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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho called the cops on the black pool party-goers? A violent felon with a long record.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/10/texas-pool-party-911-caller-convicted-felonThe man who called 911 to complain about a group of black teenagers at a pool party in Texas, and defended the controversial police response as a good amount of aggression, is a convicted felon who spent time in jail for violent behaviour and torturing animals.
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Sean Toon was sentenced to more than nine months in jail after pleading guilty to killing and maiming prize farm animals and covering them in paint, according to court records in Texas. He was separately sentenced to two and a half months for an assault.
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In November 1999, aged 18, Toon and three high school friends were arrested and expelled from school after vandalising the agricultural centre of a rival high school district and attacking animals housed there, many of which were owned and cared for by school children.
Cows and pigs were cut and bruised, apparently beaten with wooden boards. And baby turkeys were slain, their limbs torn apart, the Dallas Morning News reported at the time. Dale Gardner, a teacher in the school districts agriscience and technology program, told the newspaper: It was brutal. Theres no way to describe it. Ive never seen anything like it.
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In September 2000, Toon was charged in nearby Denton County with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to court records. After pleading guilty to an unspecified lesser charge, Toon was sentenced to 75 days in jail.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Big brave guy assaulting defenseless animals. Should still be in the slammer iMO.
stage left
(3,306 posts)But then I wouldn't want to insult them by the comparison.
BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)What a sadist.
randys1
(16,286 posts)another teenager, was acting like he would take care of the bothersome colored folk till the cop got back
The way he did that made me want to punch him very hard
I am sure he doesnt use the word colored, probably he N word
phil89
(1,043 posts)You have no evidence of any of those things.
uppityperson
(116,020 posts)share your feelings about that now?
cheapdate
(3,811 posts)Eg:
Bro1 : Did you see Sandy? She looked upset.
Bro2 : You don't have any evidence for that!
JanMichael
(25,725 posts)Fairgo
(1,571 posts)It is sometimes mistaken for rejoinder.
pnwmom
(110,261 posts)Last edited Fri Jun 12, 2015, 02:56 AM - Edit history (1)
And hearts.
Response to pnwmom (Original post)
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uppityperson
(116,020 posts)"Megyn Kelly on McKinney teen: 'The girl was no saint either'"
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/fox-news-megyn-kelly-15-year-old-mckinney-girl-attacked-by-cop-was-no-saint-either/
The girl was no saint, either, Kelly said of Dajerria Becton. He had told her to leave, and she continued to linger. When a cop tells you to leave, get out.
Kelly did not mention that, according to Becton, she was in the process of complying with Casebolts order when he violently took her down after being called to the scene of a pool party.
He told me to keep walking, and we were walking and I guess he thought we were saying rude stuff to him, Becton told KDFW-TV.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)uppityperson
(116,020 posts)pull his gun on friends protesting?
DURHAM D
(33,054 posts)Response to DURHAM D (Reply #7)
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DURHAM D
(33,054 posts)Sad??? Typical??
You feel sorry for the guy?
uppityperson
(116,020 posts)The girl was no saint, either, Kelly said of Dajerria Becton. He had told her to leave, and she continued to linger. When a cop tells you to leave, get out.
Kelly did not mention that, according to Becton, she was in the process of complying with Casebolts order when he violently took her down after being called to the scene of a pool party.
He told me to keep walking, and we were walking and I guess he thought we were saying rude stuff to him, Becton told KDFW-TV.
pnwmom
(110,261 posts)uppityperson
(116,020 posts)paleotn
(22,218 posts)pnwmom
(110,261 posts)his judgment regarding the behavior of the teens at the party.
He said that he was afraid for his 7 year old daughter's sake, and that the cop acted appropriately.
Well, we know that the cop didn't act appropriately -- even if we didn't trust our own eyes and ears-- because the police chief clearly said so. That's why the cop was forced to resign.
