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  • He was stopping at intersections, was showing courtesy to other drivers and even had his hazard lights on. He just wanted to see his mother in law one last time... Cop should loose his badge.

  • Take the cops badge and gun!!! He doesnt deserve this type of power!

  • "I'm sorry to the family, bla bla bla" Take your sorry ass down the street with that bullshit! YOUR FIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I will never again support the police department, if he is not fired.

  • The problem with many police officers is that they have a real problem assessing a situation. Sometimes they need to drop the "I'm in charge here" Many of them have a problem in that they look at (all) the public as the enemy. I do not see that race had anything to do with this...Lack of People Skills...that is the problem. He should have realized that the mans mother in law was way more important than putting $100 in the city coffers from a ticket...

  • all i have to say is after watching this is fuck the polise no respect fucking pricks

  • fuk the police, especially white police.... im glad when they get killed... fuk them racist fukrs

  • Someone dying has nothing to do with this guy blowing a red light & breaking the law. Yes, it sucks his relative is dying but he could have nailed someone in that intersection, like your mother.

    Like the support the cop gets for doing his job. Administrative leave for doing his job & giving someone a ticket for breaking the law. Next time you are getting pulled over, try giving the cop an excuse & then walk away...see what the cops do for you!

  • @Highwiredrogue Doing his job? I'm not sure about the Dallas Police policies but I know in Virginia certain emergencies should be taken under consideration when traffic violations are involved. In this case the officer should have escorted Moats to the hospital room and then when that was done wrote out a full ticket for running the red light, not detain him and take away his chance to say good bye.

  • @yugai15 I agree! The cops have a job to do & that means ticketing those that violate the laws everyone is to follow. Just sucks that his mom actually died in the process. You can only imagine the number of excuses an officer hears regularly. Should he have checked? Yes. Did the officer violate any rules? No. The department is just trying to save face at this point.

  • @Highwiredrogue Moats had his hazards flashing and paused at the light, treating it like a stop sign. He only rolled through it when a driver with the right-of-way waved him on. That's not "blowing" the red light and there was no way he could have nailed anyone in the intersection.

    Besides, Moats isn't contesting that he should receive a ticket. This cop got in trouble when people saw how he treated an understandably upset citizen in an emergency.

  • @am9489 I am merely going off the video. If that is the case, the officer did push it to far. I am just tired of people assuming that the cops are always wrong & instantly calling all police officer "facist, nazi, racist, pigs, you name it!" these are just people trying to do a dangerous job. Do some people take their power too far, yes but these are the exception rather than the rule but the rest are not given the benefit of the doubt.

  • @Highwiredrogue Show me the law that says I have to pull over for flashing lights. That should keep you busy a long time cause there isn't one. Chew on that for a minute and see what you come up with!

    It's how they gain jurisdiction by rationalizing that you stopped VOLUNTARILY and acknowledged the officers authority to pull you over, and thereby formed a contract granting jurisdiction over your rights.

    It's all true.

  • @VerifiedNews VC21055. The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle is exempt from Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 21350), (a) If the vehicle is being driven in response to an emergency call or while engaged in rescue operations or is being used in the immediate pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law or is responding to, but not returning from, a fire alarm, except that fire department vehicles are exempt whether directly responding to an emergency call...

    There are laws!

  • @VerifiedNews 21806. Upon the immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle which is sounding a siren and which has at least one lighted lamp exhibiting red light that is visible, under normal atmospheric conditions, from a distance of 1,000 feet to the front of the vehicle, the surrounding traffic shall, except as otherwise directed by a traffic officer, b) the driver of every other vehicle shall yield the right-of-way and shall immediately drive to the right-hand edge or curb... LAW!

  • @Highwiredrogue Doesn't say to stop. Read again. That's not the law that rebuts. Also that law requires a siren. Where's the law that says I have to STOP for emergency lights. Please read the law with understanding before posting.

  • @VerifiedNews That only took me 3 mins to find...it took me a month to actually look at my comments though! It is not that hard to locate the law on any given subject with the desire to actually locate it. Thank you & good night!

