(Newswire.net — June 8, 2015) — Neighbors apparently called the police after they noticed numerous teens showing up to their neighborhood. Police arrived only to break up what appeared to be a birthday party.
A video filmed on June 5 and posted on YouTube went viral, causing an outrage of what seems to be another skin color motivated police brutality. Video shows one particularl officer commanding teenagers to sit on the ground and others to move away.
The video does not show clearly what one black girl told the officer, however he violently pushed her to the ground commanded her to stick her face into the grass. The girl started crying in pain while the officer kneeled on her back. Her friends approached to try and reason with the officer, pleading that she didn’t even pose a threat. The policeman, later identified as Officer Eric Casebolt, jumped up, pulling his gun out of its holster and chased two kids away, with the girl on the ground still crying and calling for her mother.
The video also shows at one moment another officer blocking the camera view while Casebolt threw the girl down onto the ground. The teenagers were not allowed to be at the community pool, the police department said.
The McKinney Police Department said an investigation has been launched, and that officer Casebolt had been placed on administrative leave following the incident. The mistreated black girl’s father urged the Twitter community to call the McKinney Police, providing the telephone number and the name and ID number of Officer Casebolt asking them to demand Casebolt to be fired.
Meanwhile, the McKinney police spokesperson Sabrina Boston, said that the reason for the police action, which involved a dozen officers arriving at the party in the Craig Ranch North Community Pool, was the call from the neighborhood due to “multiple juveniles at the location, who do not live in the area or have permission to be there, refusing to leave.”
The McKinney police indeed “encountered a large crowd that refused to comply with police commands,” Boston officers confirmed. The department confirmed that teens were given additional reinforcement, after they refused to comply.
Police have been accused of racial prejudice in the incident, by social media users who are following the story.