As we’ve reported, a white police officer in McKinney, Texas has been placed on “administrative leave” after a video surfaced of an incident at a community pool showing him slamming a 14-year-old black girl to the ground and pointing his gun at other teenagers.
Some witnesses are saying that the police reaction did not appear to be racially motivated:
Teens who attended #McKinneyPoolParty say actions of Police unwarranted, but not racist. @CBSDFW 5pm pic.twitter.com/0uM59Ig7mA
— STEVE PICKETT (@STEVEPICK11) June 8, 2015
In spite of those claims from witnesses, CNN analyst David Gergen took it there anyway:
Outraged by #McKinneyPolice videos. When will this stop?? This continuing disrespect of blacks should have disappeared with KKK.
— David Gergen (@David_Gergen) June 8, 2015
But enough about Robert Byrd.
@David_Gergen Why do you always assume it's because they are black? The black people who were there said it wasn't because of race.
— L W Eaton (@lweatonNC) June 8, 2015
Maybe Gergen thinks he knows more than the eyewitnesses.
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