Comments | kraven251: Dallas police Officer gets shafted?

kraven251

Dallas police Officer gets shafted?

Mar 27, 2009 12:48

Ok, a cop pulls over Ryan Motes, a Houston, Texas running back. Ryan has ran a red light and two stop signs...his reason for this was his mother-in-law was dying in a hospital. Now that said, 4 Police officers died in California in the past week, you have an SUV that has violated the law multiple times. Then they pile out of the SUV and start ( Read more... )

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anvilchorus March 27 2009, 17:12:14 UTC

Ryan Moats isnt even very good.....

moxiedonna March 27 2009, 17:45:32 UTC

One of the many reasons I hate people sometimes. There is no respect for my profession. That being said, four good men are being memorialized in about 15 minutes at Oracle Arena in Oakland. May they rest in peace. And may there be no protests or people outside the arena cheering for the deaths. Assholes.

rinifer March 27 2009, 19:07:06 UTC

I understand NFL guy's haste to be at the scene and clearly he wasn't thinking clearly, but if he had called 911 while the guy was following him and explained I think that things would have gone smoother for everyone. It was in his best interest to get the situation smoothed over ASAP and he failed to do that.

I am with you in thinking that if it had been Joe Schmo's mother-in-law nobody would give two shakes about it and the poor officer would not have been penalized for doing his job. When was the last time they issued a public apology for pulling over Joe Schmo under similar circumstances? Shenanigans.

anvilchorus March 27 2009, 20:54:20 UTC

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-player-stopped&prov=ap&type=lgns

There's a pretty good recap there. Looks like the officer was just a jerk.

kraven251 March 28 2009, 02:56:32 UTC

well they took some things out of context...of course he drew his gun, it is normal procedure when dealing with a hoard of people piling out of a vehicle you pulled over,

And leading with, "I can screw you over" omitting the rest of the sentence where he said "but I'd rather not do that," at the start of the article is bad journalism.

The article while I am sure has the facts, also has a serious slant that feels more like an opinion piece than the news.

moxiedonna March 28 2009, 04:50:11 UTC

99% of the time, the media is skewed against law enforcement. that's what they do. love it

nephadia March 28 2009, 13:57:23 UTC

Y'know what, my heart goes out to the poor guy whose mother died while he was held up in the parking lot.

Personally, I would have told the cop to wait until I came back, I was going to see my mother, and then I would have walked away.

Hell, he could have followed me to the room and issued the ticket there, but there's no way someone would keep my from my mother's last minutes like that. Besides, then he would have known I wasn't lying to him just to get out of it.

rinifer March 28 2009, 16:31:12 UTC

Mother in law, actually.

nephadia March 29 2009, 16:05:12 UTC

ok, well still. I like mine enough to do the same thing. Like I said, I wouldn't deny the ticket, he'd just have to wait to hand it to me.