The weekend’s social media feeds were buzzing over a racially-charged fight that broke out at a pool party in McKinney, Texas that showed a police officer draw his weapon on African-American teenagers and throw a 14 year old girl in a bathing suit to the ground and handcuffing her. That officer was placed on administrative leave and later resigned. But then the social media turned its attention to a woman said to have sparked the fight and matched her identity to a Facebook profile.
A Twitter-bomb identified Tracey-Carver Allbritton initially as a Bank of America employee and demanded the Bank fire her. The Bank responded in kind saying Allbritton worked for a vendor of theirs, a company called CoreLogic which is based in Irvine after moving to the Spectrum from Santa Ana a couple of years ago. CoreLogic has placed Allbritton on administrative leave pending an investigation into the incident. CoreLogic provides financial profiles for banking customers that are used in approving mortgages and other financial transactions.
The company provided this statement to the Dallas Morning News:
“CoreLogic does not condone violence, discrimination or harassment and takes conduct that is inconsistent with our values and expectations very seriously,” the firm wrote in a statement reported by Dallas News. “As a result of these pending allegations, we have placed the employee in question on administrative leave while further investigations take place.”
The company has done the right thing here. And the prudent course of action is a thorough investigation of the incident. Allbritton, according to the Daily Kos, was confirmed to have made racist comments that led to the fight. And these comments may well cost this woman her job. But the company should take their time to gather the facts before deciding what to do.
The much bigger deal here are the actions of Officer David Eric Casebolt. If you watch the video of the incident, Casebolt targets African-Americans here while letting anyone white is left alone by the police. The defense of the police officer by Fox News simply defies logic.
Divisiveness and dishonesty are what you do best, Dan. You lied when you said it was “a racially charged fight.” Black witnesses say that is untrue. The crowd was unwieldy. They were disturbing the peace. They jumped over fences into a private community. What part of these actions completely unrelated to race don’t you understand?
Contrary to your race-baiting lies, the officer did NOT “target African-Americans.” He targeted troublemakers. Stop spinning and lying. You cite the extreme left-wing Daily Kos and expect to be credible? While you lie and lie some more?
From Obama all the way down to you, we get lies and divisiveness.
Shameful. Disgusting. Destructive.
John,
I did read that a black witness say that this incident was not racially motivated. However, the person who filmed the fight, a white teen named Brandon Brooks, says that it was. “I was one of the only white people in the area when that was happening,” Brooks told NewsFix. “You can see in part of the video where he tells us to sit down, and he kinda like skips over me and tells all my African-American friends to go sit down.” “They’re just going to discriminate against them because they’re black,” Brooks said. “What if that was your kid getting slung to the ground? Would you still be talking about them in the way that you are?”
My point of including that quote is that we should all wait for the facts to come out before making accusations that Dan is a “race-baiter” and a “liar”.
Also, I feel that your Obama barb at the end of your post is out of scope for this discussion. I am not sure how he comes into play involving this incident. Just my 2 cents.
The Video camera doesn’t lie; the white police officer only went after African Americans. I believe many of these African Americans at the pool were invited guests.
Dan, as usual you are incorrect. The Officer had at least one white girl sitting on the ground as well as blacks. Of course Democrats who are pushing racial divide in the United States and race baiting professionals who make a living promoting disharmony were on the incident big time. Bottom line of this incident was a small town Police Department was not well trained in crowd control, their First Response tactics were sloppy and one Officer was emotionally out of control. With the problem makers being primarily black, who else are you going to contact and deal with? No race issues here except for the misconduct of those involved.
Oops one white girl. Did he pull his gun out for any whites? Nope
I wasn’t aware that ammunition was able to discern between races….
John,
Reading your comments on this and other threads about your president it is obvious you hate America.
Why is that?
It is not my place to defend John Jaeger, but I know one thing for sure, he does not hate America. Instead Mr. Hackett, if your are defending the actions and miserable record of Barack Obama, I would rank you as less a patriot than John could ever be. This President will go down in history as the worst ever to occupy the White House and the bad news is, he still has eighteen months to finish off the country. As one who has spent his entire adult life defending the Constitution and the values of our country, I take personal offense, as do many others, to the inmates running the asylum.
the worst administration this country has ever had was bush/cheney hands down. in fact they were so bad that America elected its first African American president 50 years before schedule that’s how bad they were. so quit your damn whining lipturd* and when the country is “finished off” will you be leaving then? we can sure use the space.