Re: The Dallas Texas bikini-pool party and the McKinney Police

Re: The Dallas Texas bikini-pool party and the McKinney Police

Like just about everybody else I have read the report and watched the video of the incident at the McKinney, Texas bikini pool party. Teenager Dajerria Becton, 15, was dragged by the hair and pinned face down in the dirt and kneed in the back by a most unruly policeman. 

In subsequent reports of the incident, " . . one white woman, (who declined to be identified on camera), told the Fox affiliate "They were just doing the right thing when these kids were fleeing and using profanity and threatening security guards. . ."

Note the word: "fleeing".  Not approaching,  not threatening. 

Was it not The First Amendment that guarantees free speech? It has ensured the freedom to engage in the following negative activities:
    
    a) Anti-semitic hate speech,
    b) anti-black hate speech and other racial slurs,
    c) anti-islamic hate speech,
    d)KKK publications and posters,
    e)The new Nazi movement publicly denouncing the jews and denying the holocaust,
    Etc  The list goes on. 

With the above background, I fail to see how the free use of "profanities" by a 15year old girl wearing only a bikini, abused and traumatised, cannot be accommodated by a supposedly trained police officer. Notwithstanding his resignation, as opposed to being fired, officer Eric Casebolt has an expensive civil suit staring him in the face. Some people never learn. When he loses his retirement nest egg and throws in (in the Nigerian parlance) the family land, then he would have learnt the hard way. 

There was this then decried apartheid-era law or concept of Common Cause which should hold culpable those adult white males who stood by unconcerned while the outrage lasted. Their behaviour was simply despicable. The responsibility goes way beyond vicarious. For goodness sake, it could have been their daughter in a different circumstance.