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And the inevitable justification claiming black youth are dangerous and terrifying... [YOUTUBE]NsdjRGgAC2c[/YOUTUBE]
I'm looking for the full text of the ACLU statement. Some websites quote this from them: The ACLU of Texas said in a statement Sunday that the incident “appears to be a textbook case of overuse of force.” “A well-trained police department would have responded more cautiously, with less hostility, and using sophisticated crowd control methods that favor de-escalation not escalation,” the statement says. “Without question, guns were not needed and in fact risked turning a group of partying teenagers into a violent encounter that could have turned deadly.” The group called on McKinney police to release the incident report and 911 call recording, along with the disciplinary history of the officer. “Police departments are intended to be organizations that protect and serve their constituents,” the statement says. “But increasingly in this country we have two kinds of policing and we saw both in this incident: protecting and serving white communities and criminalizing and controlling black communities.” source
found it! All-in-all, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released an extremely well written statement based on an assessment of improper police procedures and even remarking on a nationwide trend of racially discriminatory police practice and violence directed towards African Americans. Interestingly they also asked that the police release the 911 call that caused the police dispatch in the first place. It would be good for the public and ACLU to listen to that call so that they can further assess whether the complaint/call warranted such a response. That's how lawyers tie together loose ends so to speak.
