Dallas police delayed NFL player as relative died

[Kadie]

Dallas police delayed NFL player as relative died

Thursday, March 26, 2009

(03-26) 11:53 PDT Plano, Texas (AP) --

A police officer pulled over an NFL player rushing to see his dying mother-in-law, drew his gun, threatened the player with jail and held him in the hospital parking lot as she died, officials said Thursday.

Officer Robert Powell told his commanders he drew his gun but did not point it, Dallas police spokesman Lt. Andy Harvey said. That was disputed by the wife of Houston Texans running back Ryan Moats.

"He was pointing a gun at me as soon as I got out of the car," Tamishia Moats told The Dallas Morning News, which first reported that Powell unholstered his sidearm.

The Moats family did not return messages left by The Associated Press.

Powell, who has been reassigned to desk duty, stopped Moats' SUV outside Baylor Regional Medical Center during the early hours of March 18 after Moats rolled through a red light. Moats and his family had gotten a call saying his mother-in-law was dying.

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He ordered Tamishia Moats to get back in the SUV, but she ignored him and rushed inside the hospital to see her mother, Jonetta Collinsworth, 45, and was by her side when she died a short time later. She had breast cancer.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/26/national/a072454D28.DTL&tsp=1

[rucky]

1. DWB

a crime punishable by death

[ecstatic]

2. disgusting

And I'm sure it happens all the time just that now they picked on someone with press access.