The McKinney Incident: A Different Account of the Incident
[font color=330099]Dear fellow Texan DUers:
I have not posted about the pool party incident in McKinney because the forum host duties have required serious attention and because I was waiting for more information from both sides regarding what occurred. While there are assertions of white privilege occurring there also appears to be other information about what occurred prior to the recording of the video. It is not my intention to inflame racial tensions and I certainly recognize that white privilege is not only a notion, but as a white male I can say that it is prevalent as well.
I'm posting this because there are always two sides to every story, not to dispute that the police officer in McKinney should not have drawn his weapon or that a young woman was physically assaulted. I have no way to check the veracity of the statements, only to provide the perspective on the other side of the story from a resident of that neighborhood that was not captured on video. Please evaluate it and consider the information accordingly, but if this thread begins to be get disruptive, turn nasty or accusations are unreasonable then please contact me by PM and I will consider self-deleting this entire OP. This information was extracted from a reply on the Turning Texas Back2Blue Facebook page from the post of a man named Michael Quattrin.
https://www.facebook.com/MCQuattrin/posts/10153334459553361?hc_location=ufi
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Facebook friends and family – PLEASE HELP! That (now viral) video of the officer in McKinney subduing a girl in a bathing suit was in OUR neighborhood. The situation was NOT what is being reported…
A DJ setup in a public space next to the private pool in our neighborhood on Friday and played loud explicit (F-bomb) music for multiple hours (it is unclear if he was invited by a resident as no one has claimed responsibility). The teenagers (both black and white) were being brought into our neighborhood by the carload because the DJ was tweeting out invites to a “pool party” for $15 (obviously unauthorized by our neighborhood). The teens began fighting with each other and pushing their way into our private pool. Some were jumping our fence. The security guard was accosted when he tried to stop the beginnings of this mob scene. Some residents who live around the park/pool area tried to come out and settle things down. The teens started yelling racial slurs at our neighbors and started assaulting people and property (throwing bottles at cars and attacking a mother at the pool with 3 young children). The first officer on the scene was by himself. At that time, the party had grown to a large, aggressive crowd. As the officer arrived, many teens started running through our neighborhood. Many of the teens were being very aggressive and yelling at the officers as more arrived.
This was a very dangerous situation for the officers AND the teens/residents not involved. The news media has refused to hear the neighborhood’s side of this story. The video being distributed is only a very small segment of what happened. This information being distributed by the media and others is extremely distorted and in some cases outright lies.
PLEASE HELP US STOP THE BROADCASTING OF THIS IGNORANCE. The media is trying to make it look like our neighborhood is a white’s only, racist area. Anyone who has spent even a few minutes in our area knows this is an outright LIE.
The unfortunate result is that our neighbors are now being threatened. We have also had cars and property in and around the park area vandalized this weekend. Unfortunately, the press and social media are trying to enflame the situation.
I am asking for your help for my family and my neighbor’s safety…PLEASE, PLEASE do not rebroadcast any of these lies.
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