  • @Highwiredrogue Ok, what's the law? Cite please otherwise it's just hearsay.

  • I mean if the cop was really worried about him fleeing or w.e, he could have walked him up to the mother in laws room. But i mean the guy stopped at a hospital so its kinda obvious tht something is wrong. Part way thu the cop is like i can arrest u i can tow ur car i can do this and that to try to make it seem like hes the good guy he committed to ticketing and wouldnt stop and say he was wrong.

  • He's only sorry that he has to apologize. He's a lying little piece of shit that needs his ass kicked by a REAL man

  • what a retard, tho, after hearing that his mother was dying, i woulda let him go, without a ticket or anything, or at least give him the ticket later

  • FUCKING BRAINLESS COPS!!!

  • Someone Running a red light could kill someone else, My mother in law is dying isn't an excuse for anyone no matter what color your skin is.... This cop should investigate anyone running a red.. I didn't see a dying mother in law excuse being in the drivers handbook when it is Ok to drive how ever you want... Sorry she died. This isn't about race, it is about breaking the law.

  • it was a hospital red light not a street red light. If it was someone that you know was dying and you wanted to see that person (to say good-by and so on) you would probably do the same thing. I know its not an excuse to run a red light but i would probably do the same thing. i would want my relation to have someone around them before they pass on.

  • @glcwhistler u wouldnt think the same if it was our mother dumbass. His wife was in the car its more important for his wife to get to the hospital to see her mom.

  • Fuck you pig i would care less if you said sorry burn in hell.

  • people listen up and learn,police are gods and we should drop down to our knees and worship them we should beg forgiveness when we make our masters mad at us.never ,never say anything bad about our masters the police.we need to pass a law that says everyday we should go to our masters the police and worship them.

  • Holy FUCK. AS IF it wasn't bad enough, he actually missed the death!!!!!!!!!!

    "NO LAST WORDS FOR YOU MOTHER FUCKER, WE'RE THE COPS!"

    Holy shit that is insane. I'm amazed the cop didn't commit suicide after that. Any honorable person would commit suicide after they realized that they were THAT MUCH of a FUCKING IDIOT!

  • Officer you act like an animal your out of control. What the hell is wrong with you?

  • If he was so sincere, he should have been a man and apologized to Ryan & his family IN PERSON, not with a letter. That's just as insensitive as the stuff he was apologizing for. He should have been fired.

  • dude i wanna see the sonofabitch officer's face when he found out that moats is an nfl player

  • Fuck this guy, sincere my ass and burn in hell.

  • Robert Palle,

    Your handling of this situation provides scary insight into your core behavior. In a hospital emergency parking lot, with hospital personnel pleading the son in law's case - you ruled supreme and denied this man his opportunity to say goodbye to his dying mother in law. Imagine what you would have done if it had been a darkened back street or country road? How many other people have you seriously abused? Is this how your department protects and serves? Independent investigaion?

  • okay what i don't get is why it's okay for police officers, fire trucks, ambulances, and other emergency vehicles to run a redlight to save people's lives but it's not okay for this guy to see his dying mother in law. you'd think that dick cop would understand, apologies can't bring someone back to life and because he was caught up in his pride, that incident will be on his mind for the rest of his life. nice going.

  • to serve and protect, great PR work jerk off

  • Um the officer said that he pulled at gun, no one accused him...

  • Thank God you are a Navy Seal (if you are a good one that is, but by your attitude and thought process...?) and NOT a public servant.

  • @soilddear Amazing how the inclusion of a white cop & a black driver automatically makes him racist & a pig & stupid & any number of other stupid insults the half wit folks have. They love the cops when they need them but screw the cops if they don't. Tell Palle that some folks understand that he was just doing his damned job & broke no rules!

  • fuck yea put that pig in jail.

  • At the least if he wanted to "do his job" so much. Cite him for disregarding a traffic signal, check for warrants and have him on his way...oh but wait he judged the movement of another vehicle to determine that he ran the red light. WOW. But instead he'd rather sit and chat about what he could do, how much power has, and what he will do if he doesn't "shut his mouth", guess it was his kid he was talking to. This makes the good officers look very bad.

