Short Thoughts on McKinney

Do I believe white privilege exists? Yes. Do I think the incident in McKinney had anything to do with race? No. We cannot turn every encounter between a white authoritative man and a black person about race. That does not help anybody. It only makes things worse. This was a pool party gone bad and nothing more. Teenage parties getting out of control have been happening since teenagers started throwing parties. The difference is that now we live in a nation where kids aren't getting disciplined and aren't expected to respect authority. And if you're a colored person these days, you're a straight up martyr if you're expected to respect a white person with authority. I'm not saying that the police officer didn't take it too far but I'm not saying he did either. I wasn't there so I don't know what happened during the HOURS that weren't recorded on that 5 minute video. And I find it hard to side with the nation full of people who weren't actually there when everything I have read from the residents that WERE there says that the officer was just doing everything he could to keep the large crowd under control and the residents safe. And where is the accountability for those kids that were so out of control? I mean the police were called FOR A REASON weren't they? I absolutely believe that those teens should also be held accountable for their wrongdoings as well. Instead, they are now a part of the martyr club and that's just ridiculous. All of that said, I also don't think that this story should have ever left the local boundaries of the DFW area. It should have been handled locally between the McKinney PD and the residents of the neighborhood that it happened in. Now we have a bunch of opinions from an entire nation full of "experts" who have no idea what the whole story is and don't even care what the whole story is. We have another group of kids that now feel entitled to their shenanigan behavior and a police officer who from what I can tell, doesn't have any kind of history of overstepping his bounds until this incident but now no longer has a job. Nobody wins here. Nobody.