Following Tyreek Hill‘s detainment before yesterday’ game, Andy Slater of Fox Sports 640 South Florida released the bodycam footage from Miami-Dade Police. The release of the video follows a statement by the Miami-Dade Police earlier today in which they said that Hill was not immediately cooperative with officers (per Charean Williams of ProFootballTalk.com).
The video shows that Hill was initially pulled over for speeding while approaching Hard Rock Stadium. After the Dolphins wide receiver was pulled over, he was asked to keep his window down. As ESPN’s Marcel Louis-Jacques and Xuan Thai detail, the “incident escalated when Hill didn’t comply.”
After exiting his vehicle, Hill was grabbed “by the back of the head and neck area” and forced to the pavement before being placed in handcuffs. After being walked to the sidewalk, Hill was forced to the ground again after not immediately complying to an officer’s demand to sit down, with the wideout citing recent knee surgery.
The footage also shows the police tensely interacting with tight end Jonnu Smith, who parked about 25 feet away from Hill. Smith “was ultimately given a citation.” Defensive lineman Calais Campbell can also be seen in the footage approaching police with his arms raised.
Following the release of the footage, the Miami Dolphins released a statement. While the organization lauded the release of the video and acknowledged their relationship with the Miami-Dade Police, they also requested “swift and strong action against the officers who engaged in such despicable behavior.” Per Armando Salguero of Outkick.com, the officer at the center of the video “was placed on administrative duties” and has hired a lawyer.
More notes from around the NFL…
- Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson is facing a new civil lawsuit claiming him of sexual assault and battery during an incident in October 2020, per ESPN’s Daniel Oyefusi. Watson “sexually assaulted the woman for several minutes” before storming out of her apartment. Watson was previously accused of sexual assault and inappropriate conduct by more than two dozen women. He avoided criminal charges but was served an 11-game suspension after the league and the NFL Players Association reached a settlement. Watson settled 23 of his 24 civil lawsuits, and this latest suit joins the one remaining civil suit from 2022. An NFL spokesperson declined comment when asked about the matter, per Jonathan Jones of NFL on CBS.
- Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com has the details on Dak Prescott‘s new contract with the Cowboys. The four-year, $240MM extension features an $80MM signing bonus and $129MM guaranteed at signing. The quarterback will have another $40MM guaranteed next March, and another $45MM will be guaranteed the following March. The deal also includes a no-trade clause, a no-franchise tag clause, and a no-transition tag clause.
- The NFL sent a memo to more than 20 players and their respective teams before Week 1, warning the players that they could face suspensions if they violated the safety and sportsmanship policies. While the players’ identities weren’t revealed, ESPN’s Adam Schefter notes that the individuals “have been penalized and scrutinized in the past,” with all of the players having been suspended over the past two years for on-the-field incidents.
So he can’t sit down due to recent knee surgery, but can put up 130 yards receiving an hour later?…..Sure, that’s adds up lol
You can say what you want about Hill I think most of us can agree that not keeping your window rolled down was hardly justification for how the police handled this situation. I severely doubt Miami police would have launched an internal affairs investigation and suspended an officer unless they believe their officers acted above board.
Below board*
Have you seen the body cam they just released? Hill definitely was the knuckle head in the situation. Was the officer aggressive, maybe somewhat but simply taking some self ownership by Hill nothing at all would’ve happened smh….and be S. Florida PD has already said they stand by the officers actions
If you saw the body cam video and think it’s necessary to use that level of force for a traffic stop, I don’t know what to tell you. For that level of force to be used in a case where it isn’t even necessary to bring the guy into the station is ridiculous.
Not necessarily disagreeing with you, however if he’s have just simply obeyed the officer’s commands this whole thing doesn’t happen. That what bugs me here WHEN PEOPLE ARE NOT COMPLIANT WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT THEY GET JITTERY, so just act as you are told it’s not that hard to roll down your darn window.
None of this justifies that level of force.
Saying that law enforcement gets jittery when unarmed/ non threatening people don’t comply to their authority is like saying when my wife gets too mouthy I smack her for not listening to me.
To make my stance clear I think Hill is a clown that wanted to be defiant and challenge the officers authority. I also believe that level of force was completely unnecessary for the situation. 4 cops around him forcing him to the ground is obviously not called for. 95% or more of police are good people protecting the public and their community but 5% have a massive power complex and feel they need to show they are the ones in charge. Those 5% are in it for the wrong reason and shouldn’t be in that position.
Also across 2 different articles and like 5 posts about it at this point nobody seems to have any response to the fact the Miami PD within 12 hours suspended one of the officers and launched an Internal Affairs investigation about the incident. I’m not an expert but typically I doubt that police departments do that unless they have significant reason to believe their officers were out of line.
