Calls Mount For The Firing Of Texas Officer Who Crashed Pool Party, Pulled Gun On Teens

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By Jon Herskovitz, Reuters

A rally is planned for Monday in the Dallas-area city of McKinney calling for the firing of the police officer seen in a viral video throwing a bathing suit-clad teenage girl to the ground and pointing his pistol at other youths at a pool party.

The officer, McKinney Police Corporal Eric Casebolt, has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation of how he responded to a disturbance at a pool party on Friday in the city about 30 miles north of Dallas, an incident that has raised fresh questions about racial bias in U.S. policing.

Casebolt, a white officer, is seen in the video shouting obscenities at black youths in a multiracial crowd, placing a black youth in handcuffs, briefly pointing his gun at the youths and throwing a black teenage girl to the ground, burying his knees in her back to keep her prone.

“We are demanding that the officer be fired and be charged with assaulting the youth,” said Dominique Alexander, the president of the Next Generation Action Network, which is organizing the rally…

Dajerria Becton, the girl who was thrown to the ground by Casebolt, told local broadcaster KDFW that the officer twisted her arm and grabbed her by the hair.

“Him getting fired isn’t enough,” she said.

Several people wrote on the McKinney Police Facebook page the youths antagonized police and that they should have obeyed when officers told them to stay put and keep quiet.

McKinney Mayor Brian Loughmiller said he expected police to act professionally and with proper restraint.

“Having seen the YouTube video, I am disturbed and concerned by the incident and actions depicted in the video,” Loughmiller said in a statement on Sunday…

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