re: McKinney policeman suspended after pulling gun on teens, etc....

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How did the kids act like animals?

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There are a number of accounts out there. The media however won't really pay attention to them because it doesn't set the story up as well as a white, racist community calling the cops on some innocent black kids just swimming at a pool.

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"Facebook friends and family PLEASE HELP! That (now viral) video of the officer in McKinney subduing a girl in a bathing suit was in OUR neighborhood. The situation was NOT what is being reported

A DJ setup in a public space next to the private pool in our neighborhood on Friday and played loud explicit (F-bomb) music for multiple hours (it is unclear if he was invited by a resident as no one has claimed responsibility). The teenagers (both black and white) were being brought into our neighborhood by the carload because the DJ was tweeting out invites to a "pool party" for $15 (obviously unauthorized by our neighborhood). The teens began fighting with each other and pushing their way into our private pool. Some were jumping our fence. The security guard was accosted when he tried to stop the beginnings of this mob scene. Some residents who live around the park/pool area tried to come out and settle things down. The teens started yelling racial slurs at our neighbors and started assaulting people and property (throwing bottles at cars and attacking a mother at the pool with 3 young children). The first officer on the scene was by himself. At that time, the party had grown to a large, aggressive crowd. As the officer arrived, many teens started running through our neighborhood. Many of the teens were being very aggressive and yelling at the officers as more arrived.

This was a very dangerous situation for the officers AND the teens/residents not involved. The news media has refused to hear the neighborhood's side of this story. The video being distributed is only a very small segment of what happened. This information being distributed by the media and others is extremely distorted and in some cases outright lies.

PLEASE HELP US STOP THE BROADCASTING OF THIS IGNORANCE. The media is trying to make it look like our neighborhood is a white's only, racist area. Anyone who has spent even a few minutes in our area knows this is an outright LIE.

The unfortunate result is that our neighbors are now being threatened. We have also had cars and property in and around the park area vandalized this weekend. Unfortunately, the press and social media are trying to enflame the situation.
I am asking for your help for my family and my neighbor's safetyPLEASE, PLEASE do not rebroadcast any of these lies."

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One resident, Benet Embry, a black man, posted on Facebook about the events leading up to the police call. “Look, I LIVE in this community and this ENTIRE incident is NOT racial at all,” Embry wrote. “A few THUGS spoiled a COMMUNITY event by fighting, jumping over fences into a PRIVATE pool, harassing and damaging property. Not EVERYTHING is about RACE. WE have other issues that NEED our attention other flights of made up make believe causes.”

In another post he is critical of media coverage of the incident. “I’ve never seen such irresponsible reporting and miss management of media resources in my life,” he said.

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Bryan Gestner, posted on Facebook, “This was a Twitter party that turned into a mob event. Jumping pool fence. Assaulting 2 security guards, attacking a mother with three little girls. The video doesn’t show everything.” He continued saying the kids were drinking and “smoking weed” and they would not listen to any of the adults around the pool.

“This isn’t about race,” he continued. “This is about outside kids invading our neighborhood and had no respect for authority or the residents here. I have a target on my back now and I have been threatened by these punks that they are gonna shoot up my house when all I did was try to control the mob and actually tended to the girl and the boy that had a bloody lip.”

“Yall don’t know the whole story,” Gestner continued. “I commend the officer for handling this situation.”

Gestner wrapped up his post alleging that these same kids came back into the neighborhood Saturday night. They were “kicking in people’s front door, stole a truck and crashed it into many vehicles. They vandalized dozens of cars and were stealing things.”

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Sounds like animal behavior to me.

A Craig Ranch resident has posted some details on what allegedly occurred prior to the video. Probably exaggerated to some extent, just like the stories from the teens.

Craig Ranch under attack

Go look at the actual twitter feeds from those kids.

It would be nice if the news showed those.

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A Craig Ranch resident has posted some details on what allegedly occurred prior to the video. Probably exaggerated to some extent, just like the stories from the teens.

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The overall gist is there.

The basic story is combative, disrespectful teen come to an HOA pool and caused a scene with loud music, jumping the fence, and refusing to leave. There may have been worse stuff based on accounts on the internet, but the basis certainly warranted cops coming to take care of things. It all seems like it was orchestrated by some wannabe DJ and he's done it before. Residents get pissed and I can't blame them. Cops come out and the teens escalate the situation allowing for Deputy Farva to become an internet tard.

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I saw a video of two women fighting a teenage girl

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You see what you want to see. I saw a woman defending her daughter from a psycho bitch who wouldn't let go of her hair

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the kid filming was white and never got told a thing the entire video.

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yes he did. He got told to leave

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I don't care how loud or annoying the kids were being, that cop went full on retard. And I get it, I'm sure he was frustrating with the kids, they weren't showing him any respect, etc, but you just don't pull your gun on unarmed kids. You have to show more restraint than that. It is your job to understand how to handle a situation and he failed miserably.

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Exactly. Dude went on a power trip and for some reason was the only officer freaking out. The other officers seemed pretty level headed in the video.

Again, situations like this rarely end with instigators getting caught.

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He pulled his gun when two guys came at him from behind while he had the girl pinned to the ground.

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I'm aware. It was still unwarranted.

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His gun was put away quickly when the other cops came to his aid.

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Yeah, when the other cops came in and told him to cool the frick down

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The pulling of the gun as an isolated incident isn't a problem.

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no...its a problem

what is the saying? you don't pull a gun unless you intend to use it?

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Those guys ran up to him as he was trying to subdue the girl.

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"subdue" is putting it lightly hence why those guys ran up to him

everyone agrees that was excessive force, and that is why those kids ran up to him