The officer has not been suspended. He was placed on administrative duty pending an investigation.
Come on AK really? You’re in law enforcement, that’s like saying he’s not suspended from school he has inschool suspension. For everyone that doesn’t know administrative duties is an internal assignment that has no interaction with the public. It’s used when departments are conducting an investigation and don’t feel comfortable with that officer working with public. It can also be used for medical reasons and a few other things as well. But it’s clear in this case it’s being used as a type of suspension.
He was not suspended. The department was quite clear about they did, which was to assign him to a desk pending investigation. You seem to have your own conclusion, which noone can stop you from having, and whatever connotations you choose to assign further are your own. I am not personally assigning any such connotations, and am not surprised that a large department would assign someone to a desk while investigating an incident with a large degree of public interest.
Whether the officer is cleared or not, this move is not a suspension because it’s not a suspension. What you said is, no offense intended, incorrect.
And it was completely unnecessary to be that disrespectful after committing a crime. You think America would be a better country if everyone treated authority like that? Teachers, bosses, included? Gimme a break. Cause and effect. He was disrespectful so he caught the business. But make Tyreek Hill and George Floyd, two women beaters, victims and hero’s. Nicely done. No wonder the county’s education levels are in shambles. If this is the proper way to treat authority, why would kids be respectful and learn? Sends the wrong message all the way down.
I’ve never called George Floyd a hero. It’s unnecessary for him to be a hero or a great guy for it to be deeply wrong for cops to functionally execute an unarmed person in the street. Just as it’s unnecessary for multiple cops to manhandle someone for not being obedient enough after speeding. If it’s not necessary to even bring a guy into the station for his crime, then it’s not necessary to handle him so aggressively.
He brought it all on himself by acting the way he did. If he acts respectful, he might get away with a warning. Resisting and being disrespectful to authority is only going to make the situation worse. I don’t even understand how adults don’t know that. And the rest is cause and effect.
That shouldn’t give cops carte blanche to get overly aggressive about a moving violation. Give me a break.
Yes it should. Cause and effect. If he’s not disrespectful then more than likely that does not happen. And if the cops do treat him like that if he’s being respectful they should be rightfully disciplined. But he committed the crime first and chose to be disrespectful. So yes it does. They are authority and they need to be empowered or then everyone will commit crimes, disrespect authority, and run havoc in the streets. It was all Tyreek Hill’s fault. His actions caused it all. Pretty simple actually.
Excessive police force should not be an automatic expectation.
U couldn’t be more wrong…
FOH
I’ve had dipsht cops put guns to my head after pulling me off the NYC subway … on my way to Cardinal Hayes where I was a straight A student with no contact with the justice system ever … because I looked at one of them disrespectfully.
Even when it happened three more times while at Columbia, I still default to respectful interaction regardless of the hostile aggression clearing meant to trigger a reaction from me.
Do all cops act like that? No
Does that mean the relatively few that do should be given the default crutch of “should’ve complied”? No
Your default reaction is not respect. You said you looked at them disrespectfully. That’s what caused it. Why do that when there was no reason for it? So your default reaction according to what you typed is disrespect. Why give them a reason at all?
Cops are not geniuses with guns at their hips. Why not just comply and keep it moving instead of the opposite when the opposite has proven to bring on more trouble.
So maybe we should bow and genuflect when in the presence of police? I’m not saying it’s ok to be an A-hole- and I wouldn’t be surprised if Hill was being difficult- But handcuffing someone and forcing him face down in the street when there’s no arrest made is a ridiculous overreaction.
There would be no need for an overreaction if he was respectful to begin with. Actions have consequences. And you’re opening yourself up to a reaction from someone who probably was a senior in high school JV football player with a gun at his side. Why do that when you can be respectful and move along? Makes no sense to me. You really think society will be a better place if everyone treats authority like this?
Since when is it a law that you have to be nice and respectful to police? Your whole argument is stupid. They are law enforcement not feelings enforcement. First amendment says as long as we aren’t threatening we can say what we want how we want it. He pulled him over for speeding, write the ticket and move on. By law you aren’t required to keep your window down btw. Public workers get disrespected like anyone else does at their job, if everyone else isn’t allowed to retaliate why can a cop who hold far more legal authority and can assert more authority than what’s been given to the officer. He went above and beyond and escalated the entire thing, cops unlike everyone else literally get constant training in de-escalation, which he clearly didn’t use once here. Be a bootlicker towards cops all you want if this want anyone other than hill they would’ve been in jail and the tax payers would be paying for it in a civil lawsuit.
