This is how ‘knuckleheads’ ruin things for everybody

The cop who pulled his gun during that neighborhood fight in McKinney, Texas has now resigned, but the debate goes on, and it doesn’t break along racial lines.

The people of McKinney don’t want help from out-of-town activists. They don’t see McKinney as anything like Ferguson or Baltimore. And there are black residents of the Craig Ranch community saying race had nothing to do with it.

Benet Embry is one of them.

“Out of 130 predominantly African Americans, seven knuckleheads ruined the whole thing for everybody,” he told the media.

A racist comment apparently set things off, but a lot of people make racist comments. And a lot of pool parties get crashed by knuckleheads. And a lot of parties are broken up by cops. That’s not unusual.

What was unusual that cop in a middle class suburban community slamming a 14 year old girl to the ground, and then pulled his gun, ready to shoot anyone coming to her defense.

Being a dad with a daughter who lives in a middle class suburban community I knew that if I had seen my kid being tossed around by the cops I pay for, my instinct would have been to rush that cop.

And he’d have been justified in shooting me on the grounds he felt threatened.

So I think this has revealed the danger of an out-of-control cop to a whole new audience.

But at the same time it’s a reminder that if there’s anything that needs strict adult supervision &#8212 it’s a teenage pool party. I frankly hated them as a kid. It was like taking a bath with strangers. But if you must have one, keep it small and only invite people you absolutely trust. It’s much safer and, let’s face it, there’s a reason they put all that Chlorine in those community pools.