And I haven't seen a bit of evidence that any 7 year old was in danger.
paleotn
(22,218 posts)newthinking
(3,982 posts)One thing that has been bothering me about this site is people seem to just want to pick on others and our "cultural trait" of picking and making fun of others for the fun of it, seems to have arrived.
That seems to be not only getting off the purpose of a board like this, but picking on people and dividing them is the Republican strategy.
This is not meant to call out those who are getting on the band wagon of blaming the caller. But to bring awareness of how we ourselves are kind of getting caught up in that which we don't like about the other party?
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)I can think of several incidents where black people have been harassed and even killed because a white 911 caller had some sort of panic attack and made shit up about something a black person was doing.
newthinking
(3,982 posts)who's racism/paranoia got someone killed.
Totally agree. But I do think we tend to get caught up in what I call "tabloid journalism". These days it pays to emotionalize stories. And often they will leave out facts to make it look worse.
There is no exaggeration is what in happening with racist based police brutality though. And it is amazing how the system keeps ignoring what is a huge issue.
hamsterjill
(17,577 posts)The caller called the police. He did not take things into his own hands, at least.
He may be the scum of the earth, I don't know. But you are absolutely correct in that this situation is a police problem, and with the degree of force by the police officer that is evident on the video, it is appropriately being investigated.
I also agree with your comments about division here. It saddens me that there's such an attempt at this at times.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Who implied that?
Or (and I find this more likely) no one did, and you're merely arguing against a premise that doesn't exist to illustrate how clever you believe yourself to be...
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(13,291 posts)
Jaws from the James Bond films
We should not be judging a man by his looks -- but it's so much fun!
DURHAM D
(33,054 posts)the police officer what to do?
uppityperson
(116,020 posts)DURHAM D
(33,054 posts)so seems about right.
uppityperson
(116,020 posts)This first is Toon, the one who the OP is about, the day after the incident.
The link has good stuff there also.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/twitter-heaps-mockery-on-white-mckinney-man-who-called-cops-on-black-kids-with-seantoon911/

This is LargeMan. Different man

pnwmom
(110,261 posts)uppityperson
(116,020 posts)DURHAM D
(33,054 posts)figure it out. That slob is disgusting. Hope the young woman brings charges against him for inappropriate sexual contact.
and thanks for the link to Toon
uppityperson
(116,020 posts)lip curl. Get the hell away from her. ICK
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)You know, the hard on he got from the white police on black girl "action"!
JanMichael
(25,725 posts)Probably was getting off on seeing very young teens in bikinis too. This was likely a high point in his life.
I think I am going to puke.
erronis
(23,880 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)uppityperson
(116,020 posts)BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)kairos12
(13,590 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)What a sicko!
benld74
(10,285 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Rabid racists are often violent in addition to being racists. I have known enough of them in my lifetime and I am very glad I don't know them anymore.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Doesn't surprise me that such an upstanding citizen started this mess, though.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)
polly7
(20,582 posts)Just reading what he did makes me ill, he should be in jail for decades.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Hulk
(6,699 posts)...and never mind the numbers in front of his face, it really doesn't mean anything"
Welcome, sir...to fair and balanced.
CanonRay
(16,171 posts)He's break all the records. I guess calling him a Neanderthal is dissing Neanderthals.
Beartracks
(14,591 posts)... in these race-related stories, I'm sure they'll be all over this.
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Tipperary
(6,930 posts)I wish I did not even know about this now.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)I think psychologists have noted that tendency in the profiles of eventual serial killers. I wouldn't want to see this guy's face outside my bedroom window at night.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Paladin
(32,354 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)a white psychopath/sociopath calling the police on POC is no surprise. But he'll get the pass by some here and the general 'privileged' citizen at large because he's of that 'privileged class. Crazy or not he's covered and coveted by many as a 'hero' of the white supremacist movement in amerikkka. I would be willing to bet, many who call police on kids and people like the Tamir Rice execution and John Crawford execution are just like this ass.