Cops are out of hand EVERYWHERE!

We often see headlining stories about police misconduct in the bigger metro cities like Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, even Miami...but this story comes out of Dallas and I can't help but to think, are cops just out of their damn minds everywhere!

Check out the unedited dash-cam footage here ---> http://www.wfaa.com/video/featured-index.html?nvid=345766&shu=1

I'm not gonna copy the story b/c you can just look it up online...but the short version is NFL running back Ryan Moats and his family were stopped right outside of a Plano, TX hospital after Moats ran a red light...mind you, he was en route w/ his family to be by the bedside of his dying mother-in-law...this cop, Robert Powell, detained them outside of the hospital in the parking lot...he proceeded to badger and threaten Moats...the sad thing is this officer took away a moment that that family can never get back (Moats' mother-in-law passed while the altercation was going on)

As of a press date today, the officer has offered a bogus apology (of course at the advisement of his lawyers) and has been placed on paid administrative leave...an investigation has ensuded...the Dallas PD has been overwhelmed with phone calls and emails from both the Dallas area and people outraged across the country...the family is seeking justice for the treatment...the term "racial profiling" has been thrown into the mix too

Now this is my personal opinion...w/in the 1st 3 minutes of the dash cam footage, Ryan Moats clearly states his understandable reason for running the light...altho he's not in the line of view of the dash cam until later, you can clearly him say that he waited and saw no traffic coming in any direction before he ran the red light...there is no threat or angst in his voice, despite the immense emotional pressure he's assumably under...police officers have discretion, that's 1 of the 1st things they learn in the academy...and seeing as the officer followed Moats to the hospital, he very well could've let him slide and go be by his wife and her family's side in their time of grief...but as usual, this is a classic example of an officer utilizing his range of power to humiliate and ostracize the very people he took an oath to protect and serve

The officer's language and demeanor is just disgusting...he was condescending, disrespectful, and then he blatantly threatened Moats (he says how he could cuff Moats and really screw him over)...keep in mind, all of this is happening, while the man's mother in law is dying...Moats was so much calmer than most of us would've been


To this, all I can say is thank God for dash-cams...b/c had this exchange not been caught on tape, it'd be the officer's word against Moats...and you know how that would've turned out...my prayers goes out to the Moats family and I hope they take whatever legal/civil action they can