Dajerria becton, the 15yearold girl seen being thrown to the ground by a mckinney police officer in a controversial incident says the officer should be fired and receive other punishment. Out of control mckinney police officer who drew gun on. Texas teen who shot shocking video of cop at pool party speaks. Texas police officer shown in viral pool party video resigns. The criminalization of black girls in schools, is a condition that has plagued black girls and.
Mckinney pool party aims to mend community relations. A cellphone video showing a white officer shoving a black teenage girl to the ground in mckinney, tex. Teen angry that cop wasnt charged for wrestling her to. Jun 09, 2015 the incident, which centered on unarmed dajerria becton, 15, happened in the predominantly white town of mckinney in dallas, texas and left the towns mayor disturbed and concerned by the footage. He grabbed me, twisted my arm on my back and shoved me in the grass and started pulling the back of my braids, dajerria becton told the station. Eric casebolt pins 15yearold dajerria becton to the floor outside a. Mckinney pool party lawsuit, dallas police, amazon alexa. Mckinney, texas eric casebolt the police corporal in mckinney, texas, who was shown in a video that went viral over the weekend yanking a 14yearold bikiniclad girl to the ground and. Eric casebolt wrestle 14yearold dajerria becton to the ground, presumably because women of. In a video filmed on friday in mckinney cpl casebolt, who is white, is seen pinning 15yearold dajerria becton to the ground with his knees. Dajerria becton claims casebolt used excessive force and that the police force wasnt properly trained. This video is either unavailable or not supported in this browser. Jun 09, 2015 protesters called for the officer to be fired as they marched through mckinney, texas.
Casebolt also dispersed a group of girls, shouting, i dont care, youre leaving now. The lawyer for dajerria becton, the 15yearold girl who was wrestled to the ground, told broadly in an email. David eric casebolt detaining dajerria becton following a disturbance at a neighborhood pool. By placing the individual stories of sandra bland, rekia boyd, dajerria becton, monica jones, and mya hall in the broader context of the twin epidemics of police violence. Video shows lapd officer striking man repeatedly on sidewalk florida driver crashes on. Settlement agreement reached in mckinney pool party lawsuit by steve pickett may 29, 2018 at 7. National organization for women responds to the mckinney incident. Casebolt was captured on cellphone video pushing the 15yearold, bikiniclad becton to the ground at a pool party in june 2015 and pointing his gun at other teens, as well as briefly running after other teenagers before being stopped by fellow police officers.
Why are black girls disproportionally pushed out of schools. Video from the friday partyturnedfight shows mckinney police cpl. Casebolt was captured on cellphone video pushing the 15yearold, bikiniclad becton to the ground at a pool party in june 2015 and pointing his gun at other teens, as well as briefly running after other teenagers before being stopped by. Mckinney pool posted signs thanking officers after brutal. Up next russell brand funny and best moments funny videos duration. Mckinney, texas, girl who was slammed to the ground by. In the video you can see former officer eric casebolt pining then 15yearold dajerria becton to the ground after trying to break up a pool party. For dajerria becton, saturday will mark the end of a terrible period in her young life. Buzzfeeds fazeelat aslam posted a video today of women in bikinis watching former mckinney police cpl. Eric casebolt has resigned days after a video of him at a pool party in mckinney, texas, went viral and sparked allegations of racism. David eric casebolt, who is white, throwing the teenager, dajerria becton. Police beat teendajerria becton, 15yearold party youtube. Jun 11, 2015 dallas ap in a story june 10 about fallout from the police response to a texas community pool party, the associated press misspelled the name of a 15yearold girl forced to the ground by an officer. They were angry that the officer pulled a gun and pushed a teenage girl to the ground at a.
