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Video Shows Police Confrontation With Miami Dolphins Player Escalating Quickly
Body camera footage showed an officer pulling Tyreek Hill out of his car on Sunday after repeatedly ordering him to keep the window down during a traffic stop, apparently for speeding.
Updated 2024-Oct-06 06:34
Tyreek Hill, wearing a white tank top and holding a football, looks off.
Mayor Levine Cava of Miami Dade County stated that the internal investigation into the Police Department was necessary.
She mentioned the importance of discussions on the use of force and expressed hope that the review process would provide answers regarding the officer s actions.
Drew Rosenhaus representing Mr. Hill mentioned the possibility of legal action against the Police Department.
Rosenhaus stated that what occurred to Tyreek at the stadium today is wholly inappropriate. Rosenhaus ignored requests for comment on Monday.
Outside of his sports career Mr. Hill has faced legal troubles. In 2014 he admitted guilt to domestic assault and battery by strangulation following an altercation with his pregnant girlfriend leading to Mr.Hill s expulsion from the Oklahoma State college football team. In 2019 authorities in a city near Kansas City chose not to press charges against him following his role in an alleged domestic violence situation.
In the previous year Miami Dade County police looked into him after a video seemingly showed Mr. Hill hitting a worker at a marina.
A traffic stop that led to Tyreek Hill a wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins being handcuffed outside the team’s stadium on Sunday escalated quickly after a police officer knocked on the player’s car window and he objected body camera footage of the incident shows.
The Miami Dade Police Department released the video on Monday evening after initially delaying its release pending an internal affairs investigation into the officer’s actions.
The investigation is ongoing. Mr. Hill’s brief detention he was later released and went on to score a touchdown in the Dolphins’ season opener on Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars prompted concerns about police use of force.
The president of a local police union countered those accusations by saying that the officers had followed policy after Mr.Hill was being uncooperative. One of the officers involved was temporarily reassigned to administrative duties.
Stephanie V. Daniels the Miami Dade police director told The Miami Herald on Monday that the officer was reassigned after a review of at least part of the footage.
Brief videos captured by passing drivers and posted on social media before the police body camera footage was released showed Mr.Hill a 30 year old star player for the Dolphins being placed on the ground by officers and handcuffed.
The body camera footage from six officers was partially redacted but still much longer comprising the roughly 27 minute traffic stop.
It began shortly before an unidentified officer on a motorcycle pulled over Mr. Hill’s black McLaren apparently for speeding at around 10:17 a.M. On Sunday not far from the entrance of Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens Fla. Mr. Hill’s car window though initially open appeared closed or nearly closed by the time the officer knocked on it a few moments later.
Hill and the man resolved the issue at hand. Research was done by Susan C. Hill had been freed from the handcuffs.
He shook hands with multiple police officers before getting back into his car this time sitting in the passenger seat.
Hill declared I will meet you in court. Speaking on CNN Monday night he shared that he had complied with the officers instructions and felt shellshocked and embarrassed by the incident.
He stated I was adhering to the rules. I had no desire to cause a commotion in any way. I was really eager to obtain the ticket.
