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    ‘Drew, I’m getting arrested!’ Who’s the man Tyreek Hill called when he was detained?

    By Madeleine Marr,

    1 days ago

    As Tyreek Hill was detained by police on the side of the road near Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens Sunday morning, he kept calling out one name.

    After Miami-Dade Police Department released 105 minutes of body camera footage showing what went down after the Miami Dolphins wide receiver was pulled over for speeding and reckless driving hours before his game, we learned that Hill had been on the phone during the encounter.

    “Drew!” Hill, in handcuffs, yells into his phone, that’s now on the pavement. “I’m getting arrested! Drew!”

    Later in the body cam video, we see his teammate Calais Campbell stop to investigate what is happening and Hill yells out to him, “Call Drew!”

    So, who is Drew? And how could he be of help?

    Many folks watching the video, in which an officer violently yanks Hill out of the driver’s seat and throws him facedown on the ground, assumed it was Hill’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, who recently worked on restructuring Hill’s contract in a historic, highly lucrative deal.

    https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0GxpEQ_0vRUaxNC00
    Drew Brooks, Linked In screenshot

    But in fact it was a different person on the phone: Drew Brooks , the Miami Dolphins’ director of team security, a source confirmed to the Miami Herald. According to his Linked In profile, the FSU alum worked as a City of Pembroke Pines cop for 20 years before the Fins gig.

    Why he may look familiar: Brooks appeared in an episode of HBO’s “Hard Knocks: In Season with the Miami Dolphins,” talking about his young son Dylan’s tragic death from brain cancer .

    “Tomorrow’s not promised,” he says in the show. “You don’t know. So don’t waste that day. Don’t ever waste the day.”

    Wearing a dark pink T shirt and light colored shorts, Brooks appears at the traffic stop a few minutes after receiving the frantic call. He talks to Hill in a quiet voice, calming him down as the cuffs are removed. Brooks stays by the star player’s side as Hill is eventually released to play.

    As for Rosenhaus, he also eventually showed up on the chaotic scene (he’s seen in a white polo, jeans and sunglasses).

    “What happened today to Tyreek at the stadium is completely unacceptable,” he said in a statement , adding Hill’s team was pondering legal action. “Tyreek did not deserve to be treated that way by the police involved.”

    Of the four officers involved in the stop, one has been reassigned to administrative duties pending the outcome of an internal affairs investigation.

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    Darren D
    1d ago
    Useless propaganda. Noone cares. Focus on the US and the world and not someone that got pulled over.
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