Jarring image of polices use of force at texas pool party. Video dajerria bectons attorneys hannah stroud and. Prior calls took emotional toll on texas officer lawyer. The clips show a white police officer, corporal eric casebolt, pinning down 14yearold africanamerican girl dajerria becton who kelly characterized as being no saint either on the kelly. Black girl tackled by cop at texas pool party gets settlement from department and city dajerria becton, the black teenager tackled by a white cop in a viral 2015 video, has been awarded a settlement.
Pool party girl plans on filing lawsuit against mckinney and. Cell phone video showed casebolt slamming teenager dajerria becton to the ground in mckinney, texas, last week. I so hope that dajerria becton s parents file a civil suit against craig ranch and their management company. As more and more incidents of violence by police officers against. Now a settlement has been reached in favor of becton.
Mckinney police corporal eric casebolt is seen on the video taking down 15yearold dajerria becton, an invited guest who says she was not involved in the fight. Say her name movement gains momentum after video shows. The video shows a 15yearold black girl, dajerria becton, walking away with the group. Officer in poolparty video resigns breaking news from ireland. Bikiniclad girl thrown to ground by mckinney officer. The bikiniclad teenage girl who was forcibly restrained by a police officer responding to a disturbance at a pool party in a dallas suburb over the weekend says she was an invited guest and was obeying his orders to leave when he grabbed her. That girl, identified as 15yearold dajerria becton, said she was. Inside edition a video taken in june 2015 shows police officer eric casebolt taking down 15yearold dajerria becton outside a pool party in mckinney, texas. She then stops and turns back towards casebolt and its not clear if she says something to him. National organization for women responds to the mckinney incident hours after roland martin, host of newsone now, challenged national womens organizations to speak out on the mckinney pool party incident where a 14yearold dajerria becton was brutally forced to the ground, the national organization for women responded to the injustice. Girl who was pinned to the ground by a cop at a texas pool. Excop who threw teen girl to ground at texas party not indicted. Dajerria becton, the 15yearold girl seen being thrown to the ground by a mckinney police officer in a controversial incident says the officer.
At one point, casebolt pulls out his gun on two teenage boys who come to. He told me to keep walking, dajerria becton, 15, told fox 4. Protesters called for the officer to be fired as they marched through mckinney, texas. Dajerria becton, the 15yearold texas girl who was violently arrested by eric casebolt in an incident recorded on video, is speaking out about what happened. Mar 15, 2016 the good girl and bad girl dichotomy, as chronicled by monique w. On saturday, dajerria becton will celebrate the monetary victory and her graduation from high school with, appropriately enough, a pool party hosted by her attorney kim t. The statement said all claims against thenofficer eric casebolt and the city of mckinney will be dismissed. Black girl tackled by cop at texas pool party gets. A mckinney, texas police corporal is shown yelling at a group of teens, drawing a weapon, and pulling one girl to the ground. Texas teenager sues officer who threw her to the ground at party a frame grab from a video showing cpl.
Officer eric casebolt wrestled becton to the ground. Cell phone video shows her being forced to the ground by thenofficer eric casebolt, who kept her down by putting his knees in her back. Jan 05, 2017 dajerria becton claims casebolt used excessive force and that the police force wasnt properly trained. Teen sues thug cop who assaulted her, and the city of. Dajerria said she was enjoying the pool party when dozens of uninvited guests showed up. Join facebook to connect with dajerria becton and others you may know. Giphy is how you search, share, discover, and create gifs.
Parents call for firing of police officer after video shows. Jun 09, 2015 the video of officer casebolt pushing dajerria becton, 15, to the ground and pointing his firearm at other teens went viral. In cleveland, tanisha anderson, a schizophrenic and bipolar woman, was allegedly slammed to the ground in front of her family, before dying in police custody. The 2015 texas pool party incident, also known as the mckinney pool party, was a civil. Eric casebolt yank 15yearold bikiniclad dajerria becton onto her stomach and then kneel on her as he points his gun at other. We currently live in a time in which the public servants who are hired to protect and serve are not required to uphold the very law they are sworn to enforce. Protesters demand police officer be fired over pool party. Black teen violently slammed by cop and arrested at pool. In june 2015, when she was just 15, a cellphone video taken. Girl to sue over officer who tackled her at texas pool party. The video of her assault went viral, and the officer that attacked her has since resigned.
