Warp6
Mine since '92
- Joined
- May 25, 2001
FOX Sports on MSN - NFL - Cop prevented RB from being with dying relative Anyone see this story? Pretty incredible.
Who cares!
Change the title to this post. It should read. NFL runningback prevented himself from being with dying mother-in-law.
Sentimentality aside. The guy broke the law. Was the officer unprofessional? Yeah maybe he was impolite with how he was addressing the guy but not for what he done. Video doesn't prove everything and this one has been edited. The article said he was detained for 14 minutes, the video is only about 3 1/2 minutes long so no one here knows the whole story. With all the people running around who even knows how many people were in the vehicle. Everyone around here is so quick to jump on the "Bash-a-Cop" bandwagon it's pathetic. An officer's responsibility is to the public safety and his goal is to do his job and go home safely at the end of his shift. The only reason this officer is on leave is for the get out of jail free mentality that is awarded to celebrities and athletes by today's society.
How could it have been different? Simple solution would have been to not run the red light. Time: 2 minutes for the light to change. Driver mistake one.
Run the red light but stop as soon as he was lighted up and calmly explain what was going on. The officer would have probably been more understanding and may have let him go. Time: total of maybe 5 minutes. Driver mistake two.
Run the red light, refuse to stop for the officer, continue to drive for more than an additional minute, pull up to the door of a hospital and everybody in the vehicle bails out and starts walking in different directions. Two large guys start arguing with the officer and become belligerent and uncooperative and think that their right to do what they want to do is greater than their duty to obey the law. Time: 14 minutes. The officer's fault. Yeah, that's it, it's his fault.
Who cares!