Having a pool in your community that is only for the use of residents and guests? – “That’s raycis-s-s-s-s-!” according to Emily Badger at the Denver Post.
We don’t know what precisely happened Saturday before and after the moments captured on video. But for these black teens, the issue may not have been so much — or solely — their behavior, as their presence at a pool where residents who called the police suspected they did not belong.
The incident exposes the unspoken logic of gated resources: They are meant to give residents control over who’s in the community that can use communal goods. Private community swimming pools do a good job at this (in this McKinney community, residents are allotted a few guest passes a piece). Really private pools — in the fenced back yards of individual homes — achieve this even more effectively.
So having your own fenced backyard is racist. By extension, having your own car instead of sharing public transportation is racist.
The actual consequence of a policy that all privately owned pools should be open to the public would not be more pools, but actually, no pools. (Except for the very, very rich).
But presumably the left would like that. You know, equality and all that.
As for the Texas pool party incident — it seems to be not quite the innocent black teens lawfully enjoying a pool party without bothering anyone until the Ray-ciss-s-s-s-s-s police showed up narrative the MFM has been promoting. This is why I don’t get outraged about these things, but always wait a day or two for ‘The Rest of the Story.’
Whites need to start refusing this concept any credibility at all. Every time a White either denies their “racism” or accuses some Black nationalist of being “racist,” we just keep inscribing the whole fraudulent idea more deeply in our diseased brains and souls.
“Racism” means two things: Your White ideas, attitudes or actions in relation to non-Whites (Blacks above all) are: A. Incorrect and B. Immoral. The awful truth is that, when you do your research and give up trying to be “a decent person”, you will find that most of what is banned as “racist” is A. Correct and B. Rational.
“Racism” is a concept that can ONLY be used against Whites. It serves the interest of every other racial group. Never us. Never.
“Racism” is the exact modern equivalent of the pre-modern idea of “Witchcraft”: something everybody believed in, but which did not exist except as a way of attacking people with scary ideas, attitudes or behaviors.
(Same thing, by the way, with “anti-Semitism”, “homophobia”, “Islamophobia,” “sexism,” “privilege,” and the whole sick panoply of CrimeThink.) There are only correct and incorrect ideas, rational and irrational attitudes and actions, which you either like or don’t like. The false pathologies (and crimes) of “racism,” etc. do not exist except as a parasitical mind-virus designed to take you down…or better, to have you take yourself down and congratulate yourself for doing it.
Here endeth the lesson.
Its amazing to me that conservatives rail against the gov taking away the rights of citizens are not howling about this. I don’t care what the back story is, that cop was acting insane compared to his colleagues and everyone who is truly for a more limited gov should be demanding he is fired.
But you are not. Once again, “conservatives” show they don’t really care about he constitutional rights of all citizens.
FYI
This is the same neighborhood that defaced an Obama sign with racist and homophobic slurs.
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2012/09/mckinney-police-investigating-obama-yard-sign-defaced-with-racial-slurs.html/
Let’s follow this a bit: the mob (media, SJWs, Democrats, blacks, guilty-white lefties) will eventually deliver the message to cops (white cops, black cops, Mexican cops, women cops, man cops, gay cops, Muslim cops) that any interaction with a black person has career-detonating potential (if not worse).
Once the coppers decide that they are NOT duty-bound to commit career suicide and that they are not duty-bound to deliver themselves to mob justice, it will be a free-for-all (as we’re seeing in Baltimore and other places).
Of course, a lot of black people who are not thugs and criminals (e.g. four-years old and taking a nap) will be killed. And for what? To make a-holes like John Stewart feel better about themselves. What a trade off.
I know it doesn’t matter what I think but I detest people like John Stewart. That POS would wet his pants if he had to wade into a mob of misbehaving “teens”. And the “teens” would wipe his insipid smirk of that face post-haste.
So, being a conservative obligates one to buy into phony media narratives. Thank you for lecturing us on what it means to be conservative, mike.
Mike, as someone between conservative and libertarian, I think the police officer in question and the incident should be investigated with the goal of finding out the truth. Then appropriate action can be taken. Applying the Queen of Hearts’ “sentence first, verdict afterwards” method produces lousy results.
