Protests erupt in McKinney, Texas, over pool party incident.
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On Monday, CNN correspondent Nick Valencia spoke to an unidentified female in McKinney, Texas, who said residents in the area have received death threats over an incident involving police action at a pool party. The witness told Valencia the officer involved was doing his job because he was being attacked from behind.
The witness, Valencia added, was present from start to finish and wants the truth to be presented to the public. "She wasn't willing to go on camera because she says residents here, who are siding with police, have received death threats," he said.
"I want everyone to know that that police officer, along with everyone else, they were completely in the right and protecting everyone," the witness said. "He was not out of line. I completely support him drawing his weapon or a Taser or whatever it was that he did pull because he was being attacked from behind. I believe that if your life is threatened, that you have every right to pull a gun."
"I feel horrible for McKinney P.D. and the backlash that they're getting for this," she added. "They are here to protect and serve and they were doing their jobs." The officer, she said, "deserves a medal" for his actions.
"I spoke to a group of young black men who were at this pool party and they also tell me, Brooke, that it isn't about race and they didn't feel that they were targeted for being black, but they did say that they do not agree with the officers' actions," Valencia said. "They say it was disgusting, unjustified and there's absolutely no reason why he should have done what he did."
In a tweet issued Monday, WFAA reporter Rebecca Lopez said the officer involved has received death threats. "Source tells me McKinney Police officer in controversial video has received death threats," she said on Twitter. "He and his family are in hiding."
According to other tweets, members of the New Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam have arrived in McKinney in an apparent attempt to turn the community into another Ferguson. Another tweet showed protesters, including children, burning flags in protest.
Fox News reported that McKinney police corporal Eric Casebolt has been placed on leave, and the matter is under investigation. According to Fox, Rev. Ronald Wright of the Justice Seekers has reportedly asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the incident. Breitbart.com said Wright was "quick to liken Texas and the passage of open carry law recently signed by Governor Abbott as being ripe for a terrorist attack not by ISIS but 'USIS,' his personal Texas political slam and was a serious stretch to the situation at hand."
Wright's statement prompted a flurry of criticism on conservative websites. A post at Young Conservatives, for example, called Wright a "nutty race baiter" while other sitesaccused him of threatening Americans with ISIS-style terrorism.
Breitbart said that "all level headedness went out the window" when one father, identified as Jahi Adisa Bakari, "threatened that he was not going to stop until Casebolt was fired and threatened City of McKinney with three heavy hitters from the Nation of Islam — the hate-filled Louis Farrakhan Ajuma Muhammad and Anthony Shahid, the radical black activist associated with Ferguson." Bakari, Breitbart said, issued a warning to the community: “You don’t want that in McKinney.”
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