  • I'm a black male. But lets think, black male, clean cut, driving newer model Escalade. I'm not a genius but probably not your trouble maker. Some law enforcement mean well, but this guy is out of jurisdiction, had no extinuating circumstances, used poor discretion, and did not follow the #1 rule of LE,GENERATE VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE, he probably never heard of Verbal Judo. Flashing power isnt going to make somebody cooperate. poor example of a cop.

  • im a white guy and i admit i have racist thoughts in my head somtimes which i think everyone does i only think thats normal but i think the cop should have let them go no investigation is this important. to keep some body from seeing their dying mother in law. i think thats just common since. i wouldnt have stopped either.

  • @james4582

    FINALLY some one admits it

    everyone is afraid to admit they are racist

  • @RayWilliamJohansen lol your the man ray love your vids

  • What the fuck ever, "strut around the parking lot, blah, blah, blah", if it was your monkey ass, you'd be reacting in a "jive" way your damned self, if you truly gave a fuck about someone close to you facing their dying moment. And only true queers think this, "go bid on his used jock strap", type of shit up.

  • Guerilla, Quit blackballing me fool

  • lol....cool.

  • AND it's ok for Moats to strut around the parking lot like a chicken talkin' jive to an officer of the law? NO! Moats has a lot of queer supporters, why don't you go bid on his used jock strap on ebay.

  • Sorry? Fuck sorry! If it was all that Mr. Police Officer, you could have just placed the fuckin' ticket on the windshield of the vehicle. I hate how our American Policemen get a fuckin' badge, making $28k a year, and feel like they can just fuck with people's lives. Not all are bad, but a lot more are. Fuck your sorry as mr. officer....

  • Please he is a cop in Texas. Hes a racist and if the guy he was harassing wasn't semi famous it wouldn't matter. the cops are getting busted doing all kinds of fucked up stuff on their dash cams. What are they stupid?

  • thats just fucking stupid!! how many people does it take to get that guy to realize that someone is in a hurry to see their mother in law before she dies and all he can do is bitch and moan about a fuckin light!

  • AND THATS ALL. Incidence over, covered. Apologize? more like manipulation.

  • more of us need to git smart with cops, your out of line the cop was out of line .and sould be looking for a new line of work

    .never be a cop again

  • It was not a big deal in the first place, Moats got smarty with Powell and that's where it started to become an issue, moats baited Powell with an attitude, cops love people with attitudes. Did moats want an apology with cherries and whipped cream on top? moats is a sissy

  • Ushouldn'tjudge me I get the feeling you're that awful man

  • I get the feeling he's a friend/relative of Powell's! LOL

  • That too

  • He said he was sorry, get over it you'all

  • You can bet he only apologized in a half-hearted attempt @ damage control, considering not a coupla days after this incident, he said on his Myspace that he was "hoping for the whole incident to blow over".

  • He's only sorry for getting caught he's he's getting this negative feedback because what he did was wrong.

    You want to know what it's called, It is called Karma and Karma's a bitch

  • You'all??????????????? What does that mean. Stupid redneck yank!

  • lol fuck his apology!! he*s a fuckin racist pig jealous of that blackman!!!! he is a dumb fuckin racist white man!!!

  • ....and Moats will always be a stupid nigger jock boy, it just breaks my heart.

  • police men Fucking disgust me, not only this one, all police men, they have no knowledge of that really goes down, Fucking stop me like that, ill grab your Fucking gun, shove it up your dirty filthy disgusting cunt and mutilate you, Fucking pathetic waste of a life, burn in hell, you dont even have the Fucking brain to catch a 14 year old criminal, yet you call yourself a policeman protecting our lives, choke on a dick Fucking rasist disgusting pathetic joke

  • the cop is an ass

  • Officer powell should be charged with unlawful detention

  • that is what happens when you have a lawyer.

  • Plus more people just came foward about the same jerk cop, one of them who happened to be the wife of Zach Thomas.

