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.
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This is a different Baylor Medical Center. It's in Plano, just north of Dallas. You can see it when driving on 190, just west of the Coit toll plaza.
Well, he is parked RIGHT IN FRONT OF A HOSPITAL. And, two different nurses come out of the hospital TWICE pleading with the officer to let the man see his mother-in-law as she only had moments to live.
AMEN - Why in the world is it any business of the state if you are financially capable of handling a CIVIL claim? Answer. It's none of their damn business. People are so willing to cede power to the state it makes me ill. This is what I want from my state - not a damn thing. Mandatory insurance, especially AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE, really chaps by butt.
I can maybe see an argument for mandatory flood, hurricane or other natural disaster insurance. Because, when people don't have it, the GOVT. ends up footing the bill in a big piece of disaster relief legislation. But the GOVT has never, to my knowledge, bailed out someone because they totaled their car - although they may just be on the horizon with this new bunch of White House morons we've got.
"They exercised extraordinary patience, restraint, dealing with the behavior of our officer," Kunkle said. "At no time did Mr. Moats identify himself as an NFL football player or expect any kind of special consideration. He handled himself very, very well."I'll cut the cop some slack on the issue of the "big deal jock" just as soon as I find out that the cop even knew he was a professional athlete. Which is a fact not in evidence
That's what I expected - the police department, and even IMHO the union, recognizing the radioactive nature of this case and letting that (soon to be former) officer twist in the wind. As well he should. Whoever comes to his defense will end up regretting it - "sooner rather than later, more rather than less."
Spot on. To make matters worse, adding dangerous and/or previously uninsured drivers to the population of policyholders makes everyone’s premiums go up because they are a higher risk! So in essence safe and/or longtime policyholders are ‘bailing out’ the latecomers and miscreants.
Insurance companies don’t hire dopes - they have armies of actuaries who know exactly what they are doing to keep the financial needle steady. Governments, on the other hand, have a surplus of rubes who confuse State Farm with the Holy Catholic Church and jump when they are told to jump.
Had you and Puppage read the entire story, you would have known that this took place outside the emergency room at the hospital.
Duh!
Maybe the lying arrogant prick (LAP) could've walked inside the emergency room to ask the doctor treating Moats' MIL instead of assuming anything?
Nah! The lying arrogant prick (LAP) had a doughnut and hot coffee waiting for him...
I'll bet you will in the future, huh?
Here's my problem with all the supposed 'good' cops.
They know what the bad cops do, but turn their heads and pretend it didn't happen.
Just like the cop who videotaped his partner kicking his police dog that was tied up to a railing.
Had this same cop seen you or I kicking our dog, we would've gotten a ticket for animal cruelty. Had we kicked a police dog like he was doing, we would've been charged with assaulting a police officer.
Because of this, I don't fool myself into thinking that most cops are good and there are only a few bad ones who give the good ones a bad rep.
Looks to me like he could have handled things a little better.
I just watched the unedited video someone posted a link to. The officer handled this very badly.
bttt
Oooooooh, yeah
Your right. They are looking for tax revenue. I have noticed a large increase in police patrol activity on our local highways and roads recently. Every town is in need of money and they are getting it any way they can. Tax hikes, tickets, you name it.
Had you and Puppage read the entire story, you would have known that this took place outside the emergency room at the hospital.
Duh!
OK, the cop could have walked into the hospital and found out. Doesn't change my point and makes the cop look like even more of jerk.
Even his fellow cops are jerks. They did go inside and confirm that Moats' MIL had just died.
Not a single one told the cop writing the ticket (a rookie, no less) to cool it and let Moats go into the hospital to be with his wife and her mother in her last moments.
Instead, they looked the other way while this cop went through his ego trip. Afterward, everyone is totally disgusted. While it was happening, everything was fine with them.
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