Dajerria Becton was only 15 when she was pinned down by a cop, face down in a bikini as police broke up a pool party in McKinney, Texas. The video of her arrest went viral and Dajerria and her family sued the city and the officer Eric Casebolt, who resigned a few days after the incident.....
The settlement announcement came shortly after McKinney Mayor George Fuller referred to Dajerria as a “verbally abusive, disobedient girl,” in an email to a local activist involved in protests of Dajerria’s arrest.
“You’re not afraid of white people who pose an actual threat, who walk out of shooting up a church or a school without a scratch on them, but you are afraid of a black girl and her ‘tone’?” Dajerria’s lawyer told Teen Vogue.
“Watch the video – she never used a cuss word, never talked back to him – all she did was repeatedly ask someone to call her mama.”
Dajerria recently graduated from high school and her lawyer says she plans to host a fabulous pool party in McKinney this Saturday to celebrate their graduation and the settlement.
Her lawyer also says the party is like a “redo” of her experience, especially after the teen told her she hasn’t gone swimming since the incident.
A host of activists as well as the other teens who were detained at the pool party are invited.
Dajerria plans to attend a local community college in the fall and hopes to start a business with the settlement money she received.
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