Just to point out, some of them were invited, so they weren't all trespassing.
No, that is inaccurate initial reporting. Every single person in that video was breaking the rules and trespassing.
Pool parties at that pool are capped at 20 people... not 130... and have to arranged beforehand. The "promoter" of the party did not do that. And while she was a resident and allowed access to the pool, she is only allowed to bring two guests. Well over 90%+ (and everyone in the video) had no grounds to be there whatsoever under any circumstance... and even the resident and her up to 2 guests were legally asked to leave for
breaking the rules.
Two security guards were assaulted when they tried to make people who were illegally there leave the premises. Then they called the cops. And then when they ignored instructions to disperse, then that girl got taken down.
Did that cop act badly? Sure, he's the only one running around without a cool head of the multitude of officers that are there. I'm not really defending his actions, I'm more anti the idea that this incident is somehow a big deal.
Do I think #blacklivesmatter and all the outcry applies to a situation where someone in violation of the law refused to comply with instructions got taken down forcefully with no serious injury? No. Do I think drawing a gun matters if the cop correctly used restraint and no one was injured by the firearm? No.
I think the police accountability movement gets discredited when people try to make a huge deal out of a situation where
no one got hurt AND all the initial facts are wrong AND you have black home owners in that neighborhood outspoken about how the narrative is bullshit AND the instigators of #DimePieceCookout are frantically trying to scrub that fact from social media... like that would be happening if they were all in the right on this...