Oh, brother. Here we go … again.
A McKinney police officer has been suspended after he roughed up some unarmed juveniles at a swim party in the suburban community north of Dallas.
It’s been caught on video. It’s made the rounds. Gone viral, in fact.
http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Officer-suspended-after-video-shows-violent-6312510.php
The video shows the officer detaining kids at the swim party. At one point, he forces — and this is quite interesting — a bikini-clad girl to the ground; when the girl gets up, the officer pulls his service revolver out of its holster, thenĀ puts the gun away after several seconds.
Yep, it’s fair to wonder out loud: Did the officer actually think the girl was packing heat wearing, um, a bikini? He ended up putting his knees on the girl’s back, restraining her while waiting for backup to arrive.
Here’s where I ought to mention that the officer is white, almost all the kids are black.
One of the girls involved in the disturbance is heard to yell at the officer thatĀ he “isn’t going to be a cop no more.” There were other terrible things said in the melee, including an apparently racist rant from an adult bystander.
The resolution of this incident has all the earmarks of another ugly chapter being written.
I have read several posts from folks at the pool and in McKinney. Supposedly, the kids had planned to crash pool parties various parts of town. One man told the kids to go to their part of town. However, as with any situation like this, who knows. We know eye witnesses differ from one to another about the same incident. It is a shame that this world is no better than it is, years after Rosa Parks and MLK.