Texas cop placed on leave for pulling gun on teens at neighborhood pool party

Eric Casebolt

Once again, a racist incident involving white cops and unarmed black youths has divided the country along color lines.

The incident involves an end-of-school pool party held in a McKinney, Texas gated community, that dissolved into chaos when several fights broke out between white residents who objected to black youths swimming in their community pool.

Some of the black youths were invited to the pool party while others reportedly "jumped the fence" to get in. The party had been advertised on social media.

Witnesses say a white woman hurled racist epithets at a group of black girls. The woman then attacked a 19-year-old girl, punching her in the face. A fight broke out between the woman and 2 younger girls.

Someone called 911. What happened next was captured by a neighborhood boy on his cell phone.

The first officers arriving on the scene were calm and responded to the situation in a professional manner.

Then Officer Eric Casebolt arrived, somersaulting into the camera view in an overly dramatic manner. He jumped up and began chasing only the black youths, ordering them to get on the ground for no reason.

Casebolt was out-of-control from the moment he arrived. He handcuffed only the black kids, screaming profanities at 14-year-old girls who were simply standing around. Casebolt approached a 14-year-old girl who didn't move fast enough, snatched her by her hair extensions and flipped her to the ground. He buried her face in the grass and straddled her back, as she cried for her mother.

2 adult males approached Casebolt in an aggressive manner and Casebolt drew his weapon. If not for the quick actions of another cop, we would be talking about another officer-involved shooting of an unarmed black male.

The video left many viewers shaken and outraged. Others -- who only see race as a factor in police brutality cases -- blamed the black youths for the cop's aggressive and wholly inappropriate behavior.

Casebolt was placed on administrative leave (not suspension) while the incident is "thoroughly investigated."

Many are calling for Casebolt's termination, including TV writer and producer Shonda Rhimes. Rhimes, a lesbian who adopted 2 daughters and had a 3rd by surrogate, fired off a stream of Tweets questioning the officer's actions.

Rhimes tweeted: "My kids didn't wanna get out of pool today. ANYONE think best way 2 handle is grab 'em by throat, slam em to ground & cuff 'em? Hell no…. How hard is it to TO NOT ASSAULT A CHILD?" she asked.

  • SummerBaby

    This is so far beyond out of control. It truly sickens me that nearly every day something like this is happening. :pray:

  • https://www.facebook.com/pages/She_ShowOut/1386876974967664?fref=ts She_ShowOut

    This is the saddest video I saw all weekend. Horrible!!! When will the this end.

  • luVn_liFe…

    This is so Fcuked UP!!!!!
    The YT kid filming said he was invisible to the police, they NEVER said a Word to him.

    :angry:
    Only the Black Kids needed to be detained to assess the situation, Cause SURE all the YTS belonged!

    :cuss:

  • San ah

    THis shyt right here :nono: Completely out of line and I would sue the heLL out of that fool

  • iWasteTime

    This was so crazy. 15 year old, girls in swimwear!
    I want to know why those two white women were not arrested for assaulting minors
    #cantbelife.
    Just as bad as the murderers escaping prison with power tools, but the news wants to focus on kids being made they couldn't get into a show they paid for :no:

  • https://www.etsy.com/shop/AMarieNaturals lovezoe

    Disgusted do t even begin to describe my emotions.

  • luVn_liFe…

    And look at the BIG YT gorilla bissh pummeling the teenage girl up there
    :nono:

    lawd I Keep your hands on these kids, I know they have to be emotionally upset about this. :mad:

    I'd have to go find that big biahhh :shank: I would. :nono:

  • Just Looking

    It's a small incident, (no one was killed); then the next one will cause all out race war. Praying that it will not come to that. Unfortunately that is the direction it's headed to here in the United States with a African American President.

  • https://www.facebook.com/lists/10150387562179388#!/video.php?v=347882248719363 User Friendly

    Thank GOD! for camera phones cuz i bet ppl thought oh black ppl always acting victimized.

    Thats a girl child!!! A girl!!! Child!!!!! :rules: they dont even treat our babies right.

    Meanwhile they had some concert over by me this wknd & white kids were drunk, high, & throwing bottles into traffic. Not nan news truck came out. :tea:

  • San ah

    :kiss: Wasting! In case you didnt see downstairs lol

  • Toni

    I can only imagine how their parents feel I know I would be suing someone if those were my kids.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zyw7ijpepk Milanisti

    Good Lord :no:

  • luVn_liFe…

    2 adult males approached Casebolt in an aggressive manner and Casebolt drew his weapon. If not for the quick actions of another cop, we would be talking about another officer-involved shooting of an unarmed black male
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    those two males looked like TEENS to me. Yes that one cop :applause: he reacted quickly moving that officers gun down. :blink:
    NO Need for that! :nono:

    This had me twisted last night now im pisst AWF all over again

  • San ah

    Thats a girl child!!! A girl!!! Child!!!!! :rules: they dont even treat our babies right.
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    Sad User sad :no: Shyt aint right. Did you see how they got out the way when he pulled that gun out :no:

  • Just Looking

    @Sunshine Luvn - Not BIG YT Gorilla.

    Yes, you said it and it's true. I mean she is a big lady.

    MCkinnely is suppose to be the "melting pot" of Texas, but Iono now.

    The outcome of this will say alot, thankfully he has suspended. Next action should be termination, these police are going to learn, that the a badge does not give them permission to bully at kill at will.

  • Torae

    They need to press charges against those white bishes. I'm really sick of this and it disgusts me to the core. We as parents would get arrested for child abuse if we man handled our children like that. In the video there was also a white fat man restraining the 14 year old.....sickening

  • https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kPI_xA1SoRg Mother Of Dragons, Shopaholic, Geek

    DF said he'd have ended up in jail had that been our kids. Said you are not going to yank my unarmed half naked daughter to the ground and sit on her and get away with it. I said I'd be right there with a lawyer to get you out and sue EVERYBODY :fistbump: This is beyond sickening.

  • iWasteTime

    I'd be dead or in jail if that was my baby :no:

  • datsmdubya2u

    And who was fighting was the racist yt woman who told the kids to go back to section 8 housing and young WHITE teen who confronted her about what she said..the 911 call didnt report 2 sprites fighting but that there werebkids there who didnt belong and were not invited…so when the po pos roll up who looks like they “dont belong”? The po pos were completely wrong but i would have liked to see more black adults at the party. The party was given by a AA teen and her mom..but i think if more AA adults had been there the white filks would thought twice b4 hurling the racist stuff at them in the first place

  • luVn_liFe…

    Torae says: They need to press charges against those white bishes.We as parents would get arrested for child abuse if we man handled our children like that
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    Exactly :yes:

  • http://facebook.com/letthemenvy Tia

    Honestly, I watched the entire video and aside from him being too rough handling the girl, I don't think he did anything wrong. People love sensationalizing stuff.

  • Torae

    White kids in my area...raided the Target about 12 of them and ran out the clothes and groceries. They were recorded doing this and do u think it made the news.....NO!...this is baltimore county by the way...15 mins from where the riots happened.

  • https://www.etsy.com/shop/AMarieNaturals lovezoe

    And you got these alaabasters thinking it's okay. The white fools at the swim club posted a sign in support of those pigs. Where was that baby gun? In her snatch?

    I follow Jen Hatmaker. She adopted two African kids. She posted how she was heartbroken. Why does this keep happening. Folks mad. I love the fact that because she's white, she remembers she has black babies.

  • San ah

    :tea: DEAD wrong

  • https://www.facebook.com/lists/10150387562179388#!/video.php?v=347882248719363 User Friendly

    Sad User sad :no: Shyt aint right. Did you see how they got out the way when he pulled that gun out :no:
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    Heck yeah. He was wilin. Might be on that yayo :snort: something gotta be wrong with him :no:

    Savages!

  • https://www.etsy.com/shop/AMarieNaturals lovezoe

    Honestly, I watched the entire video and aside from him being too rough handling the girl, I don’t think he did anything wrong. People love sensationalizing stuff.
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    Watch it again. With coon shades. He did a barrel roll. Chased kids down. Two kids were ON THE GROUND, yet he cursed at them more. Bye.

  • SummerBaby

    Honestly, I watched the entire video and aside from him being too rough handling the girl, I don’t think he did anything wrong. People love sensationalizing stuff.
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    :huh: Do you have kids, siblings, nieces, nephews? So you would be cool if one of them were the victim?

  • Just Looking

    The threatening with the gun scene with the teens was WAY TOO MUCH.

    I am sure that is why he was suspended.

    The rough handling of the bathing suit dressed girl, is not against the law. Unfortunately.

    BBL

  • https://www.facebook.com/lists/10150387562179388#!/video.php?v=347882248719363 User Friendly

    Tia says:

    Honestly, I watched the entire video and aside from him being too rough handling the girl, I don’t think he did anything wrong. People love sensationalizing stuff.
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    :blink: :banned:

  • https://www.etsy.com/shop/AMarieNaturals lovezoe

    Then alabasters didn't want them kids in the pool. They were scared they were going to cat h black. Yet they love that Mandingo.

  • WhoDat

    White devils! :mad:

  • datsmdubya2u

    She was already on the ground what did he think she was gonna do? I :pray: they fire this guy

  • https://www.etsy.com/shop/AMarieNaturals lovezoe

    *without coon shades

  • https://twitter.com/#!/K3Renee Keys

    This video made me so angry especially how he handled the little girl. Smh....it's so easy for them to pinpoint all the black kids but what about the others. Why was the person who recorded the 7 minute video not told to get back or go away?

  • http://theempirefiend.tumblr.com/ Bird

    Then Officer Eric Casebolt arrived, somersaulting into the camera view in an overly dramatic manner. He jumped up and began chasing only the black youths
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    :hahaha:
    I gotta watch the video for this part alone. I can't say much about the rest, cause I'm the type that be wanting to lay hands on these chirren when they cut a fool. Raise your hands if you've had chirren just walk in front of your car IN THE STREET and not try to move out the way? Were any of them white? Yeah, I be fantasizing about mowing em down so I don't know if I have the right to protest when somebody snap on dey azz. But the somersault I gots to see. :LOL:

  • iWasteTime

    :sigh:
    That is the problem
    You ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO FIND THAT ACCEPTABLE!
    She was sitting down already in a phucking bikini!
    Nothing is wrong with him slamming her, pulling her braids, siting on her and then putting a knee in her back. :no:
    #cantbeyourlife

  • datsmdubya2u

    Honestly, I watched the entire video and aside from him being too rough handling the girl, I don’t think he did anything wrong. People love sensationalizing stuff.
    —----------

    Shut up...how come the white folk that were fighting in the first place didnt get handcuffed? No way he shoulda been slinging that baby around like that :mad:

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqjT_YqmNas Long Time Lurker

    When this vid popped up in my timeline and this fool come on my screen rolling and then jumping up running, I just knew it was some kind of parody. :blink:

    Then I watched the whole video..... :no:

    #BailMoney

  • https://www.etsy.com/shop/AMarieNaturals lovezoe

    Lurk- someone saud when he did that move, they knew he was a dirtbag.

  • https://www.etsy.com/shop/AMarieNaturals lovezoe

    It's the blacks that defends this that me angry. Or the whites with black babies. :kona: too angry

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqjT_YqmNas Long Time Lurker

    lovezoe says:

    Lurk- someone saud when he did that move, they knew he was a dirtbag.
    ___________________________

    :cosign:

    He been practicing that move since he was in the academy. :coffee:

  • iWasteTime

    Why was the person who recorded the 7 minute video not told to get back or go away?
    -------------------------
    Nope!
    That white kid said he was invisible!

