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As he rushed his family to the hospital, 26-year-old NFL running back Ryan Moats rolled through a red light. A Dallas police officer pulled their SUV over outside the emergency room.

Moats and his wife explained that her mother was dying inside the hospital.

"You really want to go through this right now?" Moats pleaded. "My mother-in-law is dying. Right now!"

Officer Robert Powell, 25, was unmoved. He spent long minutes writing Moats a ticket and threatened him with arrest.

"I can screw you over," the officer said. "I'd rather not do that."

The scene last week, captured by a dashboard video camera, prompted apologies and the promise of an investigation from Dallas police officials Wednesday.

It took Powell nearly 13 minutes to write his ticket. Some portion of that time was spent lecturing Moats and threatening to lock him up/have his SUV towed/etc. This, even while hospital staff came out to plead with the cop that, hey, his mother-in-law is about to die, sooooo...

(Via The Dallas Morning News)