Officer delayed NFL player as relative died

[Blue_Tires]

PLANO, Texas -- A Dallas police officer who delayed Houston Texans' running back Ryan Moats from visiting his mother-in-law before she died in a Plano hospital has been reassigned to dispatch pending an investigation.

Moats, his wife and other family members rushed from their suburban Dallas home to Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano during the early hours of March 18 after getting word around midnight that Moats' mother-in-law, Jonetta Collinsworth, was dying. She had breast cancer.

According to Dallas-area media reports, Moats' vehicle, which rolled through a red light, was stopped by Officer Robert Powell in the hospital's parking lot.

Powell kept Moats and another family member for 13 minutes, threatening Moats with arrest and lecturing him. By the time Moats was released and entered the hospital, Jonetta Collinsworth had died.

Dallas police have dropped the ticket.

The Moatses, who are black, said Wednesday that they can't help but think that race may have played a role in how Powell, who is white, treated them.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4017382

[madaboutharry]

1. Dupe.

Someone else just posted this in Late Breaking News.

[Blue_Tires]

2. yeah, i see i'm slow because it's in GD as well

MODS: please close or merge

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. I have a question about that. People tend to hang around certain forums

and not participate in all of them, because there's just not enough time in the day.

I have no problem with something being in Latest, General, and if appropriate GD-P. There's lots of cross-posting from different forums and I think that's as it should be.

[madaboutharry]

4. That is a good point.

But, it seems that cross checking is encouraged by the mods. I suppose I usually stay on the Latest page, so I am seeing everything all at once. When you are looking at the Latest page, it can be annoying to see the same topic posted over and over in different forums. Also, the discussions themselves don't fully develop.

I don't know what to think about this, you do make a valid point.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

5. I love to read Latest as my news source

since they are so strict about that (which is a good thing).

But sometimes a new story is just a jump off point for a broader discussion of some fact within the story. Sometimes that are multiple points within a story that all might deserve their own thread, and that would never happen if it were just confined to Latest or you have every thread have a bazillion responses and subthreads that you couldn't keep up with.

Now, I think very close duplicates of the same topic within a short time frame in the same forum should be combined. It's irritating to have to jump around 3 threads at the same time discussing the same thing. But, if some time has passed and that intial thread has dropped way back or killed itself off for whatever reason, I see nothing wrong with someone bringing up the topic in a new thread. Most of the time, you don't even know that there is an existing thread.

Anyway, I don't envy the mods.

Cheers!

[Ghost in the Machine]

6. It's NOT a "dupe" if it's posted in a different forum...

I spend 99% of my time here in General Discussion. I usually don't visit the other forums, except for the 9/11 forum, unless one of my posts is moved, or if I'm redirected there by a link from here in GD. I'm sure there are *many* more like me...


:hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Yep,

:hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Common sense and I can see both sides

On the one hand running a red is the MOST dangerous infraction due to the risk of accidents...

On the other... well officer could have waited given the circumstances or given them a warning... as in don't do that again (a minute or two after establishing why, and let them go)

As to race playing a role in this? Does the sun rise in the morning? Unfortunately in the US race plays a role in our every day lives