Posted on 03/26/2009 7:44:00 AM PDT by texan75010
As he rushed his family to the hospital, 26-year-old NFL running back Ryan Moats rolled through a red light. A Dallas police officer pulled their SUV over outside the emergency room.
Moats and his wife explained that her mother was dying inside the hospital.
"You really want to go through this right now?" Moats pleaded. "My mother-in-law is dying. Right now!"
The officer, 25-year-old Robert Powell, was unmoved. He spent long minutes writing Moats a ticket and threatened him with arrest.
"I can screw you over," the officer told Moats. "I'd rather not do that."
The scene last week, captured by a dashboard video camera, prompted apologies and the promise of an investigation from Dallas police officials Wednesday.
"There were some things that were said that were disturbing, to say the least," said Lt. Andy Harvey, a police spokesman.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
The article said he had his hazard lights on and the only other car motioned for him to go. The only other car in the vicinity was able to figure out that it was an emergency. It was after midnight.
Years ago....I ran a red light everyday that I went to work.
I had a motorcycle...and I went to work at 0'darkthirdy. Had a light I had to turn left at...and it wouldn't turn green as my bike wasn't heavy enough to "trip" the sensor. So I ran that sucker every time...
Here's hoping this cop's desk duty will be from 11PM to 7AM at some high-rise office building in the Metroplex area.
The Police Department certainly don't need pinheads like this on their force. It's bad enough that the idiots out here in Oakland are whining that last week's cop killer was a victim, we don't need to be giving them ammunition for such ludicrous demonstrations!
Because with a comment like that, the only way you have ANY friends, is to buy them. And they'd have to be REEEEAALL expensive to put up with your attitude.
“Lots of people here don’t bother to read before they post.”
Too many people here don’t bother to read before they post.
Their posts too often reflect badly on FR.
I didn’t read the comments, but agree with whatever you said.
I agree with Defiant’s post 71.
In addition, what if the emergency involves a domestic abuse victim fleeing from an abuser who has murderous intent? Should the victim scrupulously follow all the traffic laws or do what is necessary to live?
A co-worker I have spoke of speeding to get to base on time. He was pulled over by an officer and when asked the reason the officer let him off with a warning.
There are @$$holes in every profession.
Seems to be more than a fair share within LEO occupation.
Even though its a crap job having to often deal with crap people, it seems many go into it to have even a “little” power over all the rest of us.
No, the bad cop should be fired, he has a bad attitude,and should not be allowed to be armed, have powers to arrest, make false reports etc... he is a bad apple and need never work in “law enforcement again” the desk job he got is simply welfare for bad cops, fire him and use that money to hire a good cop on the street. (Probably cant do that easily, because most cops are unionized, and we all know that Unions mean that the bad employees are retained, often promoted.)
That’s how we get stuck with bad cops.
Since almost all cops have some sort of collective barginning thing going where I live, i know that many of them would not be wearing the badge had there been no union, or affermative action hiring/promotion.
with unions, you get lazy, bad, even crimminal cops. yes there are good ones, but the unions are there to protect the bad cops, (good cops dont need no union).
if in private industry an employee acted like that to a customer, they would be fired on the spot, and rightfully so, no severance pay either, because they are fired for cause!!!
Unions allow the worst to be retained, and the best are tainted by poor managment and bad co-workers.
yeah to serve and protect.
Hope this man got to see his mom inlaw ok.
“I didn’t read the comments, but agree with whatever you said.”
Well, I suppose you can’t go too wrong agreeing with me :)
Maybe because the guy was outside the ER when this happened. It sounds like you and the cop are cut from the same cloth.
“How is the cop supposed to know that this isn’t just another in a long line of excuses?”
Like “that’s not my pants”, “that’s not my purse”, “I dunno what that stuff is”, “a guy gave me this car today, no, I don’t know his name”...
The guy ran a light. I got no pity.
So, you are an advocate for ...... Satan?
What solution do you propose? There is no indication of anything except a traffic violation, the officer could have held the persons license, keys and even accompanied the couple ..... but he chose to be an arrogant hiney.
most THINKING people would have invited the officer to go with them to the hospital AND they would have accepted responsiblity for running the light.
If they are actually AT the hospital and the person is ACTUALLY dying (not just waiting for a routine visit) I can’t imagine an officer not being accomodating EVEN IF THE TICKET IS STILL ISSUED.
You are making assumptions and are wrong.
I’m entitled to my opinion just as you.
I think Michael Corleone was the good guy when he killed Captain McCluskey in The Godfather. Obviously that's not how it should be handled in most cases, but there's nothing worse than a cop who abuses his position.
Yes, I read the article. He was speeding.
Dont get caught up in the emotions of the situation.
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