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Racist comments prompted McKinney pool party fight, host says
A 19-year-old woman said racist comments at her McKinney pool party sparked the fight that led to a police confrontation caught on video that’s gone viral. The officer in the video has been placed on leave.
Tatyana Rhodes, who is black, told a photojournalist that another woman, who is white, told her to return to her public housing before slapping her in the face. Rhodes said she, her mother and sister live in the Craig Ranch subdivision and hosted the party there.
“She was saying things such as, ‘black F-er,’ and ‘That’s why you live in Section 8 homes,’” Rhodes said in a video posted to YouTube.
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That woman and another woman “attacked me,” Rhodes said. Rhodes spoke in a video that was posted to YouTube by Elroy Johnson, who identifies himself on LinkedIn as social media manager for Jambalaya Magazine.
Rhodes’ mother, LaShana Burks, also says in the video that the party attendees were her daughters’ classmates.
The fight prompted calls to 911 that led to police responding to the pool party.
Police Cpl. Eric Casebolt is on administrative leave after a video surfaced showing him pulling a 15-year-old girl to the ground and pinning her down. Seconds later, he pulled his gun and pointed it at two teens who appeared to try to come to her aid.
Another video posted to Twitter appears to show the fight – two white women physically fighting with a black female and two males who seem to be helping her.
Brandon Brooks, 15, who recorded the viral video, said the police arrived after a fight between a woman and a girl. Everyone ran, he said.
“So the cops just started putting everyone on the ground and in handcuffs for no reason,” Brooks wrote on YouTube. “This kind of force is uncalled for especially on children and innocent bystanders.”
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Only teen arrested at Texas pool party says he has no regrets about intervening in out-of-control cop scene: report
BY Jason Silverstein
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
The only teenager arrested at the chaotic police scene at a Texas pool party last week says he has no regrets about intervening when he believed an officer was out of control.
Adrian Martin, 18, was charged with interfering with police and evading arrest after he approached a teen girl who was getting pushed around by Cpl. Eric Casebolt — and then running when the cop pulled out his gun.
“There was no drinking, no smoking, like other people have said there was,” Martin told WFAA Tuesday. “It was just a normal teenage party.”
His comments came the same day Casebolt resigned from the McKinney Police Department, with Chief Greg Conley calling the officer’s actions “indefensible.”
Martin said he was at the pool party for only about an hour before police arrived, responding to a call about adults and kids fighting there. The scene eventually erupted into a different kind of melee, with Casebolt running around the area, cursing at black teenagers and eventually slamming one, 15-year-old Dajerria Becton, to the ground.
As Becton's cried out, Martin was one of several teens to rush to her side. He said he leaned down to tell her: “Look: We’re going to call your mom, it’s all right.”
But then Casebolt whipped out his gun and pointed it at Martin, who fled as other officers chased him. He was brought back to the scene about three minutes later in handcuffs, as seen in the seven-minute video of the incident uploaded on YouTube. It's unclear what happened during the time he was off camera.
Martin’s lawyer is calling for his case to be dismissed.
“Were his actions reasonable?” attorney Heath Harris said to WFAA. “Under the circumstances, I’d say they were reasonable.”
Harris said that, if the case goes to trial, he’s looking forward “to the opportunity to get that officer back on the stand, so he can explain why it was necessary to grab this little girl by the hair.”
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Texas officer resigns after 'indefensible' actions at pool party
By Ashley Fantz, Holly Yan and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN | Video Source: CNN
Updated 8:44 AM ET, Wed June 10, 2015
(CNN)A Texas officer widely criticized for his handling of black teens at a pool party has resigned -- even before the investigation into the case has finished.
A YouTube video that showed Eric Casebolt's response to reports of fighting at a McKinney pool party sparked swift allegations of racism.
Critics decried the white officer for cursing at several black teenagers, unholstering and waving his gun at boys and slamming at bikini-clad girl to the ground, his knees pressed down on her back.
