No, he didn't. He drove a considerable distance and ran several stops signs.
I'll grant that he went a couple of blocks - with no effort to evade. When you're two blocks from the hospital and someone is headed in that direction, you have to consider the possibility that the driver needs to get to the hospital. As to the stop signs, I didn't spot them - and I certainly didn't hear the cop talking about them. And, given cop's attitude, I certainly would have thought I would have heard plenty about that, if so.
The people defending the cop in this thread seem to be completely lacking any heart or empathy. When I got the call that my mother was going to die soon (cancer), I HAULED ASS to get to her. I would gladly go to jail on reckless driving, fleeing the scene, or resisting arrest if it meant I could be with her when she passed to the other side.
At least Moats’s wife was able to be by her mother’s side when she died. What’s truly inexcusable to me is that Moat’s grandfather-in-law was also held up by that cop along with Moats and IT WAS HIS DAUGHTER WHO DIED. Un-freaking-believable.
Death of a loved one is already an overwhelming experience. I can’t even imagine how I’d react if I was put in his situation. It’s a credit to Moats that he didn’t punch the smug smile off the cop’s face.