Jun 28, 2016 dajerria becton said she was enjoying the pool party when dozens of uninvited guests showed up. He later drew his handgun during the same incident. Teacher who almost wants to bring back segregation out. They were angry that the officer pulled a gun and pushed a teenage girl to the ground at a pool party on friday. Last week, a grand jury decided he would not be charged with a crime. Eric casebolt has been placed on administrative leave after a youtube video of a disturbance at a pool party friday in a north dallas suburb went viral, according to kdfw. Its video that has so many people talking around the nation. It also shows him briefly running after teenagers before being stopped by fellow police officers. Jun 27, 2016 frisco the attorney for dajerria becton, who was forced face down at a mckinney pool party last year, says she is moving forward on two lawsuits even though no charges were filed against mc. Texas cop who attacked black teen girl at pool party. Casebolt, who worked for the mckinney police department at the time, was caught on video roughly handling dajerria becton while responding to a disturbance at a community party. A video uploaded to youtube shows the cop, identified by fox 4 news as police corporal eric casebolt, slamming becton to the ground while grabbing her.
Given that this occurred in a facility owned by the hoa and it was a. Jun 21, 2018 black girl tackled by cop at texas pool party gets settlement from department and city dajerria becton, the black teenager tackled by a white cop in a viral 2015 video, has been awarded a settlement. In mckinney, texas, 15yearold dajerria becton was tackled to the ground, kneed in the neck, and handcuffed by a police officer while she was wearing a bikini. Oct 30, 2017 mckinney when the tv on wheels was rolled into the classroom back in the day, you know what that meant. Dajerria becton, the black teenager slammed to the ground during a 2015 pool party in mckinney, texas, has filed a federal lawsuit against the officer involved, the. The teenager, identified as dajerria becton, told fox4 dallas that her back was hurting bad from the encounter. Black texas teenager brutalized in 2015 finally gets her pool.
Texas teenager sues officer who threw her to the ground at. Buzzfeed asks women in bikinis to comment on police. Dajerria becton was wrestled to the ground by a police officer at the texas pool party last year and has spoken out. Mckinney police were sent to the craig ranch north subdivision to break up a pool party they claim was too rowdy. Settlement agreement reached in mckinney pool party lawsuit. On june 6, 2015, a video brookes, 2015 was widely circulated across the internet of officer eric casebolt, a white male police officer, assaulting a 15yearold black girl, dajerria becton. Black texas teenager brutalized in 2015 finally gets her. After the police brutality video goes viral the atlantic. Mckinney officer eric casebolt pinned down teenager dajerria becton on june 5, 2015, while responding to an unruly party at a private pool in the craig ranch neighborhood. But after watching the full sevenminute video of casebolts horrific treatment of dejerria becton, the headline on a powerful and important november 2014. In the video, police officer eric casebolt, easily 200 pounds, drags14 yearold dajerria becton, easily under 100 pounds, clothed in only a bikini, by her braids, digs his knee into her back, and.
At 15 years old, dajerria becton, who is black, was brutally apprehended by a white police officer at a pool party in 2015. And i kept walking and then im guessing he thought we were saying rude stuff to him. Hundreds march after guntoting white us cop filmed. Officer at texas pool party was upset after suicide calls. He was suspended after footage of the melee went viral.
The girl was in the video identified as dajerria becton. Dajerria becton, the teenage girl who was violently. Melania trumps jacket says she really doesnt care about. Texas teen says cop slammed her to ground, pulled her. Enter your zip code to find tv one in your area find tv one. The video was viewed more than 12 million times on youtube. Dallas ap in a story june 10 about fallout from the police response to a texas community pool party, the associated press misspelled the name of a 15yearold girl forced to the ground by an officer. Video day was always the best easiest day, but it was dajerria becton s worst nightmare. Jun 08, 2015 police in texas are investigating an officer after a video was posted on youtube that shows him detaining a teenage girl at a pool party on june 5. Girl pinned down at mckinney pool party sues excop, city. Eric casebolt used excessive force and held her without probable cause.
