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christx30

(6,241 posts)
24. I found this:
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 10:01 AM
Jun 2015

Facebook friends and family – PLEASE HELP! That (now viral) video of the officer in McKinney subduing a girl in a bathing suit was in OUR neighborhood. The situation was NOT what is being reported…

A DJ setup in a public space next to the private pool in our neighborhood on Friday and played loud explicit (F-bomb) music for multiple hours (it is unclear if he was invited by a resident as no one has claimed responsibility). The teenagers (both black and white) were being brought into our neighborhood by the carload because the DJ was tweeting out invites to a “pool party” for $15 (obviously unauthorized by our neighborhood). The teens began fighting with each other and pushing their way into our private pool. Some were jumping our fence. The security guard was accosted when he tried to stop the beginnings of this mob scene. Some residents who live around the park/pool area tried to come out and settle things down. The teens started yelling racial slurs at our neighbors and started assaulting people and property (throwing bottles at cars and attacking a mother at the pool with 3 young children). The first officer on the scene was by himself. At that time, the party had grown to a large, aggressive crowd. As the officer arrived, many teens started running through our neighborhood. Many of the teens were being very aggressive and yelling at the officers as more arrived.

This was a very dangerous situation for the officers AND the teens/residents not involved. The news media has refused to hear the neighborhood’s side of this story. The video being distributed is only a very small segment of what happened. This information being distributed by the media and others is extremely distorted and in some cases outright lies.

PLEASE HELP US STOP THE BROADCASTING OF THIS IGNORANCE. The media is trying to make it look like our neighborhood is a white’s only, racist area. Anyone who has spent even a few minutes in our area knows this is an outright LIE.

The unfortunate result is that our neighbors are now being threatened. We have also had cars and property in and around the park area vandalized this weekend. Unfortunately, the press and social media are trying to enflame the situation.

I am asking for your help for my family and my neighbor’s safety…PLEASE, PLEASE do not rebroadcast any of these lies.

Here's the link to a gd thread about it, with video. How to not do it right. uppityperson Jun 2015 #1
Thank you for the link. Would have probably missed it, otherwise. The cops were the ones Judi Lynn Jun 2015 #2
I was holding my breath when he pulled his gun and the kids ran screaming, wondering uppityperson Jun 2015 #3
It will be interesting to see how quickly the FOP or local police union takes up his cause... CincyDem Jun 2015 #4
paid leave = paid vacation kiri Jun 2015 #5
I do not consider police "unions" real unions bluestateguy Jun 2015 #6
But the Police Unions do, Serve to Protect... SoapBox Jun 2015 #8
As do most union, protecting their members is one of the benefits and if we had more unions cstanleytech Jun 2015 #16
You bet!! That is their job!! pocoloco Jun 2015 #17
Probably pretty fast, he is a vice-president in his local union.... what a asshole he is!!! winstars Jun 2015 #25
How old is the "woman"? She looked like jail bait to me. McCamy Taylor Jun 2015 #7
She's a teenager, not an adult woman. brush Jun 2015 #10
well heaven05 Jun 2015 #14
Of course! nt brush Jun 2015 #19
It was started by a white woman making racist comments to the kids Tempest Jun 2015 #9
really heaven05 Jun 2015 #13
I found this: christx30 Jun 2015 #24
Not buying it Tempest Jun 2015 #26
Hoax post Tempest Jun 2015 #32
This idiot needs to be fired Gothmog Jun 2015 #11
well the kids handled roughly heaven05 Jun 2015 #12
He belongs in prison. nt valerief Jun 2015 #15
That was super excessive. romanic Jun 2015 #18
They were obviously unarmed kids too. Jamastiene Jun 2015 #31
It's de facto segregation Novara Jun 2015 #20
This was on Good Morning America a few min. ago - LiberalElite Jun 2015 #21
No excuse for thug cop behavior, but there is more to this story Telcontar Jun 2015 #22
The kids and some adults said it was a community pool Tempest Jun 2015 #27
Here is the lady who hired the DJ telling more of the story snooper2 Jun 2015 #28
You can't hear most of what she's saying because of the men talking in the background. n/t Tempest Jun 2015 #30
Fail? That word, I dont think it means what you think Telcontar Jun 2015 #33
Police who scream, swear and rage are terrifying. I'd run from them too! Sunlei Jun 2015 #23
The cop claims he pulled his gun because two young men ran AT him, not away. nt NickB79 Jun 2015 #34
my heart goes out to those children terrified & abused by swearing, screaming, out of control police Sunlei Jun 2015 #29
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