White McKinney resident: Cop ‘deserves a medal’ for pulling gun on black kids at pool party

DAVID EDWARDS/Raw Story

A Texas woman said on Monday that a McKinney police officer “deserves a medal” after he pulled his firearm on black teens who were having a pool party in her neighborhood.

In video that was recorded on Friday, Cpl. Eric Casebolt could be seen manhandling a young teen girl in a bathing suit and pulling his gun on other teens who approach him. Casebolt was placed on administrative leave over the weekend after the video went viral.

While many said that the the officer went overboard in responding to complaints about the pool party, at least one white resident of the neighborhood, who refused to be named because of alleged death threats, told CNN that the officer was a hero.

“I want everyone to know that that police officer, along with everyone else, they were completely in the right and protecting everyone,” the woman opined to CNN’s Nick Valencia. “He was not out of line. I completely support him drawing his weapon or a Taser or whatever it was that he did pull because he was being attacked from behind.”

“I believe that if your life is threatened, you have every right to pull a gun. He probably didn’t intend on using it. I feel horrible for McKinney PD and and the backlash they’re getting for this.”

The woman added that the officer “deserves a medal for what he did.”

“I don’t believe he was out of line one bit,” she insisted. “Those kids were taunting them and cursing them out, have no respect for authority and as soon as their parents got here, they didn’t even care one bit about how they were treating the officers and why they got into that situation.”

Watch the video below from CNN, broadcast June 8, 2015.

Angry Papa John’s customer posts delivery man’s racist voicemail online

By Arturo Garcia/Raw Story

Two Papa John’s Pizza employees in Sanford, Florida were fired after an irate customer posted a racist voicemail the delivery man accidentally left after “butt-dialing” the customer on Sunday night.

The Daily Dot reported on Monday that the manager of the store confirmed the customer’s video is authentic, adding that the store had received more than 300 angry calls in response.

In the video, the unidentified customer states off-camera that he tipped the driver 21 percent before showing the phone logs confirming that the driver called again and let loose with a string of racial slurs, not knowing he was being recorded.

“That’s the only requirement for being a nigger in Sanford,” the driver tells a co-worker, while complaining about the tip. “Yeah, they gave me five bucks there. Fine, outstanding African-American gentleman of the community.”

The driver then sings versions of both the overture from the opera The Wedding of Figaroand the theme song to the television show SWATlaced with the slur, before accusing the customer of being “so black, fireflies follow him around in the daytime.”

“As an African-American in this community and also someone who has always tipped their Delivery Drivers 21 percent, I am disgusted entirely by this conversation,” the customer wrote in his submission of the video to World Star Hip Hop.“Instead of focusing on ‘better ingredients’ and ‘better pizza,’ they should prioritize ‘better integrity’ and ‘better people’ on the top of their ‘to-do list.’”

According to the Dot, the video has been seen more than 271,000 times since being posted. Papa John’s was also embarrassed online in January 2012 after a customer in a New York City storeposted a receipt identifying her as “lady chinky eyes.”

Listen to the call on video posted by World Star Hip Hop on Sunday below.