Update! Eric Casebolt Has Resigned Amid Protests

Amid immense national scorn and public backlash, Police Corporal Eric Casebolt, has resigned. The fiasco began after receiving a frantic 911 call from the residents of the pool community, the Mckinney Police Department responded by sending nine officers to the scene of a pool party full of teenagers, celebrating the end of the school year.

A large outcry of unrest has followed the incident and residents are standing tall demanding better from the Mckinney Police

None of the teens at the party were armed nor did they present any danger to the police officers. This is why many around the country are demanding to know the reasoning behind former officer Casebolt throwing a fifteen year old girl (Dajerria Becton) to the ground and placing his knee in the small of her back. As if this wasn’t enough, Casebolt also pulled his gun on several other unarmed teens. The uproar has been so intense that the Mckinney Police Department has been forced to take on extra staff to answer all the phone calls demanding the firing of the officer.
Casebolt’s lawyer reported the resignation to Fox4, “"Casebolt had served in the Navy for a decade from 1993-2003. He was an operations specialist for seven years and in the military police for another three years," Fox 4 reports. "From 2003-2005 he was a highway patrol trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety.” 

So the question now becomes, where do we go from here? All the phone calls and political pressure have gotten the officer fired and most likely will lead to a lawsuit in favor of Dajarria Becton, but will anything actually change? I know I am not alone in noticing that instances of police officers using excessive force seem to be popping up all over the country. The time has come for real change on a national level that will change the culture of policing here in America. In addition, even though every candidate has except Hillary Clinton has been completely silent on this serious issue, I hope that all this political pressure will lead to something happening on Capitol Hill. Comment at the bottom of this page and join the discussion. 

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar Interview

           When I heard that Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar were going to do an interview about Josh Duggar's repeated molestation of their four daughters over a two year span, I thought that they would take responsibility for their parenting failures and confront the terrible situation in a rational way, but I was wrong.

The interview was a complete disaster, but what more could be expected from Megyn Kelly and Fox News? You may remember Megyn Kelly as the "reporter" who back in 2013 told kids around the country, “And by the way for all you kids at home watching, Santa is white. We’re just debating this because some guy wrote an article but Santa is what he is.” My real issue with this interview is that rather than ask the Duggar’s tough questions about why they allowed Josh to repeatedly molest four of his sisters and a female baby sister, Megyn Kelly just let Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar make excuses for their son and for their own failures as parents. They even rolled out the tired old Sarah Palin line of claiming that they were being treated unfairly due to their Christian beliefs. Megyn Kelly also throughout the entire interview showed her bias by blasting the “liberal media” for their coverage of the scandal. It is clear to any that watched the interview that Megyn Kelly wants this whole issue to be swept back into the closet so we can go back to thinking that the Duggar's are America's perfect Christian family. 

If I had had the opportunity to ask the parents some questions, I would have asked them why it took so long for them to remove Josh from the home? He came to them and told them what he had done yet they still kept him in the house for a lengthy period until it became clear that he wasn’t going to stop; only then did they removed him from the home. Who knows how many times those girls were exposed to molestation due to that decision. Furthermore, I would ask when Michelle Duggar is going to apologize to the LGBT community for her abusive language and intolerance that she spewed out in Arkansas during the election cycle of 2014. Michelle recorded automated phone calls in staunch opposition to a city ordinance that would have allowed transgender individuals to use that restroom that they most comfortably identify with. She is quoted as saying, “I don’t believe the citizens of Fayetteville would want males with past child predator convictions that claim they are female to have a legal right to enter private areas that are reserved for women and girls.” Thus Michelle Duggar implied that transgender individuals have child predator convictions while covering for her son, Josh Duggar, who had actually molested his own sisters. This is the kind of hypocrisy that only Megyn Kelly and the rest of the Fox News staff can overlook.