Most of our Men (and Women) In Blue™ are honorable folk who want nothing more than to serve the public at large.  They’re salt of the earth people who’d give you the shirts of their backs if they thought it would help.  (And some of my family have served, so I know whereof I speak.)
Then we have assholes like Robert Powell.
During the traffic stop, caught on the officer’s in-car camera, Powell berated the driver, 26-year-old NFL running back 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.”
There’s a helluva analogy I could make here, if I didn’t think I’d have a SWAT team busting down my door shortly thereafter – so I’d rather not do that.
Moats’ mother-in-law, Jonetta Collinsworth, was struggling at 45 with breast cancer that had spread throughout her body. Family members rushed to her bedside from as far away as California.
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.
Now, most  of Dallas’ Finest™ would have, upon learning of the situation, allowed the family to proceed, and dealt with any incurred infractions later.  And of that subset of Dallas officers, an overwhelming majority would have let a minor thing like running a light pass – particularly in light of the mitigating circumstances.
Not widdle Nazi Bobbi, though.
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.
That probably would have given widdle Bobbi a widdle ol’ stiffie, y’know?
But that’s not the hell of it, though, Denizens.  This fuckface still  doesn’t think he did anything wrong!
Powell was hired in January 2006. Assistant Chief Floyd Simpson said Powell told police officials that he believed that he was doing his job.
Oh?  So his job involves making an already shitty day for someone, about as bad as things can normally get during an average day, just that much worse?  And then just claim that he was just “doing his job”?
Now, the top of the above-linked article has Dallas police chief David Kunkle apologizing for Officer Powertrip Powell’s actions.  Somehow, it rings a little hollow RightAboutNow™, y’know?
On the Dallas Police Department’s web page, they promise  us that
The men and women of the Dallas Police Department will work with the citizens of Dallas to provide the highest level of quality, professional service that the City of Dallas deserves.
You’ll understand if, just for this one night, I call bullshit.
Pardon me, guys.  I can’t say anything more.  There’s an RCOB covering my eyes at the moment. 
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