  • datsmdubya2u

    @longtime

    He like :bounce: "here's my chance!" Finally!

  • http://theempirefiend.tumblr.com/ Bird

    Long Time Lurker says:

    lovezoe says:

    Lurk- someone saud when he did that move, they knew he was a dirtbag.
    ___________________________

    He been practicing that move since he was in the academy.
    ********************************

    :hahaha:

    Ok, that does it. Let me go outdoors and watch this dramatic footage. It sounds like a doosie. Plus I think I need to see it to feel the anger that everyone else is feeling. Right not I'm just envisioning this guy cartwheeling and back hand springing onto the scene and all I can do is snicker. My daughter didn't tell me that part yesterday when she was telling me about it.

  • sassyshe

    I saw this mess on IG yesterday and I was like what the hell did that poor girl do to deserve such treatment. He was trigger happy and was looking for someone to jump the wrong way to pull a gun on them. I really do think that psychologicals need to be completed as part of the assessment process to be an officer as it would help to indicate some reason why these fools are trying to become officers. It is a goddam shame that these kids had to go through this and for all the parents that were justifying this crap, I hope one day their kids face unwarranted brutality and see how powerless it feels to not have justice for your child, smh

  • Torae

    Tia says:

    Honestly, I watched the entire video and aside from him being too rough handling the girl, I don’t think he did anything wrong. People love sensationalizing stuff.
    -----------------------------
    I'm sorry but it's people like you that eff's it up for the rest of us. You're mindset is disgusting and I hope nothing like this happens to you or you're loved ones. Pathetic....

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zyw7ijpepk Milanisti

    :newpost: Meek n Nicki :rolleyes:

  • iWasteTime

    I need those two white women to be arrested for assaulting minors.
    Chit started cause there were too many blacks at the damn pool, they were invited to. Had grown people talking crazy to and putting their hands on them.

  • MissHarlem

    I try my best to stay away from this chit but it's impossible. So fcking frustrating that this country is stuck. Even worse when we defend stupidity. Just proves that ignorance is at an all time high.

  • zeta4lif

    GM Beautiful ROSAYS :hi:

    @MILLY & LIL MAL' :kiss: on the baby bump and cute pic,
    girl is your "info" still safe, my director them all in a meeting now and we all got one at 1pm :scared:

    @LOVEZ :hug: :kiss: (check e-mail after lunch your time)

    @WHO "roaches or nah dis Monday, AND GREAT INFO for @BASIC, dat nigga was a coon, and bi-sexual,

    ONTOPIC: I WISH THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN MY CHILD, I GOT ATTEMPTED MURDER, USE OF DEADLY FORCE, AND WHATEVER ELSE THEY CAN THROW AT ME

    :mad:

  • Torae

    And for the most part police officers are not only UNEDUCATED but they are psychotic as well. My ex b/f came back from Afghanistan (was one of the first people shipped over there.) He came back with ptsd and was a crazed, stalker, suicidal drunk that couldn't find a job..guess whatjob he applied for? Trenton P.D. 9 years later he still does not have an education(this mofo barely graduated high school)...still crazy and an alcoholic.

  • https://www.etsy.com/shop/AMarieNaturals lovezoe

    Zeta/ you don't forget now :rofl:

  • datsmdubya2u

    I need those two white women to be arrested for assaulting minors.
    Chit started cause there were too many blacks at the damn pool, they were invited to. Had grown people talking crazy to and putting their hands on them.

    by iWasteTime on

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    Where were the black adults tho? Dem whites woulda been to scared to start ish with those children had there been more black adults there.... :smh:

  • luVn_liFe…

    somersaulting into the camera view
    ~~~~~~
    dude went into ops mode, ready to start slaying these kids like he's at WAR
    FOH w/not much wrong here.

