Big Boi, Skyzoo, and Kevin Gates are among the artists who have reacted publicly to video released over the weekend, which shows a white police officer in McKinney, Texas pulling a gun on a group of teenagers following an incident at a pool party.
A number of rappers shared footage of the video on social media and offered their own commentary.
“I pray my daughter never has to go through this!!! Somebody gone die!!!!,” Kevin Gates wrote after posting a clip of the video on Instagram.
In addition to pulling a gun on the teenagers, the police officer used his knees to subdue a 14-year-old girl he pulled to the ground.
Brooklyn, New York rapper Talib Kweli called for those to “demand justice” in the matter, posting a picture with a phone number and email address for the Police Chief and Assistant Police Chief in McKinney.
In his commentary, former Little Brother member Big Pooh called out the police officers who choose not to intervene in situations like the one in McKinney.
“no respect for cops who allow/watch cops pull fuck shit and say nothing. you are an accomplice at that point and should be prosecuted too,” Big Pooh wrote in a tweet sent yesterday (June 7).
Video of the encounter between the police officer and the teens can be found below.
in an amazing turn of events, it turns out you need to physically restrain people who are running away or screaming and rushing at police officers.
If you can’t restrain a 14 year old without pulling their hair, neck slamming them and sitting on their back, law enforcement is the wrong profession for you. If the first thing you reach for on your belt to serve as warning to a group of teenagers is your firearm in lieu of your taser, you, again, are in the wrong profession.
Try again, Rekkington.
When is this gonna stop. This is BS. Micheal Jackson said it the best ” ALL I SAY IS THAT THEY DON’T REALLY CARE ABOUT US.
Cops need to be held accountable for the fucked up things they are doing here, but at the same time, dude told you to leave 8 times, why the fuck are you still standing around like an asshole? Don’t fucking give them a reason to abuse their power.
She had started to leave from the scene because you can see a boy grab her and they start to walk away. He followed her as she was walking away and grabbed her back towards him. Her mouthing off isn’t a good enough reason to do what he did, especially to that extent. I’ve seen grown people say fuck the cops in their faces with no repercussions let alone getting slung like a rag doll.
Bruuh, this is it for me. I’m in Canada and I thank the lord for that but let me go anywhere in the states where something like this happening. I’mma stand up for my human rights 110%. I’mma get lockkd up so that I can show people that this isn’t right. The only reason why these ‘animals’ do what they do is because of that fkkn badge. Fkk all police officers fam. That’s 110%.
They are supposedly to ‘serve and protect’…I call this ‘power tripping’. Pulling your weapon out while whiles kids are running from you? He obviously was overwhelmed with the pressure and couldn’t handle himself in a better way. Can someone post what happened exactly at this pool party tho for this one ‘animal’ to overreact like this? Man I’m so fkkn angry. I feel for that girl. Same age as my youngest sister. Man, I really feel for the young blackk teens in the states. This is highkey prejudice being accepted because these ‘animals’ are wearing a badge.
pussy ass cop beatin on a unarmed 14yo girl…………….smfh.
all it does is show the hate of an inferior race of beings doing what they do best to stay on top and that is oppress with the power they gained when they took this land from day 1..fuck all them British rejects that think doing things like dis is cool..fuck em all..
Stfu u racist pos coward!
Rapper Pooh… to get respect, you need to show respect. Treat people how you want to be treated. Act like a bitch and you get treated like a bitch. Someone probably called the police because of noise, maybe under age drinking or drugs and when the cop shows up, people start mouthing off and being disrespectful and maybe even resisting orders or arrest. What the fuck do you expect? We need cops so we should start showing a little more respect towards them. You think the world would be a better off place without cops!!?? That’s ludicrous, homie! Not all cops are bad. Show some respect yourself and then maybe you will get respect back. Peeps is talking out their asses on here, for real.
Holy Shit!!! You people still dont know the whole story. Just sound bites amd.video snippets!!!
A fucking fight between two females, one with a young child broke out at the Pool Party. Most of these “teens” were tresspassing on Private Property and crashed a Birthday Party and thats why police were called
Unless you want anybody and everybody crashing your backyard next time yo ass has a BBQ helping themselves to yo shit,I suggest you get some fuckin sense and quit painting everything lazily as racist bullshit!!!!
Oh I bet you’re a white motherfucker, nobody said anything about who’s white and who’s black, I feel bad for you man, if you can’t see what’s right and what’s wrong then you’re dumb ass motherfucker. Besides even if a black cop did the same shit it will still be wrong. People please never involve anything about race ever again, please