Officer suspended after video shows violent detention of teens at pool party in Texas

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A video showing now-suspended police corporal David Eric Casebolt throwing a young black girl in a bikini to the ground and drawing a gun on young pool party attendees in a Dallas suburb has once again raised questions about racial bias and aggressive policing.

Dallas-Fort Worth TV station WFAA reported that police in the suburb of McKinney "have had to call in extra dispatchers to handle incoming phone calls, asking for Casebolt to be fired.” The McKinney Police Department is currently investigating the case that has raised questions about racial bias and aggressive policing.

McKinney city spokeswoman Anna Clark confirmed the officer's identity to the Associated Press on Monday evening.

The department said officers were responding to reports of juveniles fighting at a community pool. In the YouTube video, one officer can be seen forcing a black male to the ground. He then spends a significant portion of the seven-minute video dragging to the ground and detaining a 15-year-old black girl in a bikini.

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As she tries to get up and the crowd moves closer to the scene, the officer pulls his gun out. He puts it away several seconds later and puts his knees to the girl's back while waiting for other officers to cuff her. The officer also is seen shouting and cursing at pool partygoers throughout the video, telling them to get to the other side of the street or they'd also be arrested. In the middle of the scrum, one girl yells at him, "You're not going to be a cop no more."

McKinney Mayor Brian Loughmiller said in a statement that he was “disturbed and concerned” by the actions depicted in the video, adding that officials need to act “with appropriate restraint relative to the situation they are faced with.”

Dajerria Becton, the 15-year-old girl detained in the video (originally reported as 14) and later released to her parents, told Fox4News that Casebolt “getting fired is not enough.”

A former McKinney officer told WFAA that Casebolt likely violated department policy but probably not the law in his response.

Party host Tatiana Rhodes spoke in another video on YouTube, saying she was attacked by a woman yelling racial slurs at the group, and that’s what the led to the “disturbance” that brought the police. Rhodes, 19, said she and most of the people at the pool party live in the community.

Other community members said the response was not racially motivated and that the pool cookout had grown out of control, with blaring music and teens jumping over fences and damaging property at the pool. Reports said someone placed a sign at the pool Sunday thanking the police for their response.

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Here’s what the McKinney Police Department had to say about the incident:

“The initial call came in as a disturbance involving multiple juveniles at the location, who do not live in the area or have permission to be there, refusing to leave. McKinney Police received several additional calls related to this incident advising that juveniles were now actively fighting.

First responding officers encountered a large crowd that refused to comply with police commands. Nine additional units responded to the scene. Officers were eventually able to gain control of the situation.

McKinney Police later learned of a video that was taken at the scene by an unknown party. This video has raised concerns that are being investigated by the McKinney Police Department. At this time, one of the responding officers has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of this investigation.”

Buzzfeed News spoke to the Brandon Brooks, who uploaded the original video and believes the incident was racially charged. “Everyone who was getting put on the ground was black, Mexican, Arabic,” said Brooks, who is white. “[The cop] didn’t even look at me. It was kind of like I was invisible.”

Another 14-year-old girl, who said she was the only white person detained at the scene, told BuzzFeed News the fight broke out after adults told the black juveniles to return to “Section 8 [public] housing.” The girl was released after 25 minutes and her family told BuzzFeed News they’ll file a complaint against the adult woman who made the racist remarks.

Slideshow by Mariah Medina