    A year before this incident occurred she got pulled over by the same Cop, got 5 tickets and arrested for making an illegal U-turn.

    Disgusting isn't it?

  • He's only sorry for getting caught!

  • Someone said "they should serve us, and they should be grateful and polite." I recognize that there are people who should not be police, but if "WE" were more grateful and polite instead of showing the attitude and putting police lives in danger they way we do, perhaps they would be able to be more grateful and polite. Put yourself in the shoes of the police. If you thought you were getting pulled and a hospital was close by, would you pull in there hoping to get off?

  • Moats not only referred to Powell as "sir" throughout, but explained the situation to him several times...I think he was as polite as he could be, under the circumstances.

  • And considering the arresting officer would most likely check out your story to verify it, I think pulling into a hopsital to try and avoid a ticket would be ill-advised.

  • Powell resigned earlier this wk, can we say "pre-emptive strike"? LOL

  • Moats ran the red light and that did warrant the police to react, but he had his emergency flashers on and was less than a block from the hospital. I think a little common since should have kicked in at that point. I feel there needs to be a better screening process for the personnel that are allowed to be police. He followed procedure like a trained dog instead of using his head and adapting to the situation. Unfortunately in this situation everyone loses.

  • try and make sure they werent the kid pick on in school and now looking for a power trip to get back at everyone he was ridiculed by through out life while ruining other people lives in the process

  • Oh SORRY ass Powell was to tell the world how sorry he is. But he is NOT man enough to do it himself, he NEEDS Cheif to do that for him. SORRY ASS powell. He needs to be the one in jail for using poor judgement, his sorry ass wanted to put Moats in jail b/c he ran a stop light b/c his dear mother n law was dying. I mean I think thats fair, Right?? NO!!!! This SORRY ass Punk is on PAID Leave right now.

  • The cop used poor judgment, I wonder what type of judgment he'll use in more dangerous and stressful situations.

  • Thankfully, since he resigned, we won't have to find out. :-)

  • i think that cop is the devil he should burn in hell!!!!

  • Motherfucking CRACKER cop! Are these lowlife crackers that heartless? FIRE HIS WHITE PASTEY ASS!

  • For all you haters out there he used his hazards to roll threw the stop sign and he did not speed threw at an excessive speed.

  • God, will you look at those disgusting, fat loser pigs! Pathetic!!!

  • That's not going to bring his mother in law back so he can say goodbye. Pigs are sorry alright. You mourn for these kind of people when they die. He doesn't even have respect for human life. Now he's sorry because the police are embarrassed. What the hell ever. That doesn't change shit. These pigs do all this wrong and then say sorry and they think it's okay. Well it's not. fuck you.

  • This cop should be fired he is only sorry because this tape became public. If this taped had not become public he probably would have never apologized to that man.

  • I understand that his mom is dying, but if he ran a red light then other people might die because of his action. ( SO, IF HE DID NOT RAN THE RED LIGHT, THEN THE POLICE WONT STOP HIM AND HE COULD MAKE IT).

    so it is not the policeman mistake because 1)he was doing his job.

    what about if he ran the red light and he killed someone or maybe a whole family?

    still he has the right to do it?

  • The fact of the matter is, he didn't. The cop could have just as easily done his job by jotting down the liscense plate number and doing it that way. Hell, he still could have pulled him over and said "Look, I saw you the run the red light, I'm gonna write your plate down and send the ticket to you". I don't think that's too hard.

  • Go read the entire article he flagged down other drivers with his hazards on so he could run the red lights and he didn't speed threw them he used caution, rolling threw it

  • According to the police reports Mrs. Moats wasnt driving irradically or even speeding. She had her flashers on and actually they would stop and look both ways before proceeding. So they were being very careful as they were driving to the hospital at such a critical time. Also according to several cops i have spoken to the appropriate thing the cop should hve dne was find out wht was going on before pulling out a gun. He shouldve follwed them into the hospital to verfy their story.

