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What would you do if your got a call that your mother or your mother in law was about to die in the hospital? Most people would haul ass to get there before she died right? Now lets say you are a police officer and you see a car run the light. You pull them over in front of the hospital and they tell you that their mother or there mother in law is about to die and that is why they are rushing. What would you do?


Well THIS is exactly what I would hope you wouldn't do. I wish I could embed the video so you didn't have to click the link to see it but I hope that you go and watch every single second of it and put yourself in the shoes of the man whose mother in law was dying just a few yards away in the hospital as this bitch ass cop first points a gun and him at his family and then gives him a lectures and then takes his time writing up a ticket even when hospital personel confirmed that his mother in law was in fact close to death.

From the article in the Dallas Morning News

Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle stood in front of a dozen news cameras this afternoon at police headquarters to apologize for the behavior of an officer who stopped a family outside a hospital emergency room.

Kunkle said Officer Robert Powell has been placed on paid administrative leave in connection with an incident last week in which he stopped a family rushing to visit a dying mother, detaining them for 13 minutes to write a traffic ticket.

“His behavior in my opinion, did not exhibit the common sense, discretion, the compassion that we expect our officers to exhibit,” the chief told a packed audience of media outlets that included Inside Edition.

During the traffic stop, caught on the officer’s in-car camera, Powell berated the driver, 26-year-old Ryan Moats, and threatened him with arrest for running a traffic light.

“I can screw you over,” said Powell, 25. “I’d rather not do that.”

At one point during today’s news conference, Kunkle seemed to restrain himself from being even more candid with his views on the incident.

“When we in the command staff reviewed the tapes,” he said, “we were embarrassed, disappointed — it’s hard to find the right words and still be professional in my role as a police chief.”

The chief also praised Moats and his family for how they handled the officer’s behavior.

“They exercised extraordinary patience, restraint, dealing with the behavior of our officer,” Kunkle said. He handled himself very, very well.”

Moats rolled through a red light as he and his wife were en route to Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano. A Dallas police squad car pulled their SUV over near the hospital's emergency entrance.

Moats and his wife implored the officer to let them hurry on to the bedside of her ill mother.

“You really want to go through this right now?” Moats pleaded. “My mother-in-law is dying. Right now!”

His wife, Tamishia Moats, said Powell "was pointing a gun at me as soon as I got out of the car. It was the weirdest feeling because I’ve never had a gun pointed at me before under those circumstances.”

Powell then spent long minutes writing Moats a ticket and threatening him with arrest.

Powell could not be reached for comment.

Kunkle, asked about Powell’s reaction to the investigation, said the officer told a member of the command staff that he was just doing his job.

“My understanding is that Officer Powell, even when he saw the videotape, believed he had not acted inappropriately," Kunkle said.

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On March 17, the Moatses had gone to their Frisco home to get some rest. Around midnight, they received word that they needed to hurry back to the hospital if they wanted to see Collinsworth before she died.

The couple, along with Collinsworth’s father and an aunt, jumped into the SUV and headed back toward the hospital. They exited the Dallas North Tollway, just down the street from the hospital.

Moats turned on his hazard lights. He stopped at a red light, where, he said, the only nearby motorist signaled for him to go ahead. He went through.

Powell, watching traffic from a hidden spot, flipped on his lights and sirens. In less than a minute, he caught up to the SUV and followed for about 20 more seconds as Moats found a parking spot outside the emergency room.

Tamishia, 27, was the first out. Powell drew his gun and yelled at her to get back in.

“Get in there!” he yelled. “Let me see your hands!”

“My mom is dying,” she explained to him.

Powell was undeterred.

“I saw in his eyes that he really did not care,” Tamishia Moats said. “Honestly, I don’t think I cared that he had a gun pointed at me. My train of thought is that I’m going to see my mom in the hospital before she dies.”

Tamishia Moats and her great-aunt ignored the officer and headed into the hospital.

“It was almost like a movie,” she said, “It felt like we had robbed a bank or something.”

Ryan Moats, who stayed behind with the father of the dying woman, said Powell also pointed his gun at him. He said he put his hands on the car because he was afraid that he might get shot.

“I put my hands on the car so he couldn’t say I reached for something,” Ryan said. “He didn’t ask me to put my hands on the car. I just did it to try to protect myself. I was pleading with him.”

He tried to explain the situation to the officer.

“I waited until no traffic was coming,” Moats told Powell, explaining his passage through the red light. “I got seconds before she’s gone, man.”

Powell demanded his license and proof of insurance. Moats produced his license but said he didn’t know where the insurance paperwork was.

“Just give me a ticket or whatever,” he said, beginning to sound exasperated and a little argumentative.

“Shut your mouth,” Powell told him. “You can cooperate and settle down, or I can just take you to jail for running a red light.”

There was more back and forth.

“If you’re going to give me a ticket, give me a ticket.”

“Your attitude says that you need one.”

“All I’m asking you is just to hurry up.”

Powell began a lecture.

“If you want to keep this going, I’ll just put you in handcuffs,” the officer said, “and I’ll take you to jail for running a red light.”

Powell made several more points, including that the SUV was illegally parked. Moats replied “Yes sir” to each.

“Understand what I can do,” Powell concluded. “I can tow your truck. I can charge you with fleeing. I can make your night very difficult.”

