I don't have much time to blog the details about the case in McKinney, Texas, where police officer Eric Casebolt was being over-belligerent towards a group of African-American teens. He tackled an African-American girl who was questioning him and then pulled a gun at a group of African-American teens standing up for her! The other 2 officers had to restrain him!
Here are my facebook comments on the issue!
For full disclosure, yes I did restrain a few students, either those who acting violently or those putting themselves in danger (ie. little kids running off). That is totally different from tackling a student questioning your tactics!
And here's the first online meme I made (courtesy of the screenshot app called Jing)
Not an exaggeration at all. Learn more at http://www.salon.com/2015/06/09/a_tale_of_two_teens_megyn_kelly_josh_duggar_and_fox_news_double_standard_for_black_youth/
: Kelly recently defended his former employer, the Family Research Council — which has been classified as a hate group — for having “strong Christian values,” and she has been particularly sympathetic to the violation of privacy inherent in the release of police reports involving minors, underscoring that Josh was 14 when he first molested his sisters.
“This is a story about a family in trouble, and they went through something terrible, and now are going through something terrible again,” Kelly said on her show last week. In her interview with the family, she also alluded to “the terrible choice these parents faced” in having to (maybe wait a year or so to) turn their son in. Her stance is pretty clear, and it echoes that of other Duggar defenders: Josh Duggar was a boy who did something bad, but his family has forgiven him and he was never charged, so maybe it will all be okay.
But that’s not quite the approach Kelly has taken to an incident of police brutality in McKinney, Texas over the weekend, of which video footage began circulating promptly. The clips show a white police officer, Corporal Eric Casebolt, pinning down 14-year-old African-American girl Dajerria Becton — who Kelly characterized as being “no saint either” on “The Kelly File” on Monday.
Calling Becton out for having “continued to linger” after police arrived on the scene in McKinney, Kelly explained that she didn’t mean to defend Casebolt’s actions — but she did insinuate that a 14-year-old failing to comply with instructions (such shocking behavior for a kid Becton’s age, really) could be culpable for a cop pulling out his gun. The host’s treatment of Becton not only smells like victim blaming, but also seems rather curious in the context of her compassion for the Duggars. A 14-year-old white boy who molested his younger sisters as well as a family friend gets a free pass, but a 14-year-old black girl who got kneed in the back by a cop is “no saint”?