You have to roll your window down. I don’t think you have to roll it down all the way. Rolling it all the way down would be a smart move to show you’re not a threat. A dumb move is to do what he did. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Correct!!
Ur absolutely right
“She deserved to get grapes look at how she was dressed proactively.
Yeah, Supreme Court ruled a while ago that being mean to cops doesn’t mean cops get to arrest you.
Or forcible drag you out of your car slam you to the ground hand cuff you.
Hill nor anyone is legally required to roll down their window. Hill was well within his right to have his window up.
“Well why he’d roll his window up”?
Cause he was on the phone with his agent drew rosenhaus. If you saw the video you’d see he was telling drew he was being arrested.
Kind of weird that hill gets on the phone with his agent which the cop would have heard or seen and then the cop forcibly removes hill from the car and hangs up the phone.
Since no one else will say it, this is ignorant af
Domestic Abuse equates to any level of indifference from police going forward?
GTFOH
Perspectives like this … and make no mistake, it’s an overwhelming popular one … is one of the historically main reasons badges have a bullseye.
Not keeping his window down is 100% justification for them pulling him out of the car. That and his utter disrespect when the officer’s approached with his nonsense about knocking on his window. For all they know he is getting a weapon. They removed him from the car and took him to the ground for hand-cuffing, and they could have been far more forceful, as they actually laid him down gently.
Here is the real problem. A white person pulls this stunt and no one overreacts and white people don’t defend the knucklehead. Why are people defending what he did?
The police were not asking him to do anything he should not easily have complied with. Shut your mouth and do as they ask and you have a ticket and can be on your way in 10-15 minutes, tops. Hill brought all of that on himself because he disrespected the police from the onset.
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That doesn’t justify the level of force.
Well lawn chair lawyer. You are wrong on many levels. He does have to roll the window down. One for the cops safety and his own. The cop needs to know if he is armed or not. Rolling the window back up is a red flag. What is he doing behind the tinted windows?
You also have to comply with a lawful given order. The I don’t need to tell you my name show you anything or roll down the window is ignorant. If he only rolls it down a little it is defiance but most cops will work with it. He asked Hill multiple times to roll it down opened the door and asked him to step out of the car. When he tried to shut the door is when he got physical. Traffic stops can be dangerous and cops are on alert. This cop might have had no idea who Hill was. Fancy car doesn’t mean pro athlete could be drug dealer.
Him not getting arrested had more to do with other players stopping and talking respectfully. I also heard he was getting a reckless driving ticket. How fast was he going and why were there 4 cops there? The force used was more a testament to his strength. If he was an avg person he probably gets helped out of the car and put against it. Him going to the ground was protection. They were trying to control him and that is where it ended up.
You can blame cops all you want but they put their lives on the line for little pay or respect. Also Floyd wasn’t executed he was being held down by a questionable technique and died partly because of the drug use. Should they have let him up? Yes should they have allowed the EMTs to look at him sooner? Yes did they go into the confrontation with the idea to kill him? No they screwed up he died and they are paying the price now. Blame the cops for you being stupid is pretty popular right now along with much more stupidity things need to change this Country is in a world of hurt.
I suppose next you’ll be coming up with an excuse for the killing of Oscar Julius Grant. You can pretend all you want that things like this are justified, but excessive force is excessive force.
Officers all over the country watch training videos and scenarios that situations like that turn deadly. There are more officers killed during traffic stops annually than those of any color, etc who get stopped. Hill basically showed people how to act poorly and justify it. The police showed little tolerance to a punk who in hindsight, they should have took his info, secured the area around his car and took their time running his info and writing the ticket until just before kick off.
Remember this post when he wins a civil lawsuit and the city and his pension pay those players over this. Officer safety excuse is bs they had 4 cops around him, he clearly rolled his window up because he got on the phone. 4 guys with guns shouldn’t be afraid of an nfl football player right outside the stadium on game day. What a joke. This has nothing to do with race it has to do with the clear divide between cops and society. If any other person was in this situation they would have gone to jail. Lastly just because a cop tells you to do something does NOT mean it’s a lawful order. Again write the ticket and move on, this is the problem most cops have they want to stick their nose in our business so they can find something to arrest or ticket you for. Have we not seen enough evidence in our country to see the clear divide between how we want cops to be and how they act. As long as qualified immunity is around and we the people pay for cops mistakes nothing will change. Cops investigate themselves and never find wrong doing unless it’s something like this. Doesn’t take more than a pair of ears and eyes to know cop culture is messed up, and the fact so many of you think we should just bow down to cops is a bigger problem defending our rights are more important than giving them up at the cost of “safety”
The whole situation was terrible from Hill’s arrogance from the initial contact to the officer’s responses. It was truly two egos going head to head and that was not good for either side. A lot of lessons to be learned from both sides. What is amazing was the arrogance of Hill, and lack of accountability even after the incident and after the world saw the body cam video and EVERYONE’S actions. In hindsight, the best thing to have done after Hill acted arrogant, was just let him sit in the car and stew. And to anyone who says it’s only a motor vehicle violation, you’re right but motor vehicle’s can kill people, that’s why there are speed limits. Both parties approach to one another needs work and training. I’m sure hill is a great customer at a restaurant with an arrogant attitude and I’m sure the officer is a real hit with anyone at home who challenges him so work needs to be done all around.
