{"id":281926,"date":"2016-09-28T20:21:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T00:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281926"},"modified":"2020-11-01T20:25:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T01:25:14","slug":"grieving-man-stopped-for-speeding-cop-drives-him-100-miles-to-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/grieving-man-stopped-for-speeding-cop-drives-him-100-miles-to-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Grieving man stopped for speeding, cop drives him 100 miles to family"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Yes, you can be a policeman and have compassion\u2026 a good lesson for all those who lack it.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A police officer pulling over a black man in Ohio could have been the precursor to another bout of protests. However, one Facebook post documenting such a happening had such a refreshingly positive outcome that it\u2019s gone viral.<\/p>\n<p>When Mark Ross received a call in the middle of the night informing him that his 15-year-old sister had been killed, all he wanted was to be with his family.<\/p>\n<p>Since he didn\u2019t have a car, he asked a friend to drive him the 400km (250 miles) from Indiana to Detroit. However, his friend had a suspended license.<\/p>\n<p>After being pulled over for speeding in Ohio, Ross explained what had happened, bursting into tears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI explained to the officer that my sister had died and that I needed to get to my mother ASAP\u201d\u00a0Ross said.\u00a0\u201cI broke down crying and he saw the sincerity in my cry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To Ross\u2019 surprise, the officer, Sgt. David Robison of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, didn\u2019t arrest him but instead offered to drive him to Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe offered to bring me 100 miles [160km] further to Detroit because they towed the vehicle,\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<p>When they reached Detroit, Robinson asked Ross if he could pray for him. He then reached over and\u00a0\u201cbegan praying over me and my family,\u201d\u00a0explained Ross.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody knows how much I dislike cops but I am truly grateful for this guy,\u201d\u00a0said Ross.\u00a0\u201cHe gave me hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook post has been shared over 100,000 times since being posted on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/viral\/360862-police-grieving-man-detroit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/viral\/360862-police-grieving-man-detroit\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Yes, you can be a policeman and have compassion\u2026 a good lesson for all those who lack it. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}