Wikipedia gets this right:
There is a reason local governments have ordinances requiring swimming pools in back yards to be fenced so that the errant toddler can’t wander in and drown.
Obviously, teens, of their own free will can climb fences and invade pools. That does not mean that the pool owner is free from being sued.
Membership pools carry very expensive insurance policies and have limited liability legal structures built into their organizing documents so that the members are not personally liable for some law suit award in a civil case.
This whole social justice crap is precisely why we have become a nation of over-lawyered litigious people who see court as way to hitting the lottery.
Teens have a totally different concept of “party” that does not involve guest lists, cake and ice cream. In fact, it generally means a wide open romp until crashed by the cops.
This “incident” in McKinney may have been planned for the neighborhood kids and their guests as an innocent end of school party, but then the horde arrived and redefined the event. They pulled THE ATTRACTIVE NUISANCE DOCTRINE loose thread and now we are stupidly being suckered into discussing social justice, equality and all sorts of Progressive, nanny state imperatives. That is the bull squat world the Progressives see as grazing grounds for their unicorns.
If the cop was told that (five) black twitchy-butts in bikinis were loud and obnoxious, the profile die was cast.
Progressives seem to favor being thick-headed and obstinate over being solution oriented. Everything is about shifting the argument and reassigning blame.
Holy cow, for realz?
In other astounding exposés, “the unspoken logic” of beer-coasters is that they are meant to protect wooden tabletops from moisture, and “the unspoken logic” of the lint-traps on dryers is that they are meant to trap lint.
“If the cop was told that (five) black twitchy-butts in bikinis were loud and obnoxious, the profile die was cast.”
Yet the cop should not have violated the rights of the citizen with violence when no threat was present. The other cops were calm measured and professional. That cop was a flying spaz and has no business being a cop.
This video is what it an American statist police state looks like. Yet you all seem to applaud. Why?
I don’t don’t think anyone is “applauding” the police action. Mike, you are the one who is reacting to the progressive “dog whistle” of racism charges. If the unruly (and trespassing) teens were white and treated in the same manner by the police, would you still be accusing the police of “statist” action? Who is the racist here? Btw, WTH is “statist police action”?
“Whites need to start refusing this concept [racism]…”
I like to go on the all-out attack, questioning the accuser’s knowledge, intelligence, wisdom and honesty. Call him a liar. Call him a fascist. Call him a friend of thugs and lowlifes.
“Yet the cop should not have violated the rights of the citizen with violence when no threat was present.”
Are you not aware that there was already mob violence, even before the cops arrived?
Are you not aware that kids refused to disperse?
Are you not aware that some of the kids made threatening moves toward the cops?
So, Mike, you claim that “the neighborhood” defaced an Obama sign. That’s funny, I thought it was individual people who committed crimes. How curious that you twist the story (if it is even true) into a blanket condemnation of an entire neighborhood.
Also, Mike: If you are going to make racist accusations against that neighborhood, you should first note that black residents supported the cops and said that the teen mob was out of control and strong measures needed to be taken.
mike (lowercase mike) – I think commenter Steve linked an article I’ve looked at. There are frame grabs from a video showing a “teen” circling behind the cop while he’s occupied with the resisting “teen”. The guy circling assumes an aggressive stance like he may be preparing to draw a weapon. At that point the horrible, racist cop, spying the potential threat out of the corner of his eye, draws his gun and other officers run over and secure the area. The threat neutralized, the horrible and racist cop reholsters his gun. If that’s an accurate description of events, the cop was absolutely within his rights and procedure to draw his weapon.
Now you might think that’s not what happened because neither you or I are so f-ing stupid as to make threatening moves towards a cop engaged in a high-risk encounter — no one would be so dumb as to attack a cop with other cops on the scene… but then no one would be so dumb as to rob a store, prance down the middle of the street and then attack an armed cop whose attention he attracted…. people aren’t that stupid, are they?
That would be almost as dumb as staging a biker rumble at a location where police (with SWAT) are deployed to make sure the rumble didn’t happen.
Or as dumb as shooting a lady because her kid giggled at the site of your foot hanging out of the window of a car — IN FRONT OF A UNIFORMED COP IN A MARKED POLICE CAR. People aren’t that dumb. (Yes, that happened in CA – can’t remember the town right now).
