As a grand jury charges former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager with murder for the shooting death of unarmed African-American Walter Scott, hundreds have protested in McKinney, Texas against a white police officer who threw an African-American bikini-clad 14-year-old girl to the ground, and pointed his pistol at other black youths at a pool party.

"Democracy Now!" is joined by Cheryl Dorsey, a former sergeant in the Los Angeles Department, the third largest in the country. Dorsey's autobiography is "The Creation of a Manifesto: Black & Blue."

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