The confrontation with police at a community pool in McKinney Texas on Friday began with a verbal argument between white pool-goers and black pool party attendees, according to Tatiana Rhodes and her mother, Lashauna Burks, the hosts of the pool party.
Burks told the Huffington Post on Monday that she was supervising a pool party for her 19-year-old daughter to celebrate the end of school. She left for a moment to get more supplies, and returned to an argument between two white women and numerous party guests.
“When I left, a 14-year-old girl named Grace had gotten into an argument with two caucasian women,” Burks said. “My daughter came to me and said that the security guard told all the African American people to leave.”
Rhodes (pictured above), who lives in the Craig Ranch neighborhood where the pool was located, recounted what happened at the party in a video posted online by a photojournalist on Sunday.
“This lady was saying racial slurs to some friends that came to the cookout,” she said. “She was saying things such as ‘you black f****r’ and ‘that’s why you live in Section 8 homes.'”
Rhodes said that Grace “stuck up for us, saying, ‘that’s not right, you shouldn’t do that, that’s racist.'” And the women began “verbally abusing” Grace, who is white, and told her to “go back where you’re from,” according to Rhodes.
When Rhodes jumped in to defend Grace, Rhodes says one of the women hit her in the face and then both women “attacked” her.
Another witness to the altercation said that a white woman called a black woman a “young bitch” and later punched the black 19-year-old in the face. The partygoer who witnessed that altercation, Miles Jai Thomas, recorded part of the physical altercation on his phone.
Police then responded to a “disturbance involving multiple juveniles,” though it’s not clear who called with a complaint. A video shows McKinney police corporal Eric Casebolt slamming a young, black, teenage girl wearing a bikini to the ground and drawing his gun to chase other black teens away from the area. Casebolt was placed on administrative leave following the incident, and numerous groups are calling for his resignation.
“The worst thing was the cop, he was ballistic,” Burks told the Huffington Post. “He shouldn’t have had use that much force or aggression to the situation. He was unruly and outrageous.”
Watch the video interview with Rhodes and Burks below:
John Roberts - a very smart man! - says that we live in a post-racist country, so I don’t believe them. And besides, you can see just by looking at them that they’re not saints.
Well aint this a narrative buster? So the kids did have a right to be there. And they were singled out for being Black and subjected to insult and assault because they were Black. But the security guard told the Black folks to leave ( from what is a public not a private pool ) and come on now…he’s the asshole that called the Cops and probably gave them an impression it was the Blacks at fault for the disturbance.
What will Megan Kelly do now!
And to top it all…the person defending the Black kids is a white women from the neighborhood and verifies the kids were there on invitation. If we whittle away anymore of the bogus “unSaintly” crap about the Black kids the only thing that will be left is…they were Black. We may be there now.
The way the media narrative is being driven by racial prejudice is amazing. Fox News is driving this as being a bunch of black teens invading a pool without permission. The facts as the seem to be emerging is this was a scheduled pool party, some of the party goers were invitees from outside the neighborhood, but many were neighborhood kids. That some blatant racist white woman was at the center of this story is pretty clear but our prejudice driven media and the investigating police have decided to give her a pass.
Well, if there’s any hope here, it’s in the character of young Miss Grace. Bravo for your courage, young lady.
(And yes, the way this narrative initially came out it sounded like a bunch of pool jumpers who got rowdy and were ordered to leave by some racist b***h. Amazing how the real story changes those initial reports.)
It’s obvious that the racism we see on daily display across the country has been there all along, but I truly believe that the election of Obama has literally unhinged a large segment of the white population. Once he was inaugurated, they all figured that racism is gone so now they can give vent to their inner racist krazy.
Future political historians will regard the wholesale defection of white racists from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party to be one of the most momentous and far-reaching political developments in United States history. While that defection was kicked into high gear by the civil rights legislation signed into law by LBJ, it was underway as early as 1948: http://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2015/06/strom-thurmonds-swimming-pool