“But for these black teens, the issue may not have been so much — or solely — their behavior, as their presence at a pool where residents who called the police suspected they did not belong.”
That was particularly slimy example of liberal journalism:
We already have witnesses saying that they knew these were outsiders: They didn’t recognize the kids, there were far too many kids to have come from that neighborhood, and the kids were out of control.
May the writer soon “enjoy” her very own up-close-and-personal encounters with such “misunderstood” youths.
These instant accusations of racism! racism! get more than tiresome.
They are almost always shown to be utter b*llsh*t.
One of my “favorites” was the case in Milwaukee of a janitor who, while changing the lock on an apartment whose residents had been evicted, was set upon with baseball bats. He was carrying a revolver, drew, and shot at least two of the three attackers dead. The usual suspects screamed “racism!” because the janitor was white and his attackers were black. Good riddance to worthless trash, say I. And those who were angry that the punks were killed are also trash of another kind.
“While controlling a non-compliant suspect Casebolt was charged by two males, at which point he drew his service pistol.”
http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/06/mckinney-officer-in-brawl-video-resigns/
http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/06/video-analysis-mckinney-brawl-another-rush-to-misjudgment/
lie #1 of the democrat party-media complex. the teens were at a pool party. they weren’t at a pool party they were at a barbecue in another area of the development. lie #2 they were denied access to the pool by the white racist honkie oppressors because they were black. wrong, the pool was closed for a private party for a group of three and four years old. the innocent teens were forcing their way into the pool area which cause the confrontation. fights broke out, the police were called and the situation grew. the video you see in the complex is very selective. the girl that was force down by the police officer told the media she was just trying to leave the area but if you look at longer versions of the video you will see her and other girls being told to just leave several times by the police officer. the innocent young lady kept coming back to interfere with the officers attempts to gain control of the situation. unfortunately it looks like another police officer has been wolf blitzered by the democrat party-media complex.
Yet you all seem to applaud.
[Citation needed.]
Mikey the cop was surrounded and 2 blacks circled around to sucker punch him(edited out by CNN). 100+ blacks invaded this HOA that its own members could only have a limit of 20 at a pool party if they gave $200+ security deposit. This link even has a black homeowner interviewed that says the security guards got attacked before they called the cops. Also shows flyers for the pool party that was not authorized. This is the same site that busted the lies in Skittles & Ferguson. http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/06/09/the-facts-behind-the-mckinney-pool-fiasco-part-ii/
Little liar boy mike:
Go f*ck yourself.
You will never hold a black person responsible for their behavior. Ever.
You will always demand a white person be punished regardless of theirs.
You are a goddamned racist.
Furthermore, as a goddamned racist, you have no right to criticize decent people like us. At. All.
Everything you say is to race-bait. Everything you say is a lie designed to control and manipulate others. You have no intention of applying any sort of objective standard or following it. You are simply trying to force others to do what you want with slander and threats that you will call them a racist if you don’t.
Get out and take your bigotry, your racist hatred, and your lies with you. This is a place for grownups, and you are nothing but childish filth.
Let’s posit for a second that the cop’s behavior was out of line:
1. The MFM’s narrative was still false and misleading.
2. The actions of a single cop out of the dozens that were present does not support the leftists’ narrative that cops kill black people (and only black people) with impunity.
3. It doesn’t excuse the illegal behavior on the part of the thugs at the party.
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Same, little liar boy CrayCray.
Go f*ck yourself.
You will never hold a iberal person responsible for their behavior.
You will always demand a conservative or Christian be punished regardless of theirs.
You are a goddamned racist and bigot.
Furthermore, as a goddamned racist and bigot, you have no right to criticize decent people like us. At. All.
Everything you say is to race-bait. Everything you say is a lie designed to control and manipulate others. You have no intention of applying any sort of objective standard or following it. You are simply trying to force others to do what you want with slander and threats that you will call them a racist if you don’t.
Get out and take your bigotry, your hatred, and your lies with you. This is a place for grownups, and you are nothing but childish filth.
You’re full of hot air and don’t know the first thing about me.