kronicfeld: poisonedpawn78: Sue the police department for 500 trillion dollars.

Sue them for what, legal eagle? If he ran a red light and was being detained, he hasn't a leg to stand on.

Its called publicity. Win the court of public opinion and outrage and you easily will have this cop fired and the next guy whos rushing to his dying mom will actually be let go...

You and I both know the law means nothing in the media.

kronicfeld: poisonedpawn78: Its called publicity.

You said, and I quote, "Plus he will probably win a large amount." So, again, what is he suing this cop for that he is going to "win" a civil suit?

Emotional distress. You can slap that on any suit... it doesn't really mean anything.

Look, we all know the bottom line is this: black dude, expensive car.
I'm guessing the wife is black too because the cop didn't shoot anybody.

kronicfeld: stlbluez: You have NO way of knowing what kind of red light (right on red without stopping... empty intersection, etc... )

I also don't really care. He broke the law, and he invited this incident on himself. If he hadn't broken the law, his wife might have actually gotten to see her mother before she died.

You're a good little bootlicker.

That's some fine police work there Lou!

kronicfeld: stlbluez: You have NO way of knowing what kind of red light (right on red without stopping... empty intersection, etc... )

I also don't really care. He broke the law, and he invited this incident on himself. If he hadn't broken the law, his wife might have actually gotten to see her mother before she died.

Don't read much do you? The wife DID get to see her mom die. Reading is fundamental.

TFA: Dallas police have apologized, dropped the ticket and launched an investigation.

Oooh, the suspense. Let me know how that turns out.

abigsmurf: Remind me never to get sick in America if there are more nurses around like at your hospital. It's bad enough deliberately lowering the standard of care of someone because you're holding a grudge. It's worse that you're lowering their standard of care because you've a grudge against someone they don't know.

It's called a fair triage. The cop loses his get to the front of the line perk for being a dick. He now has to sit like everyone else.

I don't care for cops, but this is heavily slanted to make us all feel sorry for the guy.

He ran a stop light. In Texas you cannot run a stop light even if you have your hazards on.

The family didn't pull over with a siren blaring and lights flashing.

Maybe if they had complied immediately he would have been sympathetic.

They jumped out of the car and start yelling at the cop.

The cop has no way of knowing that this guy's mother in law was sick. People use ANY excuse to get out of a ticket, including saying someone is dying.

The investigation will probably find the cop did nothing out of procedure. And activists will protest.

You can't say fire the cop just because he's a jerk (or else 90% of cops would have to be fired).

And as someone who has dealt with many a Dallas cop, the black cops are generally bigger a-holes than the white cops. The Hispanic are usually the nicest/most reasonable. And that's not a "racist" staement because I said generally and not always!

I don't know if I missed it in the thread, but in Texas every time I've been in a vehicle that's been pulled over, the first words from the officer are invariably "Is there an emergency I should know about?" Sounds like this officer failed that particular part of the checklist.

/ Just putting that out there

DALLAS - Rushing to see his dying mother-in-law at a Plano hospital, a NFL player found himself delayed by a Dallas officer after he was stopped in the hospital's ER parking lot.

With his wife and another woman in the car, Ryan Moats - a running back for the Houston Texans - sped his car towards the hospital on March 17. However, when he made it to the ER parking lot, they were stopped by Officer Robert Powell.

Dashcam video from the Dallas officer's patrol car captured the incident.

"Get in there," Officer Powell yelled out to Tamishia Moats, Ryan's wife, as she exited the car. "Let me see your hands. Get in there. Put your hands on the car."

"Excuse me, my mom is dying," Moats said.

Moats and the other woman ignored Officer Powell's commands and rushed inside the hospital to see her mother.

"I've got seconds before she's gone, man," Moats said to the officer.

Motes couldn't find his insurance paperwork and was desperate to leave.

"Listen, if I can't verify you have insurance...," Officer Powell said.

"My mother-in-law is dying," Moats interrupted.

"Listen to me," Officer Powell said.

"Right now," Moats said. "You're wasting my time."

"If you can't verify you have insurance, I'm going to tow your car," the officer said. "So, you either find it or I am going to tow the car."

As they argued, the officer got irritated.

"Shut your mouth," the officer said. "Shut your mouth. You can either settle down and cooperate or I can just take you to jail for running a red light."

The clash shocked Moats.

"For him to not even be sympathetic at all, and basically we're dogs or something and we don't matter, it basically shocked me," Moats said.

"I can screw you over," Officer Powell said. "I would rather not do that. You obviously will dictate everything that happens; and right now, your attitude sucks."

Twice, the hospital sent nurses to try and get the officer to let Moats go.

"We're blue coding her for the third time," the nurse said.

Even a Plano police officer stopped to make a plea for the officer to let Moats go.

