2nd person comes forward with complaint about Dallas officer

[rainbow4321]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/032909dnspo1athomas.3ecf949.html


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.

The charges that were dropped were failure to show proof of insurance, running a red light, having an improper address on a driver's license and not having a registration sticker on the windshield. She accepted deferred adjudication for the illegal U-turn charge, and her record will be cleared next month. In total, Maritza Thomas, who is Hispanic, was detained roughly five hours.

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Judge C. Victor Lander, the city of Dallas' chief municipal judge, said under Texas law a person can be arrested for any Class C misdemeanor citation except speeding and having an open container.

When an officer gives someone a traffic citation, it is in lieu of arrest, Lander said. The officer does have the option of making an arrest, he said.

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Guess this fits into the "go to jail" criteria he listed on his now shut down Xanga...

Saturday, October 21, 2006
You drink, You drive, You rear end another car, You dont speak english, You smell like alcohol, You cant stand up straight, You cant walk a straight line, You go to jail!!!

(OH...and the from the "I get to shoot people" column: When the driver's mother who spoke very little English tried to ask him not to take her daughter to jail...he unbunkled his gun HOLSTER in front of her.)


Monday, August 28, 2006
The count downs begin:
18 days of work then the real work starts and I can shoot people

[Bluzmann57]

1. Some people are just not fit to be cops

Most police officers do a good job and should be commended for putting their asses out there on the line everyday. And then there are those like this guy Powell seems to be. When I first heard about this story, my first thought was racism. But maybe it's not that simple. Maybe Powell is just not fit to be in law enforcement.

[rainbow4321]

5. "We are not going to go back and track everything this officer has done,"

per the DPD spokesperson (in the article)

Ummmm...I'm thinking NOW would be a good to go back and track..or are they afraid what they might find????


Per the article they will address anything that the public brings to them about interactions that they had with the officer. But why wait on that?? Especially since he admitted in that video to the Plano officer that he once "worded" a report a certain way so as to justify a car chase.
They need to be going thru every piece of paperwork that fool has ever handed in. Or are they just going to wait for a lawsuit from the Moats' family and try to settle out of court so they can avoid his past paperwork/reports from surfacing??

[Mariana]

6. Since he's admitted to filing a false report

then every report he has ever filed is suspect, as well as every word of testimony he's uttered in court. EVERY case he's been involved in should be reviewed in the greatest detail.

[Fumesucker]

2. A member of my family was a long term police officer, high ranking..

He and I agreed that police work changes a lot of people for the worse, there are a lot of people that shouldn't ever be cops and a lot that shouldn't remain cops for too long.

[acmavm]

3. What a douche bag. Amazing that so many of these Die Hard wannabes

pass the psychological testing.

[notadmblnd]

4. must not be a very hard test.

:shrug: