Dallas cop 'makes death even worse' for NFL player David Edwards

Published: Friday March 27, 2009





Print This Email This A Dallas police officer is under investigation after he detained a NFL player who had been on his way to see a dying relative. Houston Texans running back Ryan Moats was rushing to the hospital to see his dying wife's mother. Dallas Officer Robert Powell refused to let Moats go into the hospital after running a red light. The relative died while Moats was held in the Hospital parking lot.



"The Moatses, who are black, said they can't help but think that race might have played a part in how Powell, who is white, treated them," the Associated Press reports.



"My mother-in-law is dying! Right now! You're wasting my time!" Moats reportedly screamed at the uninterested peace officer. "I don't understand why you can't understand that."



The officer is said to have responded, "Shut your mouth. You can either settle down and cooperate or I can just take you to jail for running a red light."



At a blog on The New York Times website, Lynn Zinser observes, "As if having your mother-in-law dying of breast cancer was not painful enough, Houston running back Ryan Moats had it made worse by a Dallas police officer who stopped him for running a red light near the hospital, would not listen to his pleas about the circumstances, drew his gun, threatened to arrest him and kept Moats in the parking lot while his mother-in-law died."



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