{"id":9655,"date":"2015-06-08T00:29:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T00:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9655"},"modified":"2015-06-08T00:29:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T00:29:58","slug":"now-its-a-mckinney-texas-cop-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9655","title":{"rendered":"Now it’s a McKinney, Texas, cop under fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Oh, brother. Here we go … again.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

It’s been caught on video. It’s made the rounds. Gone viral, in fact.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.beaumontenterprise.com\/news\/houston-texas\/texas\/article\/Officer-suspended-after-video-shows-violent-6312510.php<\/p>\n

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, then\u00a0puts the gun away after several seconds.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Here’s where I ought to mention that the officer is white, almost all the kids are black.<\/p>\n

One of the girls involved in the disturbance is heard to yell at the officer that\u00a0he “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.<\/p>\n

The resolution of this incident has all the earmarks of another ugly chapter being written.<\/p>\n\n

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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 … Continue reading Now it’s a McKinney, Texas, cop under fire<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1239,2971,3804],"class_list":["post-9655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-dallas","tag-mckinney-pd","tag-racial-epithets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}