"Hey, that's the nurse," the Plano officer said. "She says the mom is dying right now and she wants to know if I can get him up there."

After 20 minutes, the officer ticketed Moats for running a red light.

However, by the time Moats made it up to the ER, she had already passed.

"I went up after she passed and held her hand, but she was already gone," Moats said.

Dallas police have apologized, dropped the ticket and launched an investigation.

"When it came to our attention, we immediately called for an internal investigation to be done," said Lt. Andy Havey, Dallas Police Department.


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real shaman: Gee, y'all just now realizing that MOST cops are assholes????

That being said, I wonder how many times "My momma is dying" gets used as an excuse for speeding or running red lights.

Even if it's true, I wasn't aware of any exclusions granted to common law.'

Even if he has heard the "My momma is dying" excuse a million times I doubt it was at the hospital with nurses begging for the person to come in because the mom was blue coding for the 3rd time.

kronicfeld: stlbluez: You have NO way of knowing what kind of red light (right on red without stopping... empty intersection, etc... )

I also don't really care. He broke the law, and he invited this incident on himself. If he hadn't broken the law, his wife might have actually gotten to see her mother before she died.

RTFA. She saw her mother, he just didn't get to. There was no endangerment of anyones life or person which is the spirit of the law and if that is not broken then there should be no ticket.

I didn't see the video that Megain linked because it wouldn't load up. But I found one that was from the cop's car. That made me want to cry. This cop needs to be fired.

Texas needs a Fark tag. Florida has lots of weird people but no where in the world can beat Texas for hatefulness of so many of the people in that state.

AiryAnne: I don't care for cops, but this is heavily slanted to make us all feel sorry for the guy.

Speak for yourself, buddy. Yeah, we're all feelin' real sorry for this guy. I hope you're put in a situation like that once in your life. Let's see if you can keep yourself as calm as Mr. Moats did. This cop was a dick and he deserves all this criticism and outrage. It's not about us not knowing what it's like to be a cop, it's about this cop not knowing what it's like to be a person.

Bender the Offender
REALLY? i just love it when some administrative twit that is not involved in patient care steps up to the plate with some sanctimonious crap to tell the people providing the actual care how to do their jobs better...

feckingmorons:Cops are in the ER a lot with their jobs, pissing off a nurse is a very unwise move.

Just goes to show that cops aren't the only folks susceptible to having their uniforms get to their head.

This is but one example that seems to be the result of the zero-tolerance,
one-size-fits-all policing that has been pushed over the past 20 years.

When I was but a wee lad, 3 to be exact, I fell on my head and fractured my skull.
I know, ha-ha, I got dropped on my head as a child.

At the time, my family lived near Va. Tech., and the nearest
hospital was in Blacksburg, about 30 miles away from our home.

I understand that my dad was driving in excess of 90mph to get to the hospital.

He was pulled over, explained the situation to the officer,
and we were given a police escort the rest of the way.

Otto's_Jacket: When other cops are asking you to stop being a douche, you are REALLY being a douche. Holy hell man.

One of the few times I agree that a cop should be fired, this is the kind of shiat head that doesnt deserve to have a badge.

I think the cop was being an asshole because the guy was black. That and he's a Texan cop. Plain and simple.

this cop should've been the one that got shot in oakland

SchlingFocker: , and that he is still a cop.

Wait, what? Even like, right now? After that?

There is no justice. And cops wonder why they're so hated.

In a perfect world that cop would spend years in prison for this. I hope he loses his badge and is sued endlessly at the very least.

There's a confusing lack of tasering in this article.

I just don't get it.

HideAndGoFarkYourself: feckingmorons: Cops should never piss of ER nurses, never ever. That is a very, very bad thing to do if you are a cop.

I've been both. I like being a nurse, not so much being a cop but I was younger and only did it for nine months.

Next time that cop has to take someone he arrested to the ER he will be there for quite a long time. The guy going to jail doesn't mind, but the cop does because he has to sit there the whole time, and when his shift ends he has to call his supervisor to find someone to remote book the person or some other cop to babysit the prisoner.

If the cop ever comes in as a patient and he is not on the verge of death he will have to sit in the lobby. Usually if a cop comes in for something minor like a human bite, or a laceration they are in and out quickly - because we are paying taxes to we don't want them sitting around we want them working. Not Officer dick to the nurses. He will wait even after the fat woman with the crotch that smells like baking bread from across the room has been seen and sent home. He will wait until after every lunatic, crack whore, geezer who talks to himself and drunk who has pissed his pants is seen and then he will wait another 20 minutes.

He will be pushed out of the nursing station and all of the chairs will suddenly be filled when he wants to sit down and work on his paper. He will have to stand at the bedisde of anyone he brings in. Nobody will let him cuff his guy to the bed and take a leak, because the staff can't accept responsibility for his prisoner. He can't go get a coke from the machine and nobody will have time to get him one. He can't borrow a pen because the staff will tell him they all have blood on them and they always wear gloves. He won't be able to use the copier or given any white out.

