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Hundreds gather in nothern Texas to protest white policeman's brutality

Xinhua, June 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

Hundreds of people in a northern city of Texas took to streets on Monday to protest against white police's brutality, local media reported.

The demonstration occurred in McKinney, after a video showed, the 41-year-old white police officer David Eric Casebolt pushed a young black girl in a bikini to ground outside a pool and pointed his gun on other unarmed young black teens on Friday, according to local ABC13 TV reports.

Protesters called for an end to white police's brutality on blacks, saying that Casebolt should be fired because of the profanities he used and the fact that he brandished his gun.

The demonstrators marched peacefully from the Comstock Elementary School to the Craig Ranch North Community Pool where the incident occurred. Some protesters were holding signs reading, "My skin color is not a crime", "Don't tread on me or my kids" and "Stop Police Brutality."

Local police officials denied in a statement that the incident was racially motivated, saying that the officers, including Casebolt, just responded to a call about a "disturbance involving multiple juveniles at the location."

The police have started a formal investigation, and Casebolt has been placed on administrative leave.

Mayor of McKinney Brian Loughmiller has expressed his concern over the incident, saying that he was disturbed and concerned by the actions depicted in the video and the police officers need to act with appropriate restraint relative to the situation they are faced with.

Ronald Wright, a community leader from the Justice Seekers Texas, said that "we're going to ask for justice to be done, and this is ridiculous that we continue to fight these type of issues throughout this country." Endi