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TexasWSP 03-30-2009 10:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Hoodini (Post 1795024)
Bleh...he's lucky he's an NFL player.

an average dude like me would be in court now, waiting to pay a ticket.
Did you watch the video or read the story? Shit man.

Lucky? He missed the chance to give his last words to his dying mother in law because of a piece of shit cop on a power trip. I'm sure that no-ticket just makes it all better.

....and the Chief of Dallas Police made it a point to recognize the fact that Moats never once made an attempt to use his NFL status as a means to get out of the situation.

epchick 03-30-2009 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by TexasWSP (Post 1795619)
Did you watch the video or read the story? Shit man.

Lucky? He missed the chance to give his last words to his dying mother in law because of a piece of shit cop on a power trip. I'm sure that no-ticket just makes it all better.

....and the Chief of Dallas Police made it a point to recognize the fact that Moats never once made an attempt to use his NFL status as a means to get out of the situation.
Exactly. Not to mention that Moat's wife was the first to step out of the car, and the cop pulled his gun out on her.

Going through a red light is serious, but it's not like it doesn't happen all the time. It doesn't require the police officer to point his gun at anyone.

When another police officer & a nurse went out to validate Moat's story, that should have been the end of it...but noooo, the douchebag police officer kept on it.

DaemonSeid 03-30-2009 11:27 PM
However, it was somewhat of a coincidence that Moats WAS an NFL player.

Question: If Moats was an ordinary man (which is what he was treated like) with no claim to fame or whatever, would we still have heard about this story?

KSigkid 03-30-2009 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid (Post 1795537)
DALLAS — Maritza Thomas, the wife of NFL linebacker Zach Thomas, saw a familiar face as she watched the video of Officer Robert Powell detaining Houston Texans [team stats] running back Ryan Moats as he and his family rushed to a hospital to see a dying loved one. That face was Powell’s.

On July 27, 2008, while her husband was at training camp with the Cowboys in Oxnard, Calif., Maritza Thomas was pulled over by Powell for an illegal U-turn near NorthPark Center.

Maritza Thomas was issued five tickets by Powell, four of which were later dismissed. Thomas was handcuffed, placed in the back of a police cruiser, spent about three hours in the Dallas County Jail and was threatened with the possibility of spending the night behind bars.




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Regardless of my last post, I'll say that this doesn't surprise me. If this guy is guilty of these allegations, hopefully he will be fired.

epchick 03-30-2009 11:31 PM
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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid (Post 1795627)
However, it was somewhat of a coincidence that Moats WAS an NFL player.

Question: If Moats was an ordinary man (which is what he was treated like) with no claim to fame or whatever, would we still have heard about this story?
Hmmmm...probably not. Well, we might have heard the story (as much as I hate to say it) if Moats had been white.

wolffootball37 04-01-2009 12:04 PM
This happened right by my house. Yeah im really sickened by this. I would of expected this by the Plano Police (asshats), not the Dallas Police.

DaemonSeid 04-01-2009 03:53 PM
Powell calls it quits

Smart man.

JKenny 04-02-2009 08:24 PM
Something similar just happened in Memphis, apparently a Cop stopped this guy while he was rushing his mom to the hospital, and basically she died in the back of the car because the cop refused to let them leave, If I were that cop I probably would've have provided escort to the hospital for him

AGDee 04-02-2009 11:35 PM
There was a lady in a Detroit suburb who was pulled over while in labor. The police didn't believe that she was in labor and arrested her for resisting an officer or something like that. At some point, while she was in the jail cell, they finally accepted that she really was in labor. It was several years and I don't remember if she had the baby at the jail, in the ambulance or after she got to the hospital, but it was huge news around here at the time. The cops were in big trouble for that one.


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