Activists respond to the McKinney pool party incident—on Twitter

Following the release of footage of a white cop assaulting young black teens at a neighborhood pool party in McKinney, Texas, activists took to Twitter to express their frustrations.

Here are some powerful responses:

Doesn't get much more brainwashed than defending an armed man forcibly straddling a child in a swimsuit. #McKinney

— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) June 8, 2015

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/607675185009987586

If you watch the video from #McKinney don't just watch the action, listen to the difference in language when addressing the black kids.

— Amadi (@amaditalks) June 7, 2015

Perhaps the most disturbing part of the video was white adults standing around KNOWING this was wrong and not intervening. #McKinney

— Charles Clymer (@cmclymer) June 7, 2015

That young girl was assaulted. Period. Ask any victim or survivor: that scar will last a lifetime. #McKinney

— Brittany Packnett (@MsPackyetti) June 8, 2015

https://twitter.com/AnansiTheGriot/status/607583704722997248

The entire time the "rogue" cop in the #McKinney video was assaulting those children with his weapon drawn, not one "good cop" intervened.

— Halfrican American (@lenubienne) June 7, 2015

Sad thing: had there not been video evidence of this, most would've thought the kids were lying. #McKinney

— Rhe (@RHEmarkable) June 7, 2015

They'll be more incidents like #McKinney, there is probably one or three happening right now.

— #ArmedNAware (@SankofaBrown) June 8, 2015

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/607925753620111360

And we can pretend all we want, but that display of violence by police would not have happened to white children. CHILDREN. #McKinney

— PrestonMitchum (@PrestonMitchum) June 8, 2015

#McKinney and countless other police brutality videos are a prime example of what 'Privilege' truly is. Privilege = Assumed Innocence.

— Hasan Minhaj (@hasanminhaj) June 7, 2015

If you can't see yourself & your own humanity in every single child you encounter, you do NOT belong in positions of authority. #McKinney

— Brittany Packnett (@MsPackyetti) June 8, 2015