The bodycam footage of American professional football wide receiver Tyreek Hill’s stop and detention has been released by the Miami-Dade Police Department as the investigation continues about the incident that took place a few hours before kickoff of the game between the Dolphins and the Jacksonville Jaguars on the first Sunday of the NFL season.
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The newly released bodycam video showed the altercation between the Miami-Dade County officers and Hill. The video shows that two motorcycle officers went after Hill after he appeared to speed past them in his McLaren sports car on the roadway entering Hard Rock Stadium in light traffic. One of the police officers knocked on the driver's window and told him to put it down, which Hill did, and handed him his driver's license.
The Bodycam Footage Conversation Between Tyreek Hill and the Police Officer
"Don't knock on my window like that," Hill told the officer repeatedly.
"I have to knock to let you know I am here," the officer told Hill while repeatedly asking why the player didn't have his seatbelt on.
"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.
"Keep your window down," the officer told him, again tapping on the glass. Hill can still be seen inside.
Hill rolled the window down slightly and said, "Don't tell me what to do." He put the window back up.
Hill told CNN's Kaitlan Collins he did roll his window back up, citing concern about drawing unwanted attention to himself.
"If I let my window down, people walking by, driving by, they're going to notice that it's me," Hill said. "And they're going to start taking pictures, and I didn't want to create a scene at all. Like, I just really wanted to get the ticket and then go on about my way."
The officer again told Hill to put his window back down or "I am going to get you out of the car. As a matter of fact, get out of the car."
The officer then demanded Hill open the door. Another officer stepped up and said, "Get out of the car or I will break that ... window," using an obscenity.
The door opened and the second officer reached in and grabbed Hill by the arm and the back of the head as the player said, "I am getting out."
Hill later guessed that he wasn't moving as quickly as the officers would have liked.
"I wasn't moving fast because I've got injuries," said Hill, who started his ninth NFL season. "I got things that I go through. I play a physical sport."
The second officer forced Hill face-first onto the ground. Three officers pulled Hill's arms behind his back as Hill yelled into his cellphone, "I am getting arrested Drew," talking to the Dolphins' director of security, Drew Brooks.
The officers handcuffed Hill, and one put a knee in the middle of his back. "If we tell you to do something, do it."
Take me to jail, brother, do what you gotta do," Hill replied.
"We are," an officer said.
"You crazy," Hill said to the officer.
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.
An officer then jumped behind him and put a bar hold around Hill's upper chest or neck. He pulled Hill into a seating position.
"Chill, bro," Hill told the officers.
Moments later, his teammate Jonnu Smith arrived, parking his SUV in front of Hill's car. Smith exited the vehicle, asking abot the situation. Officers instructed him to return to his SUV and warned him of a ticket for obstructing traffic. Defensive tackle Calais Campbell then arrived but was told to leave. When he didn't comply, he was momentarily handcuffed.
The situation ended after the arrival of more police and the Miami Dolphins' head of security. Hill was cited for careless driving and failure to wear a seatbelt. The original officer who first decided to pursue Hill later estimated that the football player had been driving at 60 miles per hour.
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