Cop pulls over family... *READ*

[Braydog]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...p.3e9c080.html

I found this video a little disturbing. The cop didn't have the respect to let the man see his mother. He was hell bent on throwing the law at this family.

[Antaletriangle]

I don't know whether anyone else gets this but mine says "page not found" when i click on the link.

[Northern Boy]

Here is an editorial to what I can only assume to be related to the first post in this thread .


Editorial: Dallas cop doesn’t deserve his badge
06:54 PM CDT on Thursday, March 26, 2009

The conduct of Dallas police Officer Robert Powell in the Ryan Moats matter beggars belief. A frantic Moats, emergency flashers blinking, had run a red light rushing to Baylor Regional Medical Center in Plano, where his wife’s mother was upstairs dying.

'I can screw you over'
Excerpts from the 17-minute exchange between Dallas police Officer Robert Powell and Ryan Moats last week. The video is available in edited and unedited form at dallasnews.com/video:

Moats: "You really want to go through this right now? My mother-in-law is dying. Right now! … I got seconds before she’s dying, man!"

Powell: "If my mom was dying, I’d probably be a little upset, too, but when I saw flashing red and blue [lights], I’d stop."

Moats: "If you’re going to give me a ticket, just give me a ticket. … All I’m asking you is just hurry up."

Powell: "I can screw you over. I’d rather not do that. … I could charge you with fleeing right now. Understand what I could do. … I could make your life very difficult."

Moats stood outside the emergency room pleading with the officer to let him go so he could say goodbye to his mother-in-law. The officer was unmoved.

“I can screw you over,” he told Moats, as he took his time writing a ticket for running that red light. “I’d rather not do that.”

By the time Powell finished, about 15 minutes after the stop, Jonetta Collinsworth was dead.

Moats didn’t get there in time.

I can screw you over. True enough. And that’s why Robert Powell, despite an otherwise clean service record, has no business on the street as a Dallas cop.

In a society ruled by law, a sacred contract exists between the police and the people they protect and serve. We grant them extraordinary powers and need them to do their duty to keep the rest of us safe. We also expect them to use those powers wisely. When they abuse power — one or all — they cede authority.

Judging from the videotape from the officer’s car, the young cop — 25 years old, with only three years on the job — abused the power of his badge. Yes, Moats violated a traffic law; under the circumstances, who wouldn’t? Powell may have been within his rights to sanction Moats, but how he did it was appallingly unjust and cruel.

Worse, Powell speaks on the tape like a penny-ante sadist relishing the power he had to ruin someone’s evening. Even as hospital personnel emerged to vouch for the family’s desperate situation, Powell remained unmoved. There is no evidence that Powell, who is white, acted out of racist motive toward Moats, a black NFL running back, but that suspicion is on a lot of minds today.

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When the face of the law belongs to an immature officer who uses it to poke desperate citizens for apparent pleasure, it stains an entire department. Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle has demonstrated time and again that he takes this behavior seriously. We expect that he will oversee a complete investigation and administer appropriate punishment — including dismissal, if warranted by a cool-headed appraisal of the facts.

The truth is, there are Dallas cops guilty of worse fired by Kunkle, only to be reinstated on appeal. If Powell gets pink-slipped for this, he could join them. That might be a legal outcome, but in light of what the Moats incident reveals about Powell’s temperament, an unjust one. What bitter irony that would be.

No appeals judge can take away the penalty of self-knowledge Powell has to live with forever: that in a matter of life and death, he screwed over a fellow human being. Just because he could.

[Antaletriangle]

Thanks for the transcript northern boy.

[TruthWillSetUFree]

This story brought tears to my eyes.

Using power over another is exactly how the darkness of humanity fills another human being.

This is what we guard against in every moment of every day.

Any one of us could be that Policeman

It is the moments that count

The moments when you choose love over hate

compassion over indifference

and hope over despair

This is how we will win

This is how the light will permeate the darkness

How we will heal the collective shadow that is within all

In every moment

Choose Love

Love to all

Truth

[Antaletriangle]

That copper is simply a puppy, with lots to learn in the grand scheme.He knew all along what he was doing- bad man,misled by his own ego.

[JesterTerrestrial]

Disturbing also...

