Do You Remember the Texas Officer Who Pinned Teen Girl? He Had Disciplinary Record (2337 hits)
Eric Casebolt had been disciplined three times in his 10-year career.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A white suburban Dallas police officer who resigned after video showed him forcing a bikini-clad black 15-year-old girl to the ground in June was disciplined three previous times during his 10-year career with the department, police records show.
The June 5 incident involving McKinney police Officer Eric Casebolt, who also pulled a gun on other black teens outside a pool party, sparked criticism, protests and eventually Casebolt's resignation.
Casebolt's attorney, Jane Bishkin, said Tuesday that she had not seen Casebolt's personnel file, which was released to media late Friday, but called his disciplinary record a "non-issue."
"If he were that bad, he would have been fired a long time ago," she said.
The file reviewed by The Associated Press shows Casebolt was suspended without pay for one day in June 2010 after going in his police car and in uniform to bail out his girlfriend from jail.