  • ass7000: Mr. Moats stopped at the traffic light--observed it was safe to proceed & pulled into the Hospital parking lot. The officer's attention was 1st drawn to the SUV because the hazards were flashing, before the car proceeded through the light & into the Hospital. Are you able to put 2&2 together? Hazards=Emergency +Pulling into Hospital should indicate Medical Emergency+when the Wife said my Mother is DYING & ignored the stupid kid Cop+the Nurse+Security+the backup Cop! Get it?!?!?

  • This cop NEEDS to be fired. I HATE HIM!

  • Someone needs to beat the sh*t out of this cop. Good for nothing piece of garbage gives all police a bad name with this sick behavior.

  • I'm sure I can't imagine how Police Officers become so cynical.

  • This is what you get for hiring Barney Fife. Cops are not bad, it's just the few idiots who are power crazy that are. Seriously, he should loose his badge. Putting him on dispatch probably means he's going to annoy other cops about some obscure law and regulation. It is a major problem when hospital staff and another police officer have to intervene.

  • Police are trained to act in a certain way. People try to con them everyday. So I am tempted to give the cop a break. But it is true that the best cops are the ones with the best communication skills. Communication is really the name of the game. This cop did not seem to be listening.

  • Some cops think they God and u should obey them no matter what

  • if a family member of mine was dieing and i was right outside the hospital i would have just ran in gun pointed at me or not

  • Thats so sad, cops like these make others look bad. This is an isolated thing though. I say can powells ass and dont even let him be a security guard

  • Powell literally said "I can screw you over" so yeah, he should be canned. He acted unprofessionally, while Moats never used his NFL status to get out of the ticket. Sadly the only position he's probably qualified for is a security guard. If he does become one, it should be a mall, night shift, and he can't be armed at all.

  • Fuck Robert Powell,  good for nothing prick....

    The police, America's most dangerous "street gang"..

  • We all know the officer was wrong, but I think now we'll see a slew of people who've been pulled over for speeding claim that their mother-in-law is dying in a hospital just to get off and the cops will be more sensitive because of that dash cam! Then again we're not all NFL players after the fact, so maybe it wouldn't work.

  • Well, if everyone can get the nurses to come out and agree with them, then they deserve it imo.

  • It doesnt matter who it was if their saying goodbye leave the ticket on the winshield

  • it's so saddening.. a sorry is worth a person's last words

  • Typical retarded police actions. First they cause a giant whole in a family. And then what? They say their sorry? Wtf?

  • Fuck the Police

  • Yeah, yeah. Now he's sorry about what he did. Typical. If he arrested someone on some trumped up charge (like so many of these idiots do) and put them through the wringer, and he didn't get caught doing it, I don't think he'd be sorry at all. These guys are only sorry when they get caught red-handed, on tape, it get's heavily publicized, & they can't find any way out of their predicament. Otherwise, they're completely remorseless robots. This is the current state of the police forces in Amerika.

  • I wouldve told that punk b!tch to leave the ticket on the windshild wiper and kept on walking into the hospitol.

  • Is he sorry he stopped this guy from saying goodbye to his dying relative or is he sorry the guy he treated subhuman was a famous NFL star? Police need to treat all people with courtesy, dignity and respect. This is similar to the police beating up the girl at Reagan National Airport. Where is the compassion? Where is the decency?

  • oh, so now he's sorry, when before he thought he was doing exactly the right thing, no regrets.

  • The officer treated the person with suspicion and took the liberty, like all Capitalist police do, to assume they are trying to run away , and to assume that they are lying about their health, and to assume that they can safely be hassled in a hospital. The hypocritical society makes the police want to do this and it becomes a problem only when its damage is visible, like when a patient dies in a hospital. The officer becomes the scapegoat and the symbolic violence continues

  • I'm sorry, this is true and i agree.

  • Hey, the Western (Anglosaxon) society is full of these truth that are simply denied or ignored, except when I get to point them out in a video clip site. If you can't prove it when talking about it, you are labeled as a freak.

