MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Miami Dolphins star wide receiver Tyreek Hill was pulled from his sports car by Miami-Dade County police officers outside Hard
Police body camera video shows an officer dragging Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill out of his sports car by his arm and head and then forcing him face first onto the ground after Hill put up the window of his vehicle. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.
The officer asked Hill why he didn’t have his seat belt on. Hill again told the officer not to knock on his window.“Give me my ticket, bro, so I can go. I am gonna be late. Do what you gotta do,” Hill told the officer. The second officer then pulled the door open, grabbed Hill by the arm and the back of the neck and forced him face-first onto the ground as the player said, “I am getting out.” The first two officers and a third then pinned Hill, pulled his arms behind him and handcuffed him. One officers put his knee into Hill’s back. It had been exactly one minute since the officer first tapped on Hill’s window.
Why didn’t Hill keep his window down, and does Florida law require drivers to do so during a traffic stop? Seven seconds elapsed between the first officer ordering Hill out of the car and the second officer pulling open the door.WHAT WE KNOW: Hill was accused of punching his girlfriend in college and got kicked off the team at Oklahoma State University, later pleading guilty to domestic assault and battery by strangulation. In 2019, prosecutors in suburban Kansas City declined to charge Hill after an alleged domestic violence incident involving his fiancée and their 3-year-old child.
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