What do you think of the cops.That stopped that football player.From seeing his dying mother in law.?

mmzznnxx

Cops in general are just too self-indulged and are always on a power trip. And I feel bad for the good cops out there, however few there may be, just trying to do a good job and maintain peace. But I'm personally sick of police officers that threaten to "toss you in jail" for asking questions or something along those lines for some "awful" offense like going 5 mph over the limit.

jack99skellington

Was he breaking the law? Then I say good for them. "Thank you for doing your duty". "Glad that someone knows that the law doesn't apply just to regular folks".

Probably something like that.

Girl

This whole situation is unfortunate.

sunstarr # 3

That's BS. What man cares about seeing his dying mother-in-law? THis is the media's attempt to blame whitey once again.

thunder2sys

If he broke the law then he should have been stopped. Being a football player has nothing to do with it.

EddyJ

It was a single officer not officers and secondly, th officer did nothing wrong other than make a comment about screwing a guy over but, that could mean anything. The man ran a red light putting other drivers and themselves in danger. Yes, the mother dying is a sad thing. What is even more tragic is if running that red light killed a young family of four. Yes it is possible and happens everyday in this country.

Could the cop have handled the situation better? Yes. However, they are human and make mistakes and bad decisions. Always have and always will.

Should he be fired? Based on what I read not only no but, he** no. If anything he should be commended for possibly saving lives that day.

Unfortunately, because the story made the news and the person involved is a famous football player the officer may indeed be fired or at least suspended unjustly. Most of today's departments refuse to stand by their officers whether they did anything wrong or not. Just once, I would like to see a major department spokesperson say our officer was absolutely correct and we support them 100% in the highly publicize cases.

Why is it every time you hear of a cop making a mistake or using bad judgement the first thing people want to do is fire the officer and ruin there lives? If we fired every officer for making a bad decision we would have no police officers. In fact if we fired everyone who ever made a mistake on the job we would have a 100% unemployment rate.

No one has ever been thrown in jail because they messed up. They were thrown in jail because they broke the law. That is why they lost their jobs.
Exactly what law did this young brave officer break. That's right none. He possibly made a bad judgement call as I am sure you have on the job. Maybe you too should be fired.

Incidentally, every time a officer puts on the badge and goes to work he is sticking up for Joe and Jane Public. Sadly many times, this leads to an officer's death. When was the last time Joe Public lost his life sticking up for an officer?

madart

This was total bs and that guy should not be a police officer.

Rock Firestorm

Boy, this question doesn't get old every five minutes.

Teresa

Some of these answers surprise and scare me at the same time. This guy never even told the policeman that he was a NFL Player, so what does that have to do with anything? No matter if this guy is a NFL athlete or not he should have been shown some compassion by someone who is supposed to help those in need.

Also, the problem with this story is that it moves us backwards. It gives people the opportunity to yell racism when it clearly was not. the cop had no way of knowing the race of the vehicleâ€™s occupants. Now because this cop is clearly stupid and has no common sense that department will be plagued and the good officers will have to suffer.

Every time a good officer makes a legitimate stop, the occupant can make up some ridiculous excuse and that officer will have to second guess himself in fear that he will be called a racist. Everyone is not cutout to be a cop and I think this guy should really reconsider his employment choice.

cratchet_fling

Hang 'em

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