Officer Robert Powell

Powell will cost Dallas $$$$$ with his cowboy ways if he doesn't learn. All he had to do was walk inside with his ticket book and write as he watched the mother-in-law die, or if lied to, load the liar. I was home when the hospital called that my mom had suddenly turn critical and was dying. I stopped at every red light, and looked, no traffic, I BUSTED THE LIGHT. My plan was to give any officer stopping me I D and tell him to write me at the hospital. I didn't meet an Office Powell, and was with mom when he died. The guy has no heart and someday Karma is going to slap him in the face. Those of you defending him, are wrong, he did stupid and it is on tape. But the most troubling, he did all this with the video/audio running. TALK ABOUT STUPID. Dallas, you need to check I Q's a lot better before letting them on the street.

I am a police office in Florida as well. I have 28 years on the job. After watching the video and listening to the conversations I can't see how ANYONE with ANY common sense can justify this behavior by this officer. His four ways are flashing, he stops at the red lights and when there is NO TRAFFIC he proceeds, he pulls into a HOSPITAL parking lot. Everyone is excited trying to tell him the situation. You have his DL. Escort him inside and verify what the man is telling you. You are a freaking IDIOT and I only hope they FIRE your ass because you have no common sense and do not deserve to be police officer ANYWHERE. Dallas guys you owe this retard a "blanket party" on his way out the door. He may be a nice guy but he makes all of us in Law Enforcement look bad.

I'm retired police officer from Florida and I agree with everything you said with the exception of the blanket party.

Sorry, kids, but that's what you sound like. Some of you have no clue what your job is about. If those of you defending this stop can't understand that along with your duty to enforce the law is the duty to use common sense and discretion you don't need to be wearing a badge.

Moates ran his emergency flashers. His flashers were on when the stop was initiated. How many felony offenders are going to run from you and use flashers while they're running? He pulled up to the front door to a hospital. How many felony offenders are going to stop there (don't forget, he ran a red light with his emergeny flashers activated, 4 blocks from the hospital, not running 100 mph, wife jumps out to run into the hospital when they pull up next to the door). What my fellow Florida officer failed to mention, or didn't see because he didn't watch the video, is that Moates never told the officer who he was. This had nothing to do with a rich athelete trying to use his position to get out of a ticket. It has to do with an officer using extremely poor judgement in a situation that should have been apparent to him. If it wasn't apparent in the beginning it should have been when a hospital nurse and an officer from another agency tried to tell him that the "offender" was telling the truth and that his mother in law was dying. This officer STILL detained Moates, wrote him the ticket, then proceeded to lecture him while his mother in law died.

If my fellow Florida officers don't see this, you don't need jobs either.

I'm retired police officer from Florida and I agree with everything you said with the exception of the blanket party.

Sorry, kids, but that's what you sound like. Some of you have no clue what your job is about. If those of you defending this stop can't understand that along with your duty to enforce the law is the duty to use common sense and discretion you don't need to be wearing a badge.

Well put and totally agreed with. Most of the officers commenting are probably children and are no more ready to patrol the streets then Powell. In police work discretion is the key, and here in Florida as a rule we don’t write other policemen, their family members, or EMS personnel unless the offense is totally egregious. Sorry running a red light with your hazards on, does not qualify.
What’s worse, they pulled up to the front door of a hospital and this idiot never asked if they were having some type of emergency. I guess if they had a sick or injured child inside of the car, he would have let them lay there and die while he wrote a ticket. Right is right and wrong is wrong and in this case, he is defiantly wrong. You guys know that, you’re just blinded by your frail egos and emotions.

.... Reckless drivers and people who have no respect for Traffic control devices as well Police lights and sirens are a menece to society.
Reckless drivers are a menace to society? So I guess rapist, murderers, pedophiles, burglars, drug dealers, and robbers are what, just slightly inconvenient? You’re an idiot at best and the sad reality, you’re probably a police officer and that is scary. I know this may shock you, but you probably get lied to everyday, it still doesn’t mean you shouldn’t show compassion in fear of it.

As a result of this debacle, the officer has resigned, his department has been disgraced and every idiot that we stop can now claim to be having some major emergency. This will now force us to waste time verifying their truthfulness just to avoid a complaint. Just had to write that ticket huh? Yeah I can see a traffic ticket being worth all that!

Bottom line is that officer Robert Powell failed to use common sense. Besides karma is a real mother in the end. The civilian did nothing wrong and did not identify himself as a football player, he only stated that he was in a hurry to his mother in law. The video speaks volumes and shows no compassion or common sense from ex officer Robert Powell.

Robert Powell, you did the right thing brother...dont let your spineless, balless political scum chief drive you down ! Mr. Football star could have been arrested for eluding and felony wreckless driving in florida....how bout that for sympathy. :twisted: The entire family of Mr. Football star should have been by the dying family member bed side instead of eating shitza elsewhere. Anyways, the grass aint greener anywhere because this career has filled up with people that were just looking for a secure pay check.

I love how the police officers here talk bad about the football players driving, yet, I constantly see police officers breaking the same traffic laws they issue citations for. I'm not talking about responding to a call, but hurrying for lunch somewhere or just being an awful driver. No wonder people hate the police.