Officer Suspended After Pulling Weapon On Teens During Pool Party
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Beyond the points I stated, nothing you stated applies to this situation that the average teenager of any race is going to recognize.
They apply to all situations. Not recognizing that is part of the problem teens have as no one is taking the time to help them understand it.
Race has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Teens can remember 4 things but not 3 and those 3 go along way to eliminating the need to bother with the 4?
We can teach teens to record the activity but not avoid it? We can teach them to answer with direct answers to the police but not getting in situations where police encounters are probable?
This comes under having time to do it over but not enough time to do it right.
The only video I've seen is what has been broadcast by CNN. Brooke Baldwin, an anchorwoman, commented today that we don't know what happened before or after that video.
If the kids were just mindin' their own business, why not sue the person who called the police?
They apply to all situations. Not recognizing that is part of the problem teens have as no one is taking the time to help them understand it.
Race has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Teens can remember 4 things but not 3 and those 3 go along way to eliminating the need to bother with the 4?
We can teach teens to record the activity but not avoid it? We can teach them to answer with direct answers to the police but not getting in situations where police encounters are probable?
This comes under having time to do it over but not enough time to do it right.
We should extend this. If you're over 21, never go out to a bar. People drinking, you never know what might happen. If something does happen and the cops come and you're caught in the midst of it, it's All Your Fault.
Never help someone who's been injured, ESPECIALLY not if there was anything questionable about how the injury occurred. The police might think you were responsible and haul you in (I read a story recently on exactly this happening).
Don't be on the roads late at night/very early in the morning. Doesn't matter if you're coming home from a late shift job. If you absolutely have to, don't drive an older car, as you're just asking to be pulled over (I can relate multiple stories from my wife on this issue). Or don't drive "too nice" of a car, especially if you happen to be of an ethnicity different from the prevailing type in the area you're driving through. Or maybe "if you're black, set yourself a 10PM curfew".
You know, it's funny, I've seen plenty of teens do things they shouldn't have, even have loud parties and act unruly, sometimes get the cops called on them, yet NOT ONCE have I seen any of them be pulled down, have their head shoved into the ground and been kneed to the back. Nor have I ever seen any of them have a gun pulled on them by an officer.
Of course, those teens were all upper-middle class and up...and they virtually ALL were white.
They apply to all situations. Not recognizing that is part of the problem teens have as no one is taking the time to help them understand it.
Race has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Teens can remember 4 things but not 3 and those 3 go along way to eliminating the need to bother with the 4?
We can teach teens to record the activity but not avoid it? We can teach them to answer with direct answers to the police but not getting in situations where police encounters are probable?
This comes under having time to do it over but not enough time to do it right.
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1. Do the right things
2. Obey the laws
3. Avoid situations that have a
high potential for problems
"I got invited to a pool party by my classmate." What was wrong that a teenager would recognize? What was against the law that a teenager would recognize? What made it a high potential for problems that a teenager would recognize?
Most any normal teenager could easily have wound up in the situation that existed when the police arrived: With a group of classmates mostly doing nothing on a summer afternoon. It's not unusual for the police to be called on a group of classmates mostly doing nothing on a summer afternoon because someone got nervous over a group of classmates mostly doing nothing on a summer afternoon.
Police can show up in any number of situations in which the average teenager doesn't see anything "wrong." It is important for them to understand what to do when the police do show up.
For sure, girls need to shut up--and it's mostly girls (of any race) who don't know how to shut up. Then they get the boys involved, because boys are not going to let the girls do all the fronting by themselves. Notice even in this circumstance, the boys were docile until they felt they needed to come to the aid of the girls. That even happens among adults of all races, ages, and economic levels--women have a harder time keeping their mouths closed when they think they're being disrespected. Men will at least mentally recognize whether their butts can cash the checks their mouths might write.
Then they need to move out of the way of whatever the police are doing and whatever area the police are attempting to control.
But this isn't Mayberry, and even white males suffer a 38% arrest rate. So they need to call an adult who will be responsible for them and record the situation. Again, we're not in Mayberry anymore.
By the way, I'm watching CNN now and there was just a black man who was at the pool who gave his interpretation of what happened. He stated that the video doesn't get into the chaos that was occurring prior to the police's arrival. He stated that there were fights, security guards asking people to leave, people climbing over the center's walls to gain entry despite being told to leave, etc. His words (paraphrasing): "there are many things for us to get upset about, but this isn't one of them."
Granted, this is one person, and there have been other accounts as to what happened, but it is still pretty telling.
Now, even if these accounts turn out to be correct, in my view the officer in question here acted in a manner that was uncalled for (from the profanity to the general lack of professionalism). But there's a lot that's unknown here all the same.
I hear people saying that the matter was a racial one because the cops only targeted the "black and Hispanic kids," leaving the white people alone. These are nothing more than Al Sharptonian tactics of race-baiting without having much evidence to support. Indeed, not only were not all of the black swimmers targeted (watch the videos . . . there are quite a few black individuals who are free and about, not being targeted for arrest), but I see nothing but black teens running as the cops approach. The cop's in question aggression aside, the police seem to have been targeting those who were running; you can't claim racism for not targeting whites if whites weren't running.
The only video I've seen is what has been broadcast by CNN. Brooke Baldwin, an anchorwoman, commented today that we don't know what happened before or after that video.
If the kids were just mindin' their own business, why not sue the person who called the police?
The police were called because 2 40 something white women hit a 19 year old in the face after they began arguing about the kids being from section 8 housing. A la take your friends back to section 8 housing.
Black people can claim racism as much as they want just as much whites who have never been black insist on trying to surgically remove any suggestion of such. The subject arises consistently because from the darker perspective we witness more black people getting slammed and shot to the ground than those who keep trying to downplay the brutality. The real issue however, is that police officers of all variety are losing their minds downright. And it is genuinely apathetic to suggest that something such as a claim of racism or not, should be the focal point of any discussion about abuse of power by government authories, when the fact remains that what resembles a pattern of genocide against minorities and poor is taking place before our eyes while our judicial system twiddles its thumbs.
If you have to be restrained from pulling a gun on an unarmed teenager in a bikini that doesn't pose a threat, then you shouldn't be a police officer.
You Must not have watched the video.
He pulled the gun in response to the Boy who approached him on his blind side while he was involved with the girl. It was a response to the boy not the girl.
I think this police officer was totally out of control and he should have called for backup before he left his car . I felt sorry for the girl because she was asking people to call her moma and any teenager that says that is really scared . I know when my son broke his leg he asked a friend who was with him to please run and get me because he was really scared . I can only imagine this girls heart was racing from not knowing if she was going to be shot or not .I think this guy over reacted and maybe needs to be re evaluated as a police officer and maybe should be fired if his record has spots on it .
1. The one cop was calmly and professionally talking to some kids, one of whom actually returned his flashlight to him. And then Casebolt shows up and totally blows his top--even though all the kids were just standing around talking. He acted as if a riot had started.
If you are talking about the cop who had his flashlight returned, that was Casebolt, I believe.
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Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo
If the kids were just mindin' their own business, why not sue the person who called the police?
Sue the person for what?
If you see someone breaking into a home so you call 911, the cops show up and it's the home owner who lost his keys, should you be sued?
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