The victim in the video said she was an invited guest at the party and was not involved in the earlier fight between white parents and. While responding to 911 calls that reported the trespassing of dozens of individuals on private property, a mckinney police officer, corporal eric casebolt, was video recorded violently restraining dajerria becton, a fifteenyearold black girl wearing a swimsuit, on the. In the video, eric casebolt slammed then 15yearold dajerria becton to the ground and put his knee in her back while another officer put handcuffs on her. Jan 04, 2017 mckinney officer eric casebolt pinned down teenager dajerria becton on june 5, 2015, while responding to an unruly party at a private pool in the craig ranch neighborhood. Dajerria becton, who was 15 years old at the time, back in 2015, was last seen in a viral video getting wrestled to the ground by thenmckinney, texas, police officer eric casebolt. Jun 09, 2015 it comes from a smartphone video, like the one released showing mckinney, texas, police officer eric casebolt manhandling a 15yearold girl named dajerria becton, who is wearing only a bikini. Sandra bland and the invisible plight of black women in. The dallasarea police officer seen in a viral video throwing a bathing suitclad teenage girl to the ground has resigned, local media quoted his lawyer as saying.
Dajerria becton 15year old black female attended a pool party in mckinney, tx slammed to the. Jun 20, 2018 on saturday, dajerria becton will celebrate the monetary victory and her graduation from high school with, appropriately enough, a pool party hosted by her attorney kim t. Video of casebolt tackling becton went viral in 2015 creating a national uproar as viewers saw the white cop kneeling on the bikiniclad teen as her face was pressed into the grass. Fox 4 news caught up with dajerria becton, the 15yearold who was violently shoved to the ground by a police officer in a viral video that led to the cops suspension. Eric casebolt pins 15yearold dajerria becton to the floor outside a pool. In video of the friday incident that was uploaded to youtube, casebolt shouts and gestures at 15yearold dajerria becton, and grabs her head and. Dajerria becton was only wearing a bikini when mckinney police corporal eric casebolt pinned her to the ground on friday evening in a startling incident caught on camera. Here, the soulsinging superstar opens up about her upbringing in her moms salon, talks about her womanist awakening, and shares a tearful moment with our interviewer. Zsa zsa, an english bulldog, winning the ugliest dog contest. Dajerria becton on what happened in texas pool party video. While responding to 911 calls that reported the trespassing of dozens of individuals on private property, a mckinney police officer, corporal eric casebolt, was video recorded violently restraining dajerria becton, a fifteenyearold black girl wearing a swimsuit, on the ground.
Three years ago, then 15year old dajerria becton was violently arrested by a police officer at a pool party in mckinney, texas. Dajerria becton wins police brutality settlement, gets a pool party. Teen wins settlement after altercation with police at pool. Nov 27, 2012 autoplay when autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. Family of then 15yearold dajerria becton filed the suit in june 2015. A black teenage girl is suing the white police officer who pinned her down during a texas pool party in june 2015, after the incident was captured in a viral video dajerria becton, 16, filed the. Dajerria was only 15 when she was pinned down by a cop, face down in a bikini as police broke up a pool party in mckinney, texas. Jan 04, 2017 a black teenage girl is suing the white police officer who pinned her down during a texas pool party in june 2015, after the incident was captured in a viral video. In chicago, 22yearold rekia boyd was accidentally shot in the head by an. Jul 23, 2018 casebolt declined interview requests, as did shashona becton, the guardian of dajerria becton, the girl who was tackled by casebolt. Invisible no more is a timely examination of how black women, indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement.
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