WASHINGTON -- When Miles Jai Thomas arrived at a party at the Craig Ranch North Community Pool in McKinney, Texas, on Friday night, he said the pool was open to everyone who'd been invited -- until a security guard showed up and removed black partygoers from the area.
“Then he started making up rules to keep us out,” Thomas, 15, told The Huffington Post.
A white woman at the pool started making racist comments, Thomas said, such as telling black teens at the party to get used to the bars outside the pool because that’s all they were going to see.
Grace Stone, 14, who is white, told BuzzFeed News that she and friends objected to an adult woman making racist comments to other teens at the party and that the woman turned violent.
The Texas pool party where a police officer pinned a screaming teenaged girl to the ground and pointed his pistol at others might have escaped notice if not for Brandon Brooks.
Brooks, 15, filmed roughly seven minutes of the melee. His video has gone viral and prompted calls to fire the McKinney police officer seen in the video. The officer, Cpl. Eric Casebolt, a 10-year department veteran, has been placed on administrative leave during the investigation, according to police.
"When he pulled his gun, my heart dropped," Brooks told NewsFix. "As soon as he pulled out his gun, I thought he was gonna shoot that kid. That was very scary."
Brooks described the pool party at the Craig Ranch North Community as an end-of-the-school-year gathering a classmate invited him to via Twitter.
After a pool security guard gave Brooks and his friends a hard time about being there, the teen said he went to the bathroom and was prepared to pack his belongings. A friend told him there was a fight outside, but it was over by the time Brooks got there.
"The parents immediately started yelling, 'You need more cops!'" Brooks said. "The fight was between a mom and girl -- which had nothing to do with all those other kids she apparently needed more cops for."
Brooks called the scene "out of control." He said Casebolt grew angry after he tripped chasing a group of teens he had told to sit down.
"He was going crazy, putting people in handcuffs, swinging them to the ground," Brooks said.
As other teens at the pool party have said, Brooks said he felt racism was involved.
A 15-year-old girl has recounted the terrifying moment a veteran police officer grabbed her and bodyslammed her to the ground as she attended a pool party in Texas with friends.
Dajerria Becton was only wearing a bikini when McKinney Police Corporal Eric Casebolt grabbed her and pinned her down on Friday evening - in a startling incident caught on camera.
Casebolt had arrived at the pool following reports of an argument and the teen, who said she was an invited guest, recalled how he told her and her friends to keep walking.
'I'm guessing he thought we were saying rude stuff to him,' she told Fox4.
Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Monday said that while the white Texas police officer who threw a black, teenage girl to the ground on Friday was "brutal," she said that the girl was not properly following the officer's orders.
McKinney police police corporal Eric Casebolt was placed on administrative leave this weekend after a video showed him throwing a teenage girl, Dajerria Becton, to the ground and drawing his weapon to chase other pool party attendees. Police said officers were responding to a "disturbance" at a community pool in McKinney, Texas.
"I’m sure he didn’t know she was 14 at the time," Kelly said on Monday night during "The Kelly File." "Maybe he did, we can’t assume it. But now we know, and she looked like a young woman. It’s brutal."
"And now people have made this into a race thing. Are we there yet?" Kelly asked one of her guests, radio host Richard Fowler.
"Race aside, Megyn, I think to watch a woman being handled like that by a guy who’s two times her size made me totally sick to my stomach," Fowler said.
Well, at least nobody died.
Good. Now bring him up on assault charges and everything's gravy.
The kid in the dark blue shirt was playing a dangerous game. You don't "pretend" to draw a gun near a police officer or a soldier. I can see that the officer in question did some other questionable stuff but I don't blame him for drawing his gun when he did so.The kid says he was trying to get eye contact with the girl to calm her down and tell her they'll go get her mum. Unfortunately his friend accidentally bumped into him and he lost his balance. When falling forwards he realized that from the cop's point of view it looks like he's starting to charge at him and he leaned backwards but the cop was already pulling his gun. At this point they got scared that the cop is going to shoot them so they ran away.
The kid in the dark blue shirt was playing a dangerous game. You don't "pretend" to draw a gun near a police officer or a soldier. I can see that the officer in question did some other questionable stuff but I don't blame him for drawing his gun when he did so.The kid says he was trying to get eye contact with the girl to calm her down and tell her they'll go get her mum. Unfortunately his friend accidentally bumped into him and he lost his balance. When falling forwards he realized that from the cop's point of view it looks like he's starting to charge at him and he leaned backwards but the cop was already pulling his gun. At this point they got scared that the cop is going to shoot them so they ran away.
In some ways, Buzzfeed is a much more serious source of media than the New York Times. Basically anything involving race, Buzfeed will nail it.
There's another story running around the web that I can't actually find any verification that basically paints the black kids in the wrong by saying this wasn't a pool party or anything but a party next to the pool and the kids were trying to invade the pool or something. Of course none of this is getting reported because they can't find a single person who'll verify the story so you've got that going for ya.
Ironbite-also apparently Tatiana, the girl who hosted this thing, had enough guest passes for everybody.
Combat roll. Don't you do that in video games?
Or simply tripping while running and doing an improvised ukemi to minimize the force directed against your body. It wouldn't surprise me if a big part of why the cop went out of control was the embarassment and resulting overcompensation over this incident. This is naturally just speculation but it's true that an ego that's both big and fragile can be dangerous to one's surroundings.