The COPS-GONE-WILD video of 14-year-old Dajerria Becton getting manhandled by McKinney Texas police officer Eric Casebolt got him in trouble. It’s even meant trouble for the racist woman who started the fight, for the racist who called the cops, for a school principal who defended the officer and for another teacher who defended the racism. I’d love to see repercussions too for the crackers pictured in the video waddling about with impunity as the black teens are being picked out. All that, not because some racist shit went down in McKinney TX, but because someone videotaped it and it went viral.
NOW IMAGINE if the cop had pumped four bullets into the teenager, killing her!
Imagine if he’d fired a total of eighteen bullets and he kept pulling the trigger even after he’d emptied his magazine!
How upsetting would that be to see?
If you could imagine that girl a Latina, in a car full of Latina teens, one January morning in Denver, you’d be picturing the police murder of Jessica Hernandez on January 26, 2015. 
Jessica was unarmed, parked in a vehicle purported to be stolen, with four friends.
If you imagined there might be a video of that too, you wouldn’t be imagining things. Someone did make a video, in defiance of police ordering everyone to put down their phones. By a twist of unhappy fate, the Denver police took that video into evidence. They assure us it shows nothing remarkable. I imagine that might be what authorities in McKinney TX would say about their pool party video if it wasn’t in the public’s possession.
I was recently reminded that there are always two sides to a story (Concerning Jessica’s Death). My reply: Jessica will never be able to tell her side of the story.