Cops are in the ER a lot with their jobs, pissing off a nurse is a very unwise move. I hope there is another hospital close to Plano because this guy royally farked himself. No, actually I hope all the above happens to him because he deserves it.

So you're saying that you're going to deny or delay medical care because you get butthurt?

Yeah, you're who I want working in our hospitals.

Idiot.

Actually if you read what I read, you would understand that cops get special treatment in the ER room. In other words they get the VIP treatment, they get in and out fast, what he's trying to say is, if you're that much of a dickhead cop, you're going to get treated like everyone else. You're going to wait wait and wait some more, you're going to understand the term 'Patient', and then you're going to write a novel about it while waiting. The moral of the story is, don't bite the hand that will one day feed you. If you're too dense to understand the underlying message, maybe you should apply to the Dallas Police department, they may have a position open sometime soon.

That does suck. No one should miss the chance to watch their mother-in-law die.

Bender The Offender: Hey, thanks for your input. And, since I'm sure you're an ER nurse yourself and have an intimate understanding of triage, you can explain

Obviously not, since only the input of an RN is accepted. Maybe I was too quick to judge on the similarity between the asshole-ish natures of cops and nurses... at least on your part.

I mean, only an RN could possibly understand the difference between emergency response and full treatment; only an ER nurse has ever been in a situation where somebody in the waiting room was bleeding all over the floor, only to be quickly bandaged in lieu of stitches, which were to come later; only somebody with your level of intellect and experience can relate to the experience of having a human/animal bite cleaned and covered, then sent back into the waiting room for another three hours.

Yeah, go eat a bowl of dicks, you self-righteous twat.

buddyrtr: I would also give Moats ten minutes, unsupervised, in a locked room with the former officer.

This.

Or hell. In some sadistic way I hope that this officer has a loved one dying and he's held up by some red-tape bullshiat.

I don't place all the blame on the football player, obviously, because the cop was a mega-douche and should be fired.

But why the hell didn't he just say "tow it" when the first thing the cop said to him was if he leaves he was going to tow the car.

SpinStopper: Impudent Domain: SpinStopper
The cop should have tasered Moats. And the two nurses. And the Plano police officer. And fired his gun into the air just for good measure. This is Texas, after all.

Yeah because that shiat would NEVER happen any where else right?
Like cops have NEVER done anything dicklike in sophisticated places like LA and NY right?
/dumbass

Take that chip off your shoulder and put it back where it belongs.

I live in Texas, so I made fun of Texas. Big deal. I have learned some important things, though:

1. If I single out Texas, as in the example above, somebody will take offense because "that shiat happens other places too! Texas ain't special!" Well, you can be special too if you want.
2. If I mention any place other than Texas, somebody will notice that I'm in Texas and angrily point out that "that shiat happens in Texas too! Texas ain't special!" Goody. I'll make you an honorary Texan if you want.

Enough ranting. We now rejoin your regularly scheduled program, already in progress ;)

Reading the original post, I was imagining the Simpsons Texas guy shooting his guns in the air and saying "yee-haw" and I thought it was hilarious.

I've lived in Texas my whole life, and I think the stereotypical caricatures are hilarious. Come on people, learn to laugh at yourselves.

abigsmurf: Wonder what would've happened if he'd hit another car running that red light...

/just saying

But he didn't hit anyone. All we know is that he ran a red light. He might have stopped at the light waited for traffic to clear and then went through it. Or he could've been doing 90 and just flat out went through it. But since there was no high speed pursuit or mention of speeding by the officer, I'd guess it's closer to the first.

Ya know, Moats deserves a ticket. And from this video, I would suspect that he wouldn't really argue. However, all the officer needed to do was let them into the hospital. He can actually write the ticket without having Moats around. Moats doesn't actually need to sign it. There are plenty of ways that the cop could've still given the ticket (and raised needed revenue) without hindering Moats from entering the hospital.

Speaking as a Texas Citizen and noting that it was a cop writing up an african American.....This guy is lucky he didnt just get farking shot, just for shiites and giggles. Texas Cops are the scariest angriest most psychotic group of law enforcement in earth history, they will tase your ass for doing whats expected, they will shoot you for having down syndrome.

This is not a troll, this is a farking warning.

The Doubting Apostle: Cops never get fired it seems. The only way they fire them is if they steal from the department.

You mean like this cop, who only got 20 days in jail (^) for stealing over $8,500 from the evidence locker?

nopokerface: That does suck. No one should miss the chance to watch their mother-in-law die.

...and out of the dust storm that is this thread, a diamond emerges.

Well done.