McKinney's police chief announced Casebolt's resignation Tuesday and called Casebolt's actions "indefensible."
"Our policies, our training, our practice, do not support his actions," Police Chief Greg Conley said. "He came into the call out of control, and as the video shows, was out of control during the incident."
Prior to his resignation Casebolt had been on administrative leave as police investigated what happened at McKinney's Craig Ranch community last Friday.
It's too soon to say whether the former officer will face charges over what happened, the police chief said.
"We are continuing looking into all the allegations that are being presented to us, and any part of a criminal investigation regarding anyone will take a matter of time for us to work through all those allegations and those people who have come forward to us to complain," Conley said.
He noted that Casebolt was the only responding officer who was out of line.
"I had 12 officers on the scene, and 11 of them performed according to their training," he said. "They did an excellent job."
Casebolt's attorney has not responded to CNN's requests for comment.
While the police chief said Casebolt's actions were clearly unjustified, opinions vary as to whether race played a role.
Party host: Racist remark sparked tensions
Tatyana Rhodes was hosting a pool party Friday and said tensions flared after a racially charged fight broke out.
It started, she said, when two white women told a group of black teens they should leave and "go back to their Section 8 homes."
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One of the women, she said, smacked her in the face.
But Rhodes said the police officer took things too far.
"He didn't have to use aggression," she told CNN's "Erin Burnett: Outfront."
Now, she says she's glad he has stepped down.
"I'm happy that he's resigning," she said. "I feel that everyone in McKinney will feel better that he's resigning. ... It's the first step."
Black resident: 'This was not a racially motivated event'
Benet Embry, a black resident at Craig Ranch, saw things differently at the neighborhood pool Friday.
He said he saw a crowd of teenagers show up, even though Craig Ranch's strict homeowners' association rules prohibit bringing more than two guests to the pool.
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The teens huddled by the gate and shouted to be let in. Some jumped over the fence, Embry said. A security guard tried to get them to leave but was outnumbered, so the guard called police.
"Let me reiterate, the neighbors or the neighborhood did not call the police because this was an African-American party or whatever the situation is," he said. "This was not a racially motivated event -- at all. This whole thing is being blown completely out of proportion."
Embry did say he was disturbed to see the officer kneel on top of the bikini-clad girl and wave his gun at other teens.
"I may or may not agree with everything that the police officer did, but I do believe he was trying to establish order," he said.
White videographer: It was racially motivated
Brandon Brooks disagrees. He's the 15-year-old white teen who shot the video and said there's no doubt race was a factor in how police responded. Brandon said the officer was targeting black teens at the scene.
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"I was one of the only white people in the area when that was happening," he told CNN affiliate KDAF. "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."
Brandon said he was unnerved to see his 14-year-old friend tackled and pressed to the ground.
"I think she was 'running her mouth,' and she has freedom of speech, and that was very uncalled for him to throw her to the ground," he said.
Tackled girl: 'My back was hurting bad'
Dajerria Becton, the girl seen taken to the ground by Casebolt, told local station KDFW she had obeyed the officer's order to leave.
"He told me to keep walking," she said. "And I kept walking, and then I'm guessing he thought we were saying rude stuff to him."
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That's when things got physical, she said.
"He grabbed me, twisted my arm on my back and shoved me in the grass and started pulling the back of my braids," Dajerria told KDFW.
In the video, the officer places her hands behind her and kneels on her back.
"I was telling him to get off me because my back was hurting bad," Dajerria said.
Dajerria wasn't charged, McKinney police said. She was released to her parents.
Opinion: Pool party incident has everything to do with race
CNN's Nick Valencia, Jason Morris and Janet DiGiacomo contributed to this report.Comment
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It's interesting that none of the Whites standing near the cop, or video taping was asked to clear out of the area. Even the elderly Black gentleman who was calmly telling the young girl, not to resist, was told to clear out.Comment
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