," Conley said. Casebolt did not, he said.

"He came into the call out of control and the video showed he was out of control during the incident," Conley said.

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-city-pol...15601984.html#
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That racist brute is out of there. :applause: :thumbsup: :smilewinkgrin: :thumbs:
 
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Use of Time

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This isn't a lynch mob. 11 out of 12 officers on the scene were commended except for Casebolt who was described by his own police chief as being "out of control" and "indefensible."

Article here. http://abcnews.go.com/US/mckinney-police-officer-eric-casebolt-resigns-wake-pool/story?id=31649084


Also, here is a pretty good article from a former police officer on the Guardian Cop vs. Warrior Cop mentality. He does a pretty good breakdown of the video to illustrate the point while noting the behavior of the other officers on scene contrasted to that of Casebolt.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/two-mckinney-cops-former-police-officer-guardian-warrior
 
Zaac

Zaac

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McKinney police officer apologizes, blames aggression at pool party on emotional stress

The lawyer for a McKinney, Texas police officer that has become the country’s latest exemplification of bad cop behavior on Wednesday blamed her client’s aggressive actions on emotional stress.

Cpl. Eric Casebolt was captured on video last Friday evening wrestling a teenage girl to the ground and pointing his gun at two other teens while answering a disturbance call at an unruly party at a neighborhood pool in suburban Dallas.

“He never intended to mistreat anyone,” his attorney, Jane Bishkin, said at a Wednesday afternoon news conference. “He apologizes to all who were offended.”

Bishkin said Casebolt had worked one suicide and one attempted suicide in the hour prior to being dispatched to the pool party that reportedly involved teens fighting.

“The nature of these two suicide calls took an emotional toll on Eric Casebolt,” Bishkin said at a Wednesday afternoon news conference.

Cell phone video of the incident was published on Saturday and immediately went viral. By Sunday, Casebolt, a 10-year veteran, was suspended and put under investigation. On the video, teens are seen scrambling as police arrive on the scene in the upper middle class neighborhood.

Casebolt, who resigned from the department on Tuesday, did not attend the news conference.

Daniel Malenfont, president of the McKinney Fraternal Order of Police, said Casebolt has been receiving daily telephone and email death threats.

“He's worried for his family,” Bishkin said. “He's worried that he may be followed.”

On the video, Casebolt, who is white, curses at mainly black youths and shouts for them to sit on the ground. As an argument with a bikini-clad girl escalates, the officer can be heard yelling, “On your face,” as he pushes the girl to the ground. When two teenage boys rush up to where Casebolt has the girl penned to the ground, the officer draws his gun and briefly chases them.

“He was only reacting to the situation and the challenges that it presented,” Bishkin said.

Bishkin, the city’s patrolman of the year in 2008, was reluctant to even go to the pool melee, but “felt it was his duty to respond” once the call escalated to reports of violence.

“He believed that those who fled were possible suspects,” Bishkin said. “He was not targeting minorities. In fact, he also detained a white female.”

http://news.yahoo.com/mckinney-poli...pool-party-on-emotional-stress-190534788.html
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Well bless his heart. Bishkin isn't doing him any favors.
 
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What keeps minorities down and in poverty is not white privilege. It is the stealing of hope by the race baiters. It is the beating of a drum that someone else owes me a living, that the man is keeping me down. It all leads to a lack of hope and fills people with despair.

Much of what is going on in this country is not based on reality. It is based on extremists capitalizing on unfortunate circumstances to propel a political agenda. This police officer is not only out of a job but has had to go into hiding as he and his family are having daily death threats on their lives.

The cheering of such things and false accusations of racism is not indicative of Christian behavior. In fact it is the exact opposite. Even if we believe the police officer was in error we should not desire what has happened to him. The evil in the hearts of people who engage in these behaviors comes straight from the pit of hell.

Further, so much has been made about police officers and their reaction to unruly people that we are now seeing people provoke officers. Police officers have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. It falls directly under our military in combat. The demonization and the destruction of their lives in this way is shameful and ungodly and I pity those who desire to do that to people.
 
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Revmitchell said:
What keeps minorities down and in poverty is not white privilege. It is the stealing of hope by the race baiters. It is the beating of a drum that someone else owes me a living, that the man is keeping me down. It all leads to a lack of hope and fills people with despair.

Much of what is going on in this country is not based on reality. It is based on extremists capitalizing on unfortunate circumstances to propel a political agenda. This police officer is not only out of a job but has had to go into hiding as he and his family are having daily death threats on their lives.

The cheering of such things and false accusations of racism is not indicative of Christian behavior. In fact it is the exact opposite. Even if we believe the police officer was in error we should not desire what has happened to him. The evil in the hearts of people who engage in these behaviors comes straight from the pit of hell.

Further, so much has been made about police officers and their reaction to unruly people that we are now seeing people provoke officers. Police officers have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. It falls directly under our military in combat. The demonization and the destruction of their lives in this way is shameful and ungodly and I pity those who desire to do that to people.
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11 police officers conducted themselves accordingly and were commended while the guy that chose to operate outside of procedure was reprimanded. Such is life. I'm not celebrating or anything but the guy is in a line of work where those miscues can solicit more serious consequences. Yes police work is inherently dangerous but that is why officers that choose to make a situation more unstable and more chaotic simply can not be tolerated. One officers actions can place all the responding officers in danger. The Police Chief understands this. Casebolt's actions could have placed his brothers in danger, thankfully they came out unscathed.
 
Zaac

Zaac

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robustheologian said:
What?!? :laugh:

Of course the guilty would never admit to being guilty.
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Ain't that the truth?:thumbsup:

It's time that Black people in the United States take their grievances of discriminatory and flat out racist violent policing and systemic structural racism to the United Nations Human Rights Council.

It's time that the world at large starts to treat this wickedness perpetrated against Blacks in this country as what it is and internationally hold the US responsible for 400 plus years of Human Rights violations.

How dare we say anything to Iraq or any other country when we sit here within our borders legally enslaving and abusing people in our "legal" prison slave system.

And shame on white Christians who are always talking about "if they would just take responsibility" out one side of their mouths while CONSTANTLY making excuses for the cops who do the murdering out the other side of their mouths.
 
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SO - the McKinney cop, Casebolt, apparently responded earlier that day to a young woman threatening to jump off her parents roof (suicide threat); and even earlier, to a young black man who shot himself (completed suicide). And he's not appearing publicly because of death threats.
 
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