{"id":9677,"date":"2015-06-09T23:42:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T23:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9677"},"modified":"2015-06-09T23:42:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T23:42:47","slug":"call-him-a-former-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9677","title":{"rendered":"Call him a &#8216;former police officer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Eric Casebolt no longer patrols the streets of McKinney, Texas, on behalf of the McKinney Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>He quit today, just a few days after being video recorded roughing up a 14-year-old bikini-clad girl in a disturbance that erupted from a pool party.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/texas-officer-seen-in-viral-video-has-resigned-police-chief\/ar-BBkTiMU<\/p>\n<p>How does a pool party melee become cause for someone to give up a career for which he once was cited for excellence? It&#8217;s because the officer overreacted to the max when the kids didn&#8217;t do as he instructed him. His muscling of the girl to the ground was bad enough; then he drew his service pistol out on unarmed boys who had joined the ruckus.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes. Most of the kids are black; the officer is white.<\/p>\n<p>One blogger, writing for the Dallas Morning News, wondered if such an incident would have occurred had the girl been a &#8220;blue-eyed blonde.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does this end the episode? Probably not. Casebolt likely won&#8217;t be prosecuted for any crime, as no one was injured in the disturbance. However, the eyes of the community will be focused sharply on how officers react in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Let us chalk up yet another incident\u00a0&#8212; and add it to the list of reasons\u00a0local police\u00a0must build trust in the communities they swear to &#8220;protect and serve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Casebolt no longer patrols the streets of McKinney, Texas, on behalf of the McKinney Police Department. He quit today, just a few days after being video recorded roughing up a 14-year-old bikini-clad girl in a disturbance that erupted from a pool party. http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/texas-officer-seen-in-viral-video-has-resigned-police-chief\/ar-BBkTiMU How does a pool party melee become cause for someone to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9677\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Call him a &#8216;former police officer&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1615,2972,2973],"class_list":["post-9677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-eric-casebolt","tag-mckinney-police-department","tag-mckinney-pool-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677","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=9677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}