More than a thousand outraged community members took to the streets of McKinney, Texas on Monday night, two days after a local police officer assaulted a number of black and brown teenagers attending a pool party.

As they marched roughly one mile from a local elementary school to the Craig Ranch pool where the incident occurred, demonstrators carried signs—some of which read, “My skin color is not a crime”—and chanted “Fire Him!” referring to McKinney police Cpl. Eric Casebolt, whose brutal actions were caught on video. Others rallied outside of the McKinney police station.

Casebolt, who had been with the department since 2005, was placed on administrative leave on Sunday.

“I speak for a lot of different people who live here,” one community member told Reuters. “I’m angry. I’ve been angry all day. But to be treated that way… Thank god it wasn’t my son.”

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The incident, which drew comparisons to pool segregation under Jim Crow and follows recent high-profile acts of discrimination and brutality by police officers, was widely condemned after a video of the attack went viral. In the cell phone video, Casebolt is seen throwing a 15-year-old black girl in a swimsuit to the ground and then kneeling on her bare back. When others try to come to her aid, Casebolt threatens them off with his firearm.

In an interview she gave after the attack, Dajerria Becton said that Casebolt “thought we were saying rude stuff to him.

“He grabbed me, twisted my arm on my back and shoved me in the grass and started pulling the back of my braids,” Becton said. “I was telling him to get off me because my back was hurting bad.

“I understand how he was feeling, everybody surrounding him,” she added. “I don’t think he should have pulled a gun out on 15-year-old kids.”

According to reports, there was also a small counter-protest with a handful of predominantly white residents denying that racism played a role in the attack and supporting the police actions.