Please tell me what is different about McKinney? [BTW my sister lives in an adjoining community as if it makes a difference.]
Closet municipal policeman demonstrates he is a bigot. How? He immediately presumes that the young Black African-American teens are engaged in criminal activity and must forcibly interdict.
He openly treats Black African-American persons differently by forcibly detaining them [arresting], continued using police authoritarian [brutality] tactics and even threatening to use lethal force [with no perceived threat towards him except defiance to his authoritarianism], towards unarmed male Black African-Americans.
He openly expresses personal frustration and inconvenience over using his authoritarian tactics [30 lbs of equipment]and denigrating and personally insulting using profanity towards Black African-American teens while still ignoring white American teens engaged in the same behavior.
His police behavior is recorded on personal recording devices and is posted on social media creating a firestorm of public reaction.
Okay what is different the gun was not discharged against unarmed Black African-American where the police had to use the built in excuse that some perceived mythical behavior was considered a mortal threat towards him.
What is different is that his Police Chief said upon release and review of the recorded incident that his policeman's behavior was “indefensible”, pretty damning to the most.
What still is the same are the media opportunists who attempt to contort and distort the incident of an attack on our good policeman's work and the real culprits are the young Black African-Americans who caused the problem. Piling on are true prejudiced idiots making public statements expressing all forms of racial bigotry.
What is different was that the co-mingled young white Americans came to the defense of their fellow Black African-American friends contradicting the biased white adult Americans making false statements of fact (though what is their perception of Black America and Black African-Americans) and also providing the recordings where the officers ignored the white amateur photo journalist while threatening and impeding Black African Americans doing the same thing.
What is different was much of White America's reaction, why? Because most of White America are now coming to realize that they are in the same boat as their Black African-American fellow citizens, that especially the Millennial Generation racial bias and divide is the exception and not the rule and that White America is coming to realize that they could and possibly will be treated the same.
What is the problem is that we have a class and multiple generation profile of most municipal police officers are Warriors in the bull$#!^ domestic War on Crime and not Guardians of our communities. What is different is we have passed a tipping point and that those who are closeted bigoted Warrior cops will continue to be exposed and some rooted out. It will take a long time.
I ran into a former SRO (School Resource Officer) two days back, not sure why he is former, think retired, but anyway we broached the McKinney incident and he said [paraphrased] that the officer was embarrassing to watch, and said until he pulled his weapon no other subordinate officers were responding to him. And it was evident that his perception was biased, it will be interesting to hear the 911 call and who and what was said.
Indefensible