Watson and sexual assault, name a more iconic duo.
Should have re-signed Flacco.
Nice car Cheetah, but when steroid-fed officers tell you to do something, you might want to listen …
Steroid-fed?!? If those guys were on steroids then somebody should remind them they need to workout while juicing.
The police shouldn’t have to beg you to roll down your window, what do you expect them to do if you don’t comply….oh well, he won’t do what we want, guess we’ll just leave, right. What does Tyreek think is going to happen, he’s no victim
There is no legal reason he has to roll his window down, a lot of people no longer feel safe interacting with cops so that is for citizen safety. That order is simply the cop being a tyrant.
Respectfully, I wonder if you were doing the work of a policeman and needed to see what the driver was doing/holding if you would feel different about the window and YOUR safety.
Dont get this twisted – Im not defending the quick takedown from the police. But Hill is not quite the victim he wants you to believe he is here. He instigated big time because he thinks he is above it.
There is a legal reason. You need to obey lawful orders by the cop. Even if it is a crack so he can see a little and feel safer. I suppose you don’t think they have to give a name or license either. Driving is a privilege not a right. Obey the laws and all is good. Be a fool and see what happens.
How about you go flying down the road in front of a cop and act like that. Another option the cop had was to break the window. That would have gone over real good if he didn’t like him knocking on it. Do dumb things and lose privileges.
Yes, he must obey LAWFUL orders, i.e. an order backed up by a law. He is under no obligation to roll his window down because the cop wants him to. This is the problem with law enforcement, his ego couldn’t handle someone asserting their rights therefore that makes him uncooperative. This is nothing more than a tyrant being a tyrant cause he was butt hurt.
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If Miami Dade high Way Patrol want to be tough tough guys, maybe they should get on the football field. Off of the field the majority of pro football players are sweety pies, but do their job on the field… Now we see why normal people get killed nation wide for no reason when encountered by law enforcement… Remember a traffic violation….
Im not inclined to want to feel bad for entitled Hill after watching the video.
He just thinks he is above it all.
His failure to be an adult and leave for his responsibilities are not the officers problem.
How much smoother could it have been had Tyreke acted like a normal human and apologized immediately? He may have possibly just got a ticket or even a warning. (Ok prob not a warning but it was possible if he acted like a normal person)
Instead he was confrontational and big timed the policeman.
Maybe the officers were a little rough and quick to get him down, but Hill playing victim here doesn’t sit well after seeing the video.
Only Goodell would be dumb enough to think cheap shot players are worried about his memos and warnings about sportsmanship and player safety. Just let the players police themselves on that issue.
Embarrassing take by the Dolphins. Different rules for different working classes. Laws should be applied equally across the board.
On the edge of my seat to read the NFL official response to this. Their inclusion department working overtime on this one.
An incident like this could get out of hand quickly. NFL needs to come out with a statement that both supports their employees (players) but at the same time doesn’t ailinate their customers (fans). Tricky. Either side decides to boycott games, hits the pocket book hard.
Not commenting on this specific incident, but…
YouTube’s algorithm sent me down the “police auditing” rabbit hole a while back. I recommend everyone watch some of these before blindly or mindlessly deferring to the police’s side of the story.
The number of cops who flat out do not know the law (lawyers need 6 years to learn the law, but cops can learn it in 6 weeks?) and make it up as they go is shocking.
The number of cops who enforce their own egos or feelings and not the law is frightening.
The number of times cops lie only for these people to be saved by video is insane.
Watching a few carefully selected Youtube videos does not reflect the reality of any of these scenarios. Bear in mind that the videos you refer are meant to show you a certain thing.
And no, officers are not lawyers, and yes, many of us don’t know the law to the extent that we should. Just as in any other profession, we have cops who don’t want to put in time and effort to do the “boring” stuff. It irritates me. But you can only choose from those who apply, and when you offer $30,000-$50,000 (at least in my state-there is at least department, to my knowledge, that starts at $26,000) a year to do this job, that’s the candidates that you get.
