‘They Punching On People!’: Texas Cop Seen Hitting Multiple Children In Unprovoked Attack at a Pool Party. Victims’ Families Demand An Arrest, Not Just Termination

A police officer in Galveston, Texas, was terminated from his job after a shocking 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. “They punching on people!” Heidi Williams, a mother of one of the teens is heard yelling...