'I was one of the only white people in the area when that was happening,' Brooks told CW33 NewsFix. For comment, we turn to Brandon Brooks, the 15-year-old boy who attended the pool party and shot the video viewed round the world. What happened next was caught on video: 41-year-old McKinney police officer Eric Casebolt-one of a dozen cops dispatched to the scene-is confronted by a 14-year-old girl in a bikini, who Casebolt grabs by the hair and throws to the ground, kneeling on her back and drawing his gun on kids who rush to help her. The scene: a community pool in McKinney, where last Friday evening a resident called police to report the group of kids who were allegedly using the pool without permission. MONDAY, JUNE 8 This week of diabolical doctors, self-spoofing homophobes, and surreal twists in America's ongoing problems with race kicked off in the North Texas town of McKinney, where a seven-minute cell-phone video instigated a national backlash that devoured the first half of the week.
