Protests are heating up in McKinney, Texas after video surfaced showing a white officer slamming a black teenage girl to the ground and pulling his gun on other teenagers after responding to a disturbance at a community pool. The officer has been placed on administrative leave, but protesters are doing their thing:

There are now reports that members of Nation of Islam and the New Black Panther Party are in town:

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