Cop Suspended After Video Emerges Of Brutal Arrests At Teen Pool Party

A Texas police officer has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation after video surfaced showing one cop pulling a gun on a crowd of teens at a pool party while others handcuffed teenage partygoers. Police on Friday evening were called to the Craig Ranch North Community Pool in McKinney, roughly 40 miles north of Dallas. McKinney police said in a statement they were responding to a disturbance “involving multiple juveniles at the location, who do not live in the area or have permission to be there, refusing to leave,” and that some of them were fighting. A roughly 7-minute clip…

A Texas police officer has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation after video surfaced showing one cop pulling a gun on a crowd of teens at a pool party while others handcuffed teenage partygoers.

Police on Friday evening were called to the Craig Ranch North Community Pool in McKinney, roughly 40 miles north of Dallas. McKinney police said in a statement they were responding to a disturbance “involving multiple juveniles at the location, who do not live in the area or have permission to be there, refusing to leave,” and that some of them were fighting.

A roughly 7-minute clip of the incident was published on YouTube Saturday and shows officers running after teens, with one aggressively handcuffing a black male teen while pinning a black girl to the ground by her head as she cried for her mother.

When several people run to the girl’s aid, the officer is seen drawing his weapon.

“There was a fight, the cops showed up and started putting people on the ground for no reason,” Brandon Brooks, who shot the video, told The Huffington Post in a message.

In the video, some partygoers are seen sitting in the grass and pleading “sir, we just came here for a birthday party, please.” Another officer is heard thanking a group of teens for returning a flashlight the officer dropped.

Teens at the pool party told BuzzFeed News the police were called after a fight broke out between adults and teens at the pool. The teens said some adults made racist comments and told the teens to return to “Section 8 [public] housing.”

Brooks told BuzzFeed News several of the students were at the pool on guest passes for an end-of-school-year party.

“I think a bunch of white parents were angry that a bunch of black kids who don’t live in the neighborhood were in the pool,” Brooks said.

On Sunday, the department issued a statement saying the video “raised concerns” and that an officer has been suspended:

Neither the McKinney Police Department nor management at the Craig Ranch Community Association immediately responded to requests for comment. This story will be updated if HuffPost receives a response.

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Cop Suspended After Video Emerges Of Brutal Arrests At Teen Pool Party