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Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
I say look at the infamous video and watch the guy in the blue shirt. As he rapidly approaches the officer who has his hands full, the blue shirt reaches for something under his shirt and in his waist band. Then, and only then, does the gun come out. The officer saw what he percieved as a threat and reacted. Everyone should be very surprised that the officer did not point his weapon at the idiot. It was an idiot move and the 18 year old (yes, he is eligible to serve in the military) made it. Of course there are witnesses describing the behavior of the young "lady" in question...she is no lady.
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The Chief of Police is white and thought this Cop was in the wrong. Below is a way different generations are starting to see racism. Old folks have no problem telling black kids to head back to Section 8 housing, to them that is not racism. Older Cops have no problem singling out blacks to lay on the ground but younger people be it black or white see those things as racism. Just like younger folks saw first that denying Gays the rights of marriage was discrimination.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the...0?ocid=U221DHP
In the story of the Texas pool party, where a police officer was caught on tape manhandling and pointing a gun at young black teenagers , there's a lot to be concerned and outraged about. But there's also one tiny thing to celebrate: the actions of two white kids.
Just @ and @ years old, they wasted no time speaking on the record about the racist comments made by adults that they said set off the incident, and recording the discriminatory treatment they said they witnessed.
Related A cop's plea: stop calling in "suspicious activity" every time you see a black person
Sadly, when it comes to public opinion about the event, it's likely that these accounts have more weight coming from the white kids than from the black kids who have offered similar stories, but
whom many media consumers might see as potential criminals and untrustworthy reporters of what happened.
Their stories shaped the early media narrative of the event, and their sense of responsibility to memorialize what happened should be seen as an example. Many American adults could learn something from their brave decisions to acknowledge rather than avoid or explain away the injustice they saw, but also to make sure the rest of us understood.
The white teens are the reason we're even hearing about this
According to
BuzzFeed News's David Mack's report on the incident, Grace Stone, a white@-year-old, said when she and her friends responded to white adults' comments that the black pool party guests should return to "Section 8 [public housing]," the older women became violent.
The police were called, and Brandon Brooks, a white 15-year-old, took out his cellphone to record what happened next — creating a record of the event that he later posted to
YouTube, along with this commentary: "So the cops just started putting everyone on the ground and in handcuffs for no reason. This kind of force is uncalled for especially on children and innocent bystanders."
"I think a bunch of white parents were angry that a bunch of black kids who don't live in the neighborhood were in the pool," he told BuzzFeed. He made it clear that he felt he was spared because of his race, saying, "Everyone who was getting put on the ground was black, Mexican, Arabic. [The cop] didn't even look at me. It was kind of like I was invisible."
"You can see in part of the video where he tells us to sit down, and he kinda like skips over me and tells all my African-American friends to go sit down," he said in
a Monday interview with CW33.
These kids decided addressing racism was their business
Stone's choice to speak about the racist comments she witnessed, and Brooks's decision to post his recording and analysis on YouTube and give an interview about what he observed, represents an unusual commitment to honesty about racism and discrimination — topics many white adults don't see through the same lens.
Pool Closed - Apparently what REALLY led up to the McKinney Incident