  • http://youtu.be/bQaBEm_mh5U I AM MisTaken I don’t get tired :huh: of being PETTY :)

    Listen and understand me
    1) If I saw that police officer abusing (cause that is what it was) my child like that I might have reacted more aggressively than the two young men
    2) So when you see someone be assaulted ILLEGALLY and without cause by someone in authority the thing to do is to just sit there and allow it to happen because you might get shot? So you would want someone to stand there? :huh:
    3) If my husband saw this happened to any of our kids he would be in jail because the cop would be paralyzed, not breathing or on the cusp of visiting hell permanently. People better learn who to play with. Everybody doesn’t take injustice and attacking our children in a “respectful” manner. Everybody don’t march. And for those that don’t march..we have no business judging them.
    4) Kat Stack …a sack of sperm and skin waste said the kids deserved to get beat because they shouldn’t have been disobedient. FOH. :rolleyes: That is the problem will SIMPLE MINDED folks. They will always find a justification for hate and mistreatment of others. Until it happens to them

  • https://www.facebook.com/lists/10150387562179388#!/video.php?v=347882248719363 User Friendly

    It is a goddam shame that these kids had to go through this and for all the parents that were justifying this crap, I hope one day their kids face unwarranted brutality and see how powerless it feels to not have justice for your child, smh
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    I dont. You on ya own with that bc you dont know how this girl's parents thought beforehand. It serves no one any good to have their child snatched by her hair by the police. Would u really be happy to see Kia's kid in this position? :no:

    Dont put that out into the universe.

  • https://www.etsy.com/shop/AMarieNaturals lovezoe

    If my husband saw this happened to any of our kids he would be in jail because the cop would be paralyzed, not breathing or on the cusp of visiting hell permanently. People better learn who to play with. Everybody doesn’t take injustice and attacking our children in a “respectful” manner
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    My husband woulda been a hashtag. For real. He was watching it shaking his head. In that fat wannabe Chris Christie protecting that pig. Shielding a bastard pointing a gun at kids in swim trunks and bikinis. Welcome to Amerikka.

  • datsmdubya2u

    White people are bullies period and cowards...never woulda happened if black adults had been there..dem pank toed gorillas woulda been to scared

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKUg9iK7xeU RAZZ be like: :tea:

    :facepalm:

    I'm sure that poor baby was scared for her life. I hope they fire his ass.

  • love_22_nina

    TIA is a fool like the cops slam her kids family members or even her dumb arse around...stupid

  • http://theempirefiend.tumblr.com/ Bird

    Lordt forgive me, but I just watched the video without sound and that roll move the officer did was just way too funny for me to be outraged. Coupled with the white socks I just couldn't maintain any seriousness.

  • cookiemobster

    What this officer did is highly inappropriate!! And in NO WAY should he have man handeled that child that way!!! But people have got to realize that you are not supposed to argue with the police. If the cops get to a situation they have to think about their safety as well as the safety of others. You may have not done anything wrong, but if they tell you to sit down or stand up or whatever, I was raised to do it. That diffuses the situation a whole lot quicker and is a lot safer for everyone.

  • Meme81

    I don't even need to see the video, I'm sure it's excessive force. We already know what's going to happen-administrative leave, 'thorough investigation', local community protests and some rioting, investigation finds no wrongdoing and cop reinstated. Rinse and repeat.

    :no:

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybcNSoh8vI4 VDot

    somersaulting into the camera view

    *****

    I thought it was a joke at first. Watched it 5 tines :hahaha:

    But fukk these cracker azz pigs *spits*

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybcNSoh8vI4 VDot

    Honestly, I watched the entire video and aside from him being too rough handling the girl, I don’t think he did anything wrong.

    ****

    You sound hideous :no:

  • BiggE

    What I don't understand is why this was escalated. Were the kids rowdy, were they disrespectful? Or were they just ruining some white racist day off? To have guns pulled on kids who were doing absolutely nothing and to justify it, is fucking ridiculous. Sorry.

  • shirleyton

    :newbie: I felt very uncomfortable watching a grown man representing the law of the land restrain a barely dressed young female teen by straddling her facedown...no let me be honest and rephrase that...a grown white man restraining a young and very scared Black American teen.