Police behaving badly.. . again

[orphanedhawk]

McKINNEY, Texas — The organizer of a pool party in Texas where a police officer's interactions with a 15-year-old girl were caught on video, said Sunday the police officer had "no reason" to act the way he did.

The seven-minute YouTube video shows Cpl. Eric Casebolt using profanity and aggressively throwing a 15-year-old girl in a bathing suit to the ground, face down. He then appeared to pin her down with his knees.

"He was just aggressive for no reason at all," said Tatyana Rhodes, one of the party's organizers. "It was horrible."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/06/08/texas-police-officer-reaction-pool-party/28673177/

[orphanedhawk]

The girl was wearing a bikini and kept repeating that she wanted her mother, who was there at the time.

I'm sorry but just because a cop says something to me or anyone else doesn't give him the right to throw me to the ground and put his knee into my back.

Honestly, I don't want to bash police officers. I want them to be properly trained so they don't abuse people's rights. I want the few bad apples thrown out so we can have police that we trust.

[Vance2335]

She can say anything she wants, doesn't mean she is going to get it.

[brice1967]

Cameras do not tell the whole story.

Another version of the story says that there was a fight that broke out just off screen to the right.  The fight had been broken up before and this girl was trying to intervene at the same time the cop was trying to break the fight up.  

if there is any truth to that story, this girl was out of line.  Don't interfere.  

When it comes to dealing with the cops, everyone needs to be smart enough to know that the situation can go in any direction and what you say or do can be the deciding factor.  Be accountable for what you do and what you say.  do everything you can to remove yourself and any wrong doing on your part from the situation.  Self perseverance...  You owe it to yourself to know and understand this.

Do not confuse perceived rights with outright stupidity.

[el_em_en_oh]

So if there are cops on the scene giving me a hard time, and I'm calling for my mommy, that gives me a right to NOT listen to the cops?

And if I'm wearing a bikini, doubly so?

I don't understand what her calling for her mom, and her wearing a bikini, have to do with anything.

[orphanedhawk]

She was 14 years old ! Not an adult, you silly.

I would think she was scared senseless. If it'd been me at that time in my life, I'd have been in tears.

[R Glass]

I started to reply then realized, why bother?