Jessica Williams on what to wear to a McKinney pool party

We’ve all been disgusted and disturbed by the video footage of police pulling their weapons on a group of Black teenagers at a pool party in McKinney, Texas. It’s yet another example of police using force and the threat of deadly violence that they almost certainly would not use were the people in question white. In fact, in this case, we know they didn’t use force for the people who were white. The Times reports:

The video of the police response shows Officer Casebolt using profanity and shouting at teenagers as he and others officers try to round up some of them and shoo others away from a chaotic scene. He appears to grab the girl in frustration when she does not leave the area.

In an interview with KDFW-TV, the girl identified herself as Dajerria Becton. She told the television station that she had been invited to the party and had not been involved in a fight.

Brandon Brooks, 15, who shot the video, told a TV station that Officer Casebolt had not confronted him, one of the few white teenagers at the party.

“I was one of the only white people in the area when that was happening,” he told the station. “You can see in part of the video where he tells us to sit down, and he kind of like skips over me and tells all my African-American friends to go sit down.”

Jessica Williams of The Daily Show, clad in body armor and a bikini (“a McKini,” Jon Stewart termed it), turned in this report:

Williams says of this incident, “It’s progress, because a cop pulled a gun on a group of Black kids and nobody is dead.” And then she goes on a spot-on rant about the whiteness of Hogwarts. While wearing a bikini and body armour. Someone get this woman a campaign song and a ticket to Iowa.