However, you would be surprised how many lawyers lose in court, to police offers, because they themselves don’t know the law. Most of the time, the issues at hand really are not complicated. It does not take a convoluted legal argument to establish the elements of a burglary charge, or to know when to Mirandize a subject, or when someone can demand an I.D. versus simply requesting one. Statutory law really is not complicated, even if there are lazy people who do not want to bother learning it. I promise you that they frustrate me much more than they frustrate you, if it’s any comfort. But, no, there are a lot of people who deal with the law who don’t know it. Even for those who, there’s always something extra that could arise that you didn’t anticipate. Could the legal training be longer? Yes, certainly. I’d welcome it. But to demand more, you must offer more, so you can get people who belong in the profession.
P.S.-I don’t know where you get that 6 week figure from(I’m assuming that it’s some type of twisted reported on academy averages, but even then it seems off), but it’s important to note that all states have different laws, different academies, and different procedures. The one commonality is that police training does not end with an academy graduation. Graduates will go to be field trained afterward, which is where they will do most of their actual learning in real time. So, no, you are not expected to learn the law in six weeks. That would be silly. Also, it’s worth noting that a large portion of what lawyers learn is court procedure, jurisdiction, venue, and case study. Learning the statutes is, again, quite simple.
It also absolutely infuriates me that this is lumped into a George Floyd type abuse by some.
They are absolutely not equal, and trying to tie every infraction to race cheapens the real actual racism problem that exists.
Hill was big-timing because he thinks he can.
Tyreke has a history of being a bad person, this isn’t the fight I would want.
This isn’t a defense of the police – there is room here for all to accept responsibility.
Exactly. It’s probably because of an upcoming election but the media making this as an example of how America is horribly racist is so weak and pathetic and actually hurts the country. The cops used a little excessive force on a person acting like a piece of crap. And spinning it out to be a massive racist story and Tyreek Hill is the ultimate victim is straight up gross. He said what if I wasn’t Tyreek Hill. Well if you weren’t Tyreek Hill and one of the fastest people on the planet then you wouldn’t be in the NFL due to your actions in college. So be happy you are Tyreek Hill. Amazing he thinks he’s a victim. And people buy it. Crazy.
I don’t think Tyreek Hill was saved by the video. If I am sloshed at 2:30 in the morning and I roll up my window on the cop and refuse to come out, I expect to be face down in the pavement.
And get shytty with the officer about knocking on my window. There’s a reason there are window tint laws and people in vehicles should roll their windows down and keep them down while interacting with an officer.
He treated the cop with respect because that his how his mom raised him. If that was respect then I would hate to see disrespect. This also was not white cop vs black upstanding compliant and nice black man. That cop sounded Hispanic to me. Could be wrong but had an accent.
Hill is a loser. Cooperate and you won’t get treated like the wanna be thug you are.
I’m astonished that Americans think this kind of aggressive, roided-out, conflict-seeking policing is in any way acceptable. Police should be trained to de-escalate. These police escalate at every step, seeking to create an incendiary situation.
And I’m no fan of Tyreek Hill.
There is plenty of blame to share between Hill and the police. Hill was slow to obey orders but was hardly defiant or disrespectful. At 5’10” and 190 pounds, he was hardly a threat to the four or more officers surrounding him, all of whom were bigger. Was he a threat after being handcuffed? At that point there was no need for the same aggressive officer, who helped drag him out of the car, to physically take him down to the pavement a second time.
None of the officers tried to deescalate the situation. And they are the trained ones, not the person caught speeding.
I completely agree, this is the typical tyrant mentality of cops in America.
^Wimp alert^
^ idiot alert ^
Hill beats women and punches a pregnant girlfriend . Tough guy not so tough now ?
Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd’s neck for 9 & 1/2 minutes, with the assistance of 3 other officers. While serving his 22 year sentence for murder he was stabbed 22 times by another inmate. Chauvin has since been transferred to a low security prison.
Tough guy not so tough now?
Floyd beat women as well.
Floyd overdosed.(or at least would’ve) The cops tried to prevent that but he ate the drugs anyways. If that idiot listened to the police like hill should’ve, he might still be alive. Must’ve been a terrible shank to take it 22 times and live still.
So the cops tried to prevent a George Floyd overdose by kneeing on his neck and chest for 9 & 1/2 minutes while he complained repeatedly that he couldn’t breathe? Yeah, I’m pretty sure that as a white guy, I would’ve gotten treated much better no matter how I behaved. They killed him and rightfully went to jail for it.
Read Etan Thomas’s article on his experiences. We live in two very different worlds.