Ryan Moats pulled over outside hospital while rushing to be with dying mother-in-law.

Wow.

She died while he was talking to that prick?

He ran a red light, with his emergency lights on, and pulled into an emergency room parking lot.

How stupid can that cop be?

 

I'm normally a defender of the police, but that's just pathetic. I hope that guy loses his badge (though I know the more fitting punishment is probably a citation in his record or short suspension or something.)

 

Exactly. There's no justification on the cop's part. Ridiculous.

 

Yeah, I'm usually the first to give the police the benefit of the doubt, but JESUS... what a complete jackass. Lecturing a man for rolling through a red light while his MIL is dying 100 feet away.

Hospital personal was coming outside to tell the cop that he wasn't lying and the cop STILL won't let it go. Seriously, I hope this douchebag is fired.

 

What a pos. truly a boon to humanity..

 

i hope the cop suffers the rest of his life.

 

Horrible story. That cop needs handcuffing and lots more.

 

I hate the police. Enough of them a jerks that I just rather not deal with them. Personally I would have went in and ignored him. If he wanted to stop me he would had to shoot me. If he was so determined to be a jerk, he could have just let them go inside and wrote them a ticket anyway. As much of a prick as he would still be, at least this probably would keep his job. I really assume he will be fired. A suspension wouldn't be enough.

 

horrible story.

 

as much as i hate cops.. and truly this one deserves everlasting hating... in a deepening recession such as the one we are currently in, they are necessary--the genuine cops are whom i am referring to..

not the pos in this thread.

 

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6343765.html

PLANO — A white Dallas police officer who delayed Houston Texans’ running back Ryan Moats, who is black, from visiting his mother-in-law before she died in a Plano hospital has been reassigned to the dispatch division pending an investigation.

Moats, his wife and other family members rushed from their suburban Dallas home to Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano during the early hours of March 18 after getting word about midnight that Moats’ mother-in-law, Jonetta Collinsworth, was dying.

Dallas-Fort Worth station WFAA-TV, which obtained video from a dashboard camera inside the officer’s vehicle, reported that Moats’ vehicle rolled through a red light en route to the hospital. Officer Robert Powell, 25, stopped the SUV in the hospital’s parking lot outside the emergency room.

Moats explained to the officer that he waited until there was no traffic before proceeding through the red light and that his mother-in-law was about to die. Collinsworth had breast cancer.

The dashboard video reveals an intense exchange in which the officer threatened to jail Moats.

“Get in there,” said Powell, yelling at Moats’ 27-year-old wife, Tamishia, as she exited the car. “Let me see your hands!”

“Excuse me. My mom is dying,” Tamishia Moats said. “Do you understand?”

She and her great aunt ignored the officer and rushed inside the hospital to see Collinsworth.

Hospital security guards arrived and told Powell that the Moatses’ relative really was upstairs dying. Powell checked inside his vehicle to determine whether Ryan Moats had any outstanding warrants. He found none.

Another hospital staffer came out and spoke with a Plano police officer who had arrived. The Plano officer told Powell the relative was indeed dying, in an unsuccessful attempt to intervene.

By the time the 26-year-old NFL player received a ticket and a lecture from Powell, at least 13 minutes had passed. When he and Collinsworth’s father entered the hospital, they learned Jonetta Collinsworth was dead, The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday in its online edition.

Dallas Police Assistant Chief Floyd Simpson said Powell, who was hired in January 2006, told police officials that he believed e was doing his job.

“When people are in distress, we should come to the rescue. We shouldn’t further their distress,” Simpson said.

The Moatses said Wednesday that they can’t help but think that race might have played a part in how Powell treated them.

“I think he should lose his job,” said Ryan Moats, a Dallas native.

The ticket was dismissed, Lt. Andy Harvey told WFAA-TV.

Collinsworth was buried Saturday in Louisiana.

 

What an incredible jackass that officer is. According to the article on chron.com, the office still doesn't think he did anything wrong.

 

One more reason to hate the police. What a complete #$%^head.

 

A cop on a power-trip. He needs to lose his job.

 

Where's WWR to come and tell us how this ******* did a great job?

 

cops suck, yet again.. and no, not all, but still too many abuse the power

 

Wow . . . This is a really screwed up story. Protect and Serve? My nuts.

I don't even know what kind of resolution would be appropriate for this. A real @sshole like Dallas Police Officer Robert Powell will forever be an @sshole (I hope this post stays burned in the annals of the internet forever; that his family will know throughout eternity how sh!tty he was; that they shall feel shamed and driven towards seeking redemption).

It's flat ridiculous for the father not to be able to spend the last moments of his daughter's life by her side . . . all because of d!ckhead Dallas Police Officer Robert Powell.

To the family, I'm really sad for their loss and that they had to deal with such a heartless situation through it all.

 

"I can screw you over." -Every cop ever born