Dolphins' Tyreek Hill speaks out on police detainment after body-cam footage released
By John Breech,
2024-09-10
Tyreek Hill had a chance to talk about his legal situation Sunday after the Dolphins beat the Jaguars , but he wasn't quite ready to dive into what exactly happened. One day later, Hill decided to tell his side of the story.
"It was one of those situations where I was like, 'Here you go, my ID sir.' And I let back up my window," Hill said. "He said, 'Let it down.' I let it down. That's when it went from zero to ten. Other officer came in, just pulled me out."
Hill said he was trying to open his door, but the officers simply didn't give him enough time to follow their orders.
"I was opening my door and I was trying to get out, but I felt like they was wanting me to move fast," Hill said.
The Dolphins star was then immediately placed in handcuffs, "They felt like I was a threat and I don't see why they felt like I was a threat," Hill said.
A police union in South Florida released a statement Monday saying that Hill was uncooperative with police , which is an assertion the receiver strongly disagrees with.
"I feel like at the end of the day, if you roll up on somebody all hostile, knocking on their window and they already got their ID ready for you," Hill said. "It's not like I said, 'You're not getting my ID, you're not getting my ID.'"
That being said, Hill did seem to understand why the union claimed he was being uncooperative.
"I mean, you know everybody has their own sides, their own version," Hill said. "I feel like they do that to kind of protect their officer, which is right, you know. You got to have your teammate's back."
One of the officers involved in the case has already been placed on administrative leave as Miami-Dade police continue to investigate the situation.
Hill said he was shocked that he got pulled over because he didn't feel like he was breaking any laws.
"It was surprising to me that I got pulled over," Hill said.
"You have to learn about how to laugh and have a good time," Hill said when asked about his decision to celebrate his TD like that.
Hill's biggest takeaway from the incident is that he doesn't want to see something like this happen to others.
"If I wasn't Tyreek Hill, lord knows, I probably would have been locked up," Hill said. "I don't like dividing people, I like bringing people together."
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