The video showed that the altercation between the Miami-Dade County officers and the Dolphins WR escalated quickly.
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill speaks during an NFL football post game news conference, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024, in Miami Gardens, Fla. The Dolphins defeated the Jaguars 20-17.MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.
“Just give me my ticket, bro, so I can go. I am going to be late. Do what you gotta do,” Hill told the officer while putting his darkly tinted window back up.Hill cracked the window and said, “Don’t tell me what to do.” He put the window back up. The officer again told Hill to put it back down or “I am going to get you out of the car. As a matter of fact, get out of the car.”
The officers handcuffed Hill and one put a knee in the middle of his back. “If we tell you to do something, do it.”The officers stood Hill up and walked him to the sidewalk. One officer told him to sit on the curb. Hill said to the officer he just had surgery on his knee. Hill and Campbell were eventually released and allowed to go into the stadium. Hill received two citations but was never arrested.At one point, an arriving officer asked the first officer if he knew who Hill was.Steadman Stahl, president of the South Florida Police Benevolent Association, defended the officer’s actions, saying Monday that Hill “was briefly detained for officer safety, after driving in a manner in which he was putting himself and others in great risk of danger.
“They were trying to yank him down to the ground,” Campbell said Monday on ESPN. “I saw them kick him and pull him down ... I feel like one officer was pushing on his head.”
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