Roswell GA Police Officer Asks Johnny White for Proof his Wife Has Stage 4 Breast Cancer After Stopping Him for Speeding

Johnny White files complaint with Roswell GA Police Department after officer stops him for speeding as he rushed cancer stricken wife to local hospital because she was suffering from chest pains, that turned out to be blood clots in her lungs and officer asks for written proof of her cancer.

SHAME: Johnny White, a resident of Roswell, Ga., is crying foul after he was stopped by a police as he tried to rush his wife, who has stage 4 breast cancer, to a local hospital. White, who is black, was speeding -- 44 mph in a 25 mph zone, but I find the officer's alleged actions unconscionable when he was told Roxanna White was suffering chest pains and her husband was trying to get her to the hospital quickly. When he told the officer about his wife's condition, he reportedly asked him for written proof of breast cancer. Really?

"Why would he ask me, I’m sorry. Why would he ask me that? Why would we have to prove that my wife had cancer?" White said. He said the officer took about 15 minutes and gave him a citation. "I said 'Sir, I don't want to sign it. I just want to leave and go to the hospital.' He said, 'If you don't sign it I'm going to take you to jail,’” said White. White told Napier Viteri he asked police to call an ambulance, and that is how his wife got to the hospital. He said doctors kept her overnight after finding blood clots in her lungs. "Which essentially could be fatal, and could have been if we had not gotten her here in time,” White added. Source

The officer had every right to stop Mr. White because he was speeding, but from a humanitarian perspective, he could have let the man go with a warning when he saw that his wife was in some type of distress. She could have suffered a pulmonary embolism and died before reaching the hospital and the police department would have been liable for her death because of the actions of this officer.