Quote Originally Posted by Spicoli surfs 'Nawlins View Post
They are showing this on CNN right now.They'd have to shoot me,tazz me or gaffle me.What an absolute display of idiocy.I think its a case of stereo typing and predjudice...hope that dick head can live with himself!!He was in no threat and the cop should have put his humanity and situational judgment ahead of the badge and bureaucracy.
He definitely deserves criticism for his manner but what else do you think he shouldn't have done?

I mean he had to follow the car and talk to the driver right, that's his job, there's no way he can know they are jumping a light to get to a dying woman on time.

And once there he still had to get the insurance details from the driver, again that's his job.

He shouldn't have given them a ticket or talk to them the way he did but even giving them a ticket was just his job.

It's easy to say he should just exercise his own judgement but what if his judgement was wrong? What if they had stolen the car and then after getting flashed for jumping a light they decide to head for the hospital and claim someone is dying hoping the cop will let them go without checking any for any insurance, ID etc. I guarantee if there was an extreme the other way where a man abducted a child and ran a light, was flashed by police and so drove to a hospital and said 'The girls mum is dying' to the cop and so he just let him go without asking for ID, insurance or anything and then a week later or so it came to light that a man was caught on CCTV getting in that car with an missing child and it came to light that a cop had caught them running a light but had let them go without even checking for ID and insurance that that would make the news too.

At the end of the day police, soldiers, firemen etc all have incredibly difficult jobs and have to follow out their duties according to the law.

I think it's a horrible situation all around, clearly distressing for the family but also for the cop and his family. He might be a very good cop who had had a bad day, has listened to hundreds maybe thousands of excuses in his job as a traffic cop and so jst plays straight by the rules.

What's ironic as well as that already without knowing anything about the cop or his background people are already wanting to jump on him, get him fired and probably tarred and feathered yet they cannot see that maybe the cop who deals with a 101 excuses a day for running a red light might also jump to conclusions or just stick to the letter of the law as a guidline to avoid trouble etc.