Last weekend, a video of McKinney, Texas police officer Eric Casbolt forcefully arresting and pulling a weapon on a group of black teens surfaced. After being placed on administrative leave, Casebolt resigned. Many say this is not enough. On his Huffpost Live show, Marc Lamont Hill discusses how this case forces us to recognize state violence as a women's issue too. This is a fact that black women have been trying to bring attention to for years.
As part of their coverage on the McKinney, Texas pool party incident—where a police officer was caught on camera slamming a teenage girl into the ground and then pointing his gun at unarmed teen boys who rushed to her aid—The Daily Show enlisted the help of correspondent Jessica Williams in addressing the absurdity of the outrageous behavior seen from the officer.
The 15-year-old girl seen being held down by a police officer in McKinney, TX shares her side of what happened that day in an interview with FOX 4 News - Dallas-Fort Worth. She was an invited guest at the pool party, and not involved in the fight which police officers responded to.
19-year-old Tatiana was one of the organizers of the pool party in McKinney, Texas that ended with police terrorizing kids in the Dallas suburb. Tatiana explains to interviewer E. Johnson that during the cook out, a white woman approached some of the attendees with hostile language. "This lady was saying racial slurs to some friends that came to the cook out...she was saying things such as 'You black *****' and 'That's why you live in Section 8 homes.'"
A police officer in McKinney, Texas has been placed on administrative leave after a video surfaced showing one cop pull a gun on a crowd of teens at a pool party.
Video that surfaced after the incident shows Officer Eric Casebolt slamming a 15-year-old girl to the ground while she is wearing only a two-piece bathing suit. The girl was later released without charge.
Police say they were dispatched to a community pool after a caller said several teenagers were in the area who did not live there or have permission to be there and were refusing to leave.
