Obvious racism
The Moatses, who are black, said they can’t help but think that race might have played a part in how Powell, who is white, treated them
From the degree that the news put it in, it is screwed up. But to automatically go to "it was a racial thing" is proposterous. People have played the race card to long. It is time to move on.
What do you mean racists? Cops treat EVERYONE that way. “You people” support a well armed and aggressive police state. So quit your damn complaining!
see video from dash cam here
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/032609dnmetcopstop.3e9c080.html
I don’t see any justification for the officer demanding that Mrs. Moats stay with the vehicle — perhaps ask to see her ID quickly before she left, in order to be able to legally identify her as a witness/passenger, but no more than that. She was not the driver, so she hadn’t broken any laws, and given the facts that the red light running apparently occurred quite near the hospital, and the stop happened in the hospital parking lot, and that she was expressing the intention of going into the hospital, her “mother is dying” claim was very plausible. She was not alleged to have broken any laws and had a plausible reason for needing to leave the scene immediately, so there was simply no legal justification for detaining her.