The Daily Show finds the silver lining in the McKinney, Texas, pool party bust

Jon Stewart and Jessica Williams look at the violent pool party bust in suburban Dallas

(Image credit: The Daily Show)

published 9 June 2015

On Saturday, police descended on a pool party in the Dallas suburb of McKinney, and one aggressive officer earned a suspension for, among other things, drawing his gun on swimsuit-clad black teenagers in the mixed-race party and throwing another black teenage girl to the ground. Jon Stewart took a look at the videotaped incident on Monday's Daily Show, enlisting the help of "Senior Texas Aquatics Correspondent" Jessica Williams.

Stewart, naturally, was disturbed by the show of excessive force, but Williams — clad in full-metal bikini — archly noted the good news: "Jon, it's progress because a cop pulled a gun on a group of black kids and nobody is dead." The segment then veered into a firecracker battle in Chicago and a discussion of black characters in Harry Potter, and you can watch the whole thing below. Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.