This is beyond reproach... To serve and protect my ass, this officer should be fired

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If he wasn't famous the story wouldn't have broke though.

Yes it would have. I can't believe there are people on this board that think people being prevented from seeing a dying loved one because of a cop is an everyday occurance

Mate you don't have a clue. We have a man in the uk who had Downs Syndrome and had a stroke so went into hospital. He died due to them not feeding him. He went 26 days without food! This was in 2005 and its only made the news last week as a result of a report into 5 other deaths through neglect.

One hospital in Staffordshire has now hit the headlines because over a three year period an estimated 400-1200 people died through improper care!

None of those individual cases got any press on their own it took literally a catalog of complaints and gross incompentences before any of it made the news.

An ordinary person being inconvenienced just doesn't make headlines.

It was a huge story because Moates is a black celebrity. If he was just an ordinary working class guy, say a 23 year old McDonalds worker it wouldn't have made the local paper.

Buddy, I suggest you be the one to get the clue. The difference is that this instance WAS CAUGHT ON VIDEO!!!!!!!!! People seeing the injustice done is what enhances the outrage. Everyday some old person gets mugged on the streets, and it's rarely made into a national story, but if you remember last year when the 80 year old man was beaten and robbed and onlookers stood by and did nothing, it made international news, because it was CAUGHT ON VIDEO!!!! And I don't know how they do it in the UK, but here in the States, when a vehicle is pulled over, NO ONE, even passangers, can just get out of the car and leave. The fact that the cop didn't even bother to detain Moates irate wife is proof that at that moment he knew he was telling the truth. Also, here in the States, police do not issue citations for every single person whom they pull over for speeding, ESPECIALLY if it's an emergency. Yes, alot of times people will bullsh!t and make up an excuse, the difference here is that IT WAS PROVEN WHEN MULTIPLE NURSES AND ANOTHER OFFICER informed the cop that Moates was indeed telling the truth. And lastly, I don't speak on U.K. law enforcement because I don't know how they operate, so I suggest you do the same about U.S. police officers. A police department will not issue a public apology and throw one of their own under the bus unless they know he was in the wrong. In this country, you have the right to contest citations and get them overturned if you can prove that you had a legitimate reason for speeding. Rushing to see a loved one about to die is a legitimate reason for speeding that no TRAINED police officer would give out a ticket once he found out, and if you don't agree you're an idiot.