Following the release of footage of a white cop assaulting young black teens at a neighborhood pool party in McKinney, Texas, activists took to Twitter to express their frustrations.
Here are some powerful responses:
Doesn't get much more brainwashed than defending an armed man forcibly straddling a child in a swimsuit. #McKinney
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) June 8, 2015
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/607675185009987586
If you watch the video from #McKinney don’t just watch the action, listen to the difference in language when addressing the black kids.
— Amadi (@amaditalks) June 7, 2015
Perhaps the most disturbing part of the video was white adults standing around KNOWING this was wrong and not intervening. #McKinney
— Charles Clymer (@cmclymer) June 7, 2015
That young girl was assaulted. Period. Ask any victim or survivor: that scar will last a lifetime. #McKinney
— Brittany Packnett (@MsPackyetti) June 8, 2015
https://twitter.com/AnansiTheGriot/status/607583704722997248
The entire time the "rogue" cop in the #McKinney video was assaulting those children with his weapon drawn, not one "good cop" intervened.
— Halfrican American (@lenubienne) June 7, 2015
Sad thing: had there not been video evidence of this, most would've thought the kids were lying. #McKinney
— Rhe (@RHEmarkable) June 7, 2015
They'll be more incidents like #McKinney, there is probably one or three happening right now.
— #ArmedNAware (@SankofaBrown) June 8, 2015
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/607925753620111360
And we can pretend all we want, but that display of violence by police would not have happened to white children. CHILDREN. #McKinney
— PrestonMitchum (@PrestonMitchum) June 8, 2015
#McKinney and countless other police brutality videos are a prime example of what 'Privilege' truly is. Privilege = Assumed Innocence.
— Hasan Minhaj (@hasanminhaj) June 7, 2015
If you can't see yourself & your own humanity in every single child you encounter, you do NOT belong in positions of authority. #McKinney
— Brittany Packnett (@MsPackyetti) June 8, 2015
In what world are both of these accepted? Ours. #McKinney pic.twitter.com/kXAQ5jVoPt
— Ava DuVernay (@AVAETC) June 7, 2015
