McKinney, our police and Al Sharpton

Emotional Toll of Police Work "In an earlier post I posed the question of why Eric Casebolt, the now–former police officer in McKinney, Texas, was alone among the officers at the infamous pool party who conducted himself unprofessionally. Now we may have an explanation. In a Wednesday press conference, Casebolt’s attorney, Jane Bishkin, revealed that prior to answering the call about the party, Casebolt had responded to two incidents that were especially trying. In the first of these, a man had committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in front of his children. Casebolt consoled the widow and assisted in photographing the body. And after that, he was called to a scene where a teenage girl was threatening to kill herself by jumping from the roof of her parents’ home. Casebolt calmed the girl and the situation was resolved successfully. “The nature of these two suicide calls took an emotional toll on Eric Casebolt,” Ms. Bishkin told reporters. “With all that had happened that day, he allowed his emotions to get the better of him.”

"As his attorney said, Casebolt allowed his emotions to get the better of him, a lapse for which he has paid with the loss of his career and the prospect of an uncertain future. I don’t excuse his behavior, but I understand it better now than I did when I wrote about it earlier. I wish him well."

  Full article at National Review Online

You can be sure Al Sharpton doesn't have days like this.

 McKinney Residents Respond to Pool Party Incident… And It’s NOT What Al Sharpton Wanted

 

 . . . "Because the liberal media sees everything through the prism of race, it naturally assumed that the black children who were accosted by the police were the victims.
Many local residents disagreed.

“This isn’t about race,” resident Bryan Gestner wrote on Facebook. “This is about outside kids invading our neighborhood and had no respect for authority or the residents here.”

“I feel absolutely horrible for the police and what’s going on,” an unidentified local homeowner told reporters. “They were completely outnumbered and they were just doing the right thing when these kids were fleeing and using profanity and threatening security guards.”
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The residents of McKinney, Texas, certainly don’t blame [Officer Casebolt] or any of his peers, so perhaps we should follow their lead and give thanks where it’s due."

 More on the McKinney Case. . . " Now take the scenario of the partygoers all being white and the police officer being black. Would people have automatically reached racial conclusions in this case? Yet the ironic thing here is that, according to statistics, black violence action against whites is far more likely to be racial in nature than white violence action against blacks. Yet, in these cases, many people go out of their way not to interpret such violence in racial terms." . . .

Guess Where Al Sharpton Is Headed… This Won’t End Well

 

. . . "Sharpton said he is considering holding a rally in McKinney as early as this weekend to demand that the officer who pulled the gun be fired.

"Well, I’ll save him the trip- Officer Corporal Eric Casebolt has resigned and is now in hiding with his family due to threats from these blacks. His career is done. His life as he knew it is over. And that sucks."

The article goes on to tell us that some of Sharpton's followers are "threatening residents, vandalizing property, stealing cars, kicking in people’s doors and turning that nice community into hell." . . .