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  • I enjoy reading all of the hypocritical comments in this comment box. Everyone saying that he was only doing his job, seriously, get a grip. If this had happened to you, you'd want that cop to lose his job. Stop talking through your ass and actually use your brain for once in your life. Maybe everything will seem to be more clearer than before.

  • Traffic lights should go on blink after a certian time anyway. How many times I have sat at a light no one passed through the intersection in any direction sat there b/c Barney might have a telescope watching to make a stop. You risk getting carjacked sitting at a light. Ever ride in a police car I have as a witness to a wreck and the police fly down the road 100 plus mph coming and going to court they drive like they are insane all the time.

  • Police state motha fuka

    Wait till the cops have machine guns

  • If White men are to continue being policemen in Black communities, then they need to build better relationships with the people of those communities. If they don't then things will only worst.

  • That is sad. I don't see how being an "NFL Player" makes a difference, other than the fact that if it wasn't there probably wouldn't have been a formal and public apologuy.

    The policeman was just doing his job, but clearly overreacted. He shouldn't be fired, but he should be professionally admonished in some way.

  • rubbish.....u worthless!

  • she was 45,thats not old at all idiot,it's obvious you have no compassion

  • This officer is a wirthless human being!

  • Fire him.

    Have mercy on the United States judicial system.

    Fire him.

    Do not wait. This is out of control. Law is hard enough to enforce.

    Not everyone is cut from the cloth that makes a peace officer.

    Your man in Dallas did not come through the baptism by fire.

    Chief, I am talking to you. You career is ready to turn. Fire him. Find him a good job in the county or state. Please. Fire him.

  • Give the cop a job in Congress. He can hold his gun to American taxpayers heads and take all our money like the rest of the crooks in the house .

  • Burn that cop at the stake

  • You can't change the systemic problem if you focus on this one brainwashed cop. You must focus on the system that creates such distrust. Good report by the AP on this one though. Factual, and exemplary of the greater problem, this video shows the deeper dissatisfaction with these types of police procedures and misconduct.

  • FUCK YOU, Cunt Rag!

  • REALLY? i was expecting him to come out & say "so what?"

  • If the NFL player would of walked away*

  • I hope this scrub of a police officer is crucified by the media and he better lose his damn badge. There is NO excuse to act the way he did. He claims that he did everything by the book. Even in the police academy, you are taught to use YOUR OWN JUDGMENT. I'm just so sick of police using their badge as protection against everything. What would happen if the NFL would of walked away and then was tackled on the ground to be arrested? Would he be charged with resisting arrest? This is ridiculous.

  • He should have just kicked the everloving shit out of that pig. Make an example of him. Somebody's got to start with this sometime. We the people have to give them some fear for their very lives. I think it's working. We pay these motherfucker's salaries. We should make them tie our fucking shoes and do as we say. They should serve us, and they should be grateful and polite.

  • yah...just 'cos he's black, the cop was doing his job....black guy shot-gang related, white guy shot-tragedy, black vote obama-race, white vote obama-choice.....

    i hope u don't have a mom.....or your mom is immortal

    only youtube will give you the chance to behave this way

  • hey iAlwaysWin08? if your statement is saying to all of us that reads ur comment is defending the cop then u are not HUMAN..what if this happens to ur family member huh?? think before u speak.. because when i read ur comment the first question pop up was ..does this person have feelings??

  • my comments is exactly opposite to what u think....it's to a person who said the cop was doing his job....and i replied to him/her

  • Ummm.......the guy ran a red light......he deserves to get pulled over.........cops get a ton of bogus excuses and what does him being black have to do with it?

    What you're saying is he's black so don't pull him over because then the cops will seem racist?

  • But when the nurses come out and explain the exact same thing, you're supposed to remain stubborn?

  • No, I mean about just pulling him over is the right thing to do but the whole part about holding the guy back so long was wrong.

  • i saw this story on the news last night, and it broke my heart...i felt so bad for the guy.

  • oh my fucking god what a fucking douche bag...that could be his mother and he wouldn't let him go...

  • how can i get those dashcam videos?

  • i'm still trying to figure that one out WhoRonPaul lmao

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