BTW – A serious note… y’all take a look at this story on HonestLoneStar’s blog.
http://www.texasdiscussion.com/2009/…mother-in-law/
I’d planned on addressing it on my blog already, but it’s a story about an idiot Dallas Police officer (Robert Powell) who decided to let a guy that broke some traffic laws rushing to the hospital for his wife’s mom’s dying moments spend those moments being harassed about running a red light.
Talk about abuse of power
This officer should have his picture in the dictionary beside the phrase.
Here is the news report including THE DASHCAM VIDEO.
A Bully with Anger Issues – “I can screw you over…”
The officer drew his weapon on the desperate flustered man and his wife for running a red light. The wife ignored the idiot and went into the hospital. The husband remained below as the officer screamed at him, said “I can screw you over”, threatened to jail him for running the red light, threatened to jail him for not being able to locate proof-of-insurance (the officer could have checked himself, they now have computer access to the database), told the man “Shut your mouth!”, and in general acted like a bully with anger issues instead of a public servant.
Lack of Discretion, Judgment, or Human Decency
Common sense dictated letting the guy go up to the hospital room. Several nurses and a Plano cop begged the officer to do that, assuring the officer that the patient the guy came to see was dying even as events unfolded… but he persisted. The mother-in-law DIED while the guy was downstairs being screamed at by this idiot who should never have given handed a badge and a gun. There is a responsibility that comes with the job, and this guy doesn’t get it.
Watch the Dash Video
After I saw it, like pretty much everyone else here I found the officers actions to be ridiculous, asinine, inhumane, pedantic, and contemptible. I support the police in the performance of their duties, I do not however support giving guns and badges to immature bullies with anger issues and a total lack of sense or compassion.
Dallas Police Chief Kunkel
Chief Kunkel is a local guy from Hurst, graduated from Bell a few years before I got outta local rival Trinity. Given his background you know he was raised to believe this kinda behavior is wrong. This officer simultaneously reinforced pretty much every negative stereotype about policemen that exists, and his fellow officers don’t deserve to be tarred by his brush.
It isn’t good for the department to have Powell out there. He demeans the badge, and it is a violation of their commitment to public safety to allow a little bully with anger issues and zero judgment running around with a badge and a gun abusing people under color of law. I have no doubt Chief Kunkel will give his actions the appropriate due diligence, then unceremoniously return the little bully to the ranks of the public he obviously holds in such contempt.
Rob Jones for President 
The behavior of this police officer is completely reprehensible. It frankly frightens me that this man, and – don’t doubt it – many others like him, are walking around with guns and badges. Mull this one over… if no video evidence of the incident had been made public, you and I (and most of the general public) would have sided with the police officer and given him the benefit of the doubt. He would have written up a report saying that the detainee was “uncooperative,” and that would have been the end of the story, case closed. That should send a little shiver up your spine to imagine.
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Actually the thought occurred to me that this officer KNOWS the dash-cam is running while behaving in this fashion.
If this is how he acts when he knows he is on camera, how would he act when he knows nobody can see him?
He just appears to be one of those people that sought out the job for all the wrong reasons.
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