I wish he'd come work here. Too many violent criminals here. Good hard cops like him who gladly fight these thugs are getting hard to find.
The way to fight violent criminals is not the way Casebolt goes about it. Because his type of cop provides them with the means by which to elicit sympathy in court. Consider the fact that none of the troublemakers at the pool have been arrested and charged because of Casebolt's erratically aggressive performance.
In simple terms it must be done right to avoid giving defense counsel anything to use as a wedge to prejudice a jury. Cops like Casebolt are too influenced by their own erratic impulses to think about how their actions could be used against them.
What we've seen right here in this thread is ample evidence of how it works. The troublemakers are ignored while attention is focused on the distraction afforded by one thoughtless cop.
In the Rodney King example, a low-life who richly deserved to have his ass kicked was lionized because a group of self-absorbed cops didn't have the good sense to wait until they got King indoors to pound him. They thought it was okay to do it right out in the open. And look what happened.
Perhaps Rodney King was a bad apple, and perhaps there were trespassers and/or not-nice people in McKinney. But on their own those are local-interest minor stories. This one became so much more not because of trespassing or bad neighbors, and not even because of race, but because of a police militaristic warrior-mentality obsession that had already reached epidemic proportions, throughout this country. That concern is not new; the transition from "protect and serve" to "conquer and vanquish" has been documented uncountable times since Rodney King and well before.
What stood out in McKinney was the degree of blatant abuse of power that as visually documented became so obviously over the top it could not be ignored, even by the military mentality itself. Casebolt's resignation and proxy apology, and the concession by the Chief of its being well over the line, lets us know there
is a point where enough is enough after all. The unsung heroes in McKinney are the 11 other officers there who act like, and treat the kids like, the human beings they are -- because that provides the stark contrast to Casebolt's insanity.
Rodney King... the trespassers... the other various victims on the receiving end of this military mentality whether themselves guilty of anything or not, should be in and of themselves obscure and insignificant tales. What's significant is the military presence, and have no doubt that's exactly what it is -- the authoritarian bootlickers here still valiantly holding on to their dream of fascism should consider this:
If the United States of America, your country, had been successfully invaded and taken over by an occupying power, that power's military occupation force would be acting
exactly as the militaristic Überpolizei are acting right now.
It can happen to literally anybody, for literally any reason or no reason at all. That's why I adopted the sigline "Je suis Dajeeria Becton" -- between the Oppressors and the Oppressed, I stand with the latter. Because there but for fortune fall you or I.
(with or without your racial inferiority complex)