When this loser is not "tasering" people to death he gets drunk, and uses his vehicle to hit and kills some guy on his bike then takes off (still drunk) with his kids.



RCMP officer in deadly DUI crash was also involved in taser death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYgvnO_k93A

[Northern Boy]

You have to wonder what possess`s some one to do this . They must have been picked on as a child in school or have had very low self esteem . how could you not just let the guy go see his mother in law and talk to him after wards

[Antaletriangle]

Massive insecurity complex with life-not saying all coppers are bad some are great and keep their human aspect and are disgusted with alot of what's occurring in the world but alot of newer recruits are almost cloned into as ss style of policing-these are the ones who need to be addressed and it should start from within their own establishment-they need routing out,problem being is that the heads are promoting the police, fascist state.

[Egg]

Karama.

That Officer will not last long, because Karma has a nasty way of creeping up on those who deny others their basic freedoms and humanity.

[waitinginthewings]

Originally Posted by Antaletriangle

I don't know whether anyone else gets this but mine says "page not found" when i click on the link.

I get the same thing?

[Swanny]

Originally Posted by Antaletriangle

That copper is simply a puppy, with lots to learn in the grand scheme.He knew all along what he was doing- bad man,misled by his own ego.

Sad little man on a power trip

[Braydog]

oops, wrong link, wasn't paying attention haha

http://www.dallasnews.com/video/?z=y&nvid=345818

here is the cop car's video recording of the whole thing

[Lorien]

This reminds me of this story....



A Texas State University student who waited to get a speeding ticket while his girlfriend's dog died in her arms has filed a formal complaint with the San Marcos police over the Aug. 5 incident.

Krystal Hernandez was holding her ailing teacup poodle, Missy, while her boyfriend, Michael Gonzalez, raced south on Interstate 35 — allegedly hitting 95 mph — toward a 24-hour veterinary clinic in New Braunfels.

After their car was pulled over sometime after midnight, the couple said they were kept waiting for 20 minutes by Officer Paul Stephens before he issued the ticket, despite their desperate pleas.

Police Chief Howard Williams said an internal investigation was begun after Gonzalez complained.

“This was not our finest hour,” Williams said. “It was not handled right by our officer, but whether there was a violation of our policy that is subject to punishment, I don't know.”

He said the officer has been “counseled” by supervisors.

Hernandez said the incident began when she and Gonzalez returned home after midnight from visiting a friend in San Antonio and fed Missy. When the dog began choking, they tried to dislodge the food, only to have Missy vomit and go limp.

They were racing down Interstate 35 toward New Braunfels when they were stopped by Stephens.

“Instead of helping us, he asked Michael what he was on,” Hernandez said.

She said they begged to be allowed to take the dog to the clinic, also asking that they be allowed to turn themselves in to be ticketed or arrested or for Stephens to detain Gonzalez there while she drove the dog to New Braunfels.

Instead, she claims, Stephens responded, “Chill out, it's just a dog, you can buy another one.”

Instead of hurrying to issue the ticket, Gonzalez said, Stephens chatted with two other officers on the scene. When he finally allowed them to leave 20 minutes later, the dog was dead, Gonzalez said.

But Chief Williams, who reviewed the patrol car's videotape of the stop, said Gonzalez should not have been driving so fast.

“He was going to kill someone the way he was going,” Williams said. Unfortunately, the chief said, the officers made the situation worse.

Gonzalez said he was told that the department's shift commander had contacted the municipal court and asked that the speeding ticket be dropped.

“That kind of makes me more furious,” Gonzalez said. “It's like I was kept there for nothing.”

[mntruthseeker]

They actually showed this on our news this evening. I was sickened by it. The cop needs to be fired for sure. I seen on the discovery channel once a similiar story and in this case the cop went to the ER with the man. It turned out that his wife was in labor and they had no idea she was pregnant. The cop was still lecturing the man when the woman got the news. Unbelievable. They just go too far some times.

In my family there are quite a few cops. It seems that they are all so stressed lately. They need to put in all kinds of hours and I want to know the big plans. LOL actually most of already know. So I think its the stress level they are under and most of them think they are God.....

[THE eXchanger]

unfortunately; its in their training
worst part, is our tax dollars, go to pay for that training