“I understand,” Moats responded. “I hope you’ll be a great person and not do that.”

Hospital security guards arrived and told Powell that the Moatses’ relative really was upstairs dying.

Powell spent several minutes inside his squad car, in part to check Moats for outstanding warrants. He found none.

Another hospital staffer came out and spoke with a Plano police officer who had arrived.

“Hey, that’s the nurse,” the Plano officer told Powell. “She said that the mom’s dying right now, and she’s wanting to know if they can get him up there before she dies.”

“All right,” Powell replied. “I’m almost done.”

As Moats signed the ticket, Powell continued his lecture.

“Attitude’s everything,” he said. “All you had to do is stop, tell me what was going on. More than likely, I would have let you go.”

It had been about 13 minutes.

Moats and Collinsworth’s father went into the hospital, where they found Collinsworth had died, with her daughter at her side.

Honestly I wish I had the words to describe the rage that enveloped me watching that video. If I could see that cop right now I would crush him. There should be some kind of fucking common decency between human beings that trancends being a cop. And just to know that this sorry ass muthafucka still believes he did nothing wrong, seriously I have no words. He should lose the priviledge forever of being able to wear a uniform and a gun. And honestly that should be the least of his worries.

Now the post cript to the story of course is that Ryan Moats, the man whose mother in law died, is also an NFL football player. But that really doesn't even matter in this incident when you think about it does it?

Don't Let The Door Hit You

So the New York Times has published aa an op-ed a letter of resignation sent to the CEO of AIG Edward Liddy from an executive in the AIG Financial Products section by the name of Jake DeSantis. I guess it was published in order for make all of us feel bad for calling the members of that division of AIG bad names and because the House of Representative passed a bill taxing the retention bonuses that the employees in that division recieved recently.

Personally I hope MORE of these assholes quit. AIG has been at the center of our finacial collapse and in particular the AIGFP unit has acted recklessly and unethically all in the name of greed and put our entire financial system in peril of collapsing. Resigning is the least this clown could do but what I really hope is that eventually he and all of his collegues are prosecuted for the fraud they perpetrated on the world. Let me excerpt the really relevant part of the pile of bullshit contained in his resignation letter.

You’ve now asked the current employees of A.I.G.-F.P. to repay these earnings. As you can imagine, there has been a tremendous amount of serious thought and heated discussion about how we should respond to this breach of trust.

As most of us have done nothing wrong, guilt is not a motivation to surrender our earnings. We have worked 12 long months under these contracts and now deserve to be paid as promised. None of us should be cheated of our payments any more than a plumber should be cheated after he has fixed the pipes but a careless electrician causes a fire that burns down the house.

Many of the employees have, in the past six months, turned down job offers from more stable employers, based on A.I.G.’s assurances that the contracts would be honored. They are now angry about having been misled by A.I.G.’s promises and are not inclined to return the money as a favor to you.

The only real motivation that anyone at A.I.G.-F.P. now has is fear. Mr. Cuomo has threatened to “name and shame,” and his counterpart in Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, has made similar threats — even though attorneys general are supposed to stand for due process, to conduct trials in courts and not the press.

So what am I to do? There’s no easy answer. I know that because of hard work I have benefited more than most during the economic boom and have saved enough that my family is unlikely to suffer devastating losses during the current bust. Some might argue that members of my profession have been overpaid, and I wouldn’t disagree.

That is why I have decided to donate 100 percent of the effective after-tax proceeds of my retention payment directly to organizations that are helping people who are suffering from the global downturn. This is not a tax-deduction gimmick; I simply believe that I at least deserve to dictate how my earnings are spent, and do not want to see them disappear back into the obscurity of A.I.G.’s or the federal government’s budget. Our earnings have caused such a distraction for so many from the more pressing issues our country faces, and I would like to see my share of it benefit those truly in need.

On March 16 I received a payment from A.I.G. amounting to $742,006.40, after taxes. In light of the uncertainty over the ultimate taxation and legal status of this payment, the actual amount I donate may be less — in fact, it may end up being far less if the recent House bill raising the tax on the retention payments to 90 percent stands. Once all the money is donated, you will immediately receive a list of all recipients.

This muthafucka complains about the fact that employees of the company didn't take jobs with other more stable companies to stay with AIG without any hint of self awareness that HE AND HIS CRONIES ARE THE ONES WHO MADE AIG UNSTABLE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! Are we REALLY supposed to feel bad for this douchebag when he just got a bonus of damn near a million dollars working for a company that took over $150 billion dollars in taxpayer money? Is that REALLY how he thought it would go down? Well allow me to express my sentiments after reading this letter.

FUCK YOU JAKE DESANTIS AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON!!!

Nobody is buying your "I was going to give it to charity" bullshit. Right now AIG is the biggest frikkin charity in this country. If you are so concerned about people who are struggling then give the damn money back to the company so those people won't have to contribute quite as much to a company that you and your buddies helped to cripple. You say you earned a bonus, well I woud say that its more likely you earned a jail cell and a visit from Bubba. Man I hope that some of these fools get brought back down to earth so they can see what its like to live like a "normal" person. You won't find many tears shed over your resignation Mr. Desantis, in point of fact that sound you might be hearing faintly in the distance is more likely to be cheers. Good luck trying to find a job when nobody wants to touch your toxic ass.