Pool party cop made black driver drop pants in ’07 traffic stop: lawsuit
The McKinney, Texas, police officer who is seen aggressively shoving and pinning down a teenage girl at a pool-party disturbance caught on video was named in a 2008 lawsuit by a black motorist who accused him of racial profiling, excessive force and falsifying information, federal court records show.
David Eric Casebolt, a veteran with the McKinney Police Department, was among at least three officers involved in a traffic incident in April 2007 that allegedly escalated to a “visual body cavity search.” The confrontation culminated in the arrest and drug conviction of a motorist named Albert Earl Brown Jr., who claimed in court papers that he was set up.
According to Brown’s lawsuit, Casebolt allegedly approached his parked vehicle, made comments about his clothes and the white female passengers he was with, and pulled down Brown’s pants to conduct a forcible search while another officer, Lee Keith, grabbed his head and slammed his face into the hood of the car with “intent to cause bodily harm.”
Initial press reports about the pool-party video identified Casebolt as “Eric,” but documents show Eric is his middle name.
While incarcerated in the Collin County Detention Facility, Brown filed a civil-rights lawsuit against Casebolt and the other officers, accusing them of charging him with a “fake charge” in an effort to cover up their behavior.
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