‘Terrifying’: Texas Cop Fired After Being Caught on Video ‘Brutally’ Beating Multiple Children and Adults at a Pool Party. Victims’ Families Want the Officer Arrested and Charged

A police officer in Galveston, Texas, was fired from his job after a video showed him beating multiple children and adults at a pool party while he was off duty. Now, the families of the affected children want that now-former cop, Jared Rivas, arrested and charged. On June 25, Rivas was involved in an altercation with a group of teens celebrating someone’s birthday party at the Island Bay Resort apartment complex’s pool in Galveston with their parents’ permission. A video screenshot shows an off-duty police officer punching a pool partygoer while a uniformed officer restrains the person. (Photo: YouTube screenshot/FOX 26 Houston) Rivas was working as a courtesy officer at the apartments that day, according to Fox 26. When he came across the party, he allegedly asked the group to leave the pool area because they didn’t live at the complex. As they were leaving, family attorneys said he carried out an “unprovoked and brutal assault” on the teenagers. Both bystanders and victims captured the altercation on cellphone video, which shows Rivas punching and kicking the teens and pinning them to the ground. Rivas called for backup during the fight, and when other officers from the Galveston Police Department arrived,...