Posted on 09/09/2024 4:33:12 PM PDT by RummyChick
Police have just released footage from Sunday's traffic stop involving Tyreek Hill ... and in the body-worn camera video, you can see cops yanked the Dolphins star out of his sportscar and threw him onto the ground following a dispute over his window.
The incident happened right outside of Hard Rock Stadium ... just hours before Hill was slated to play in Miami's season-opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
The car looks to be expensive.
A person with a car like that can actually afford a lawyer.
Even if the guy in the car was armed, it would be best to play it low-key.
I see three officers. The guy in the car would be a fool to pull a gun.
BS. Most cops are bad cops. And by bad I mean they don’t rat out the bad cops therefore they are bad as well.
A good cop will rat out the bad ones. And then be fired for being a rat. Therefor really all cops are bad cops..it’s in the DNA of the police force.
“I don’t get tough with anybody, my lawyer does.”
Faye Dunaway in “Chinatown”
I wouldn’t like that either.
Ok. Here’s a thing I went through a couple times.
Driving around with a friend of mine, black guy, IT dude, was working for one of Steve Bannon”s companies that rented office space at, if I remember correctly, the Tibetan embassy in nyc, and drove a bmw.
This one time we were going to Newark to watch a fight at another guys place.
I have never experienced the scrutiny from police like that. Followed repeatedly by more than one police car, one even pulled up next to us in a gas station, right next to us and stared in the car.
As a middle aged white guy this isn’t something I ever experienced and found it shocking.
My friend just said, it is what it is and happens all the time.
Live your life like that and then figure out why there could be attitude.
here is a clip of a teammate getting cuffed. This guy has a rep of good guy
https://x.com/_MLFootball/status/1833280346013745490
Law enforcement tends to wear light brown in Florida.
I just read a few days ago that Robert Peel, the father of modern policing, choose blue for the police to differentiate them from the red uniforms of British soldiers.
Cubano black sleeve guy cuffed 6 foot 8 300 pound football dude in that video
So why are they so obsessed with the window staying down?
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I know everyone currently has a hate on for cops and some rightfully so. But come on, use your head. It’s SOP to have the window down especially with a combative person like Hill with black tinted windows that you can’t see through. You can’t allow the detainee to be fiddling around in his car, maybe retreiving a weapon. And they had every right to pull him out of the car after he refused orders for him to do so. THe only questionable actions were the forcing of him to sit down.
I’ve been pulled over 3 times in a 2 mile drive going home, it was the late 60s and I used to call those stops that happened frequently, “long hair in an old car”.
Black dudes in expensive cars can be drug dealers, not just ballplayers.
However, Teddy Roosevelt’s rule was walk softly and carry a big stick.
De-escalation is skill both the police and other people need to learn.
Police can phone in a license plate number and get suspect information. I thought that was a standard procedure.
Same, but 20 years later than you.
Still, it was nothing like what I witnessed riding with him.
Flaming A-hole. Punched his 20 yr old pregnant girlfriend in the face and tossed her around like a ragdoll, broke his 3 year old son’s arm, hit with two other paternity suits, shoved a guy working at a marina, broke another woman’s leg.
Then plays idiot with the cops rolling up his window and being a hard case.
Cops were right on this one.
Then his other flaming A-hole teammate parks in the street and gets out to intervene.
Cops handled this at a fairly low level from what I saw. No weapons or tasers used, no beating, and A-hole # 2 wasn’t even charged, but was released.
Negritude.
Look at the muscles on the black guy.
They are an indication the guy is an athlete and not a drug dealer.
Here is my experience with this kind of thing.
Cops pounded on my door so hard I thought I was being robbed. They started shouting “open the door”. I looked out the window and said I dont see a cop car I am not opening my door but they were all over my yard. I was completely freaked out like there was some murderer or rapist on the loose. He pulled out his ID and I said do you have a warrant?
I finally opened the door and went outside. He starts screaming Where is (some guys name) we know he is in there.
I couldn’t process what was happening. I had no idea who they were talking about. They said so and so down the street said the guy was in my house.
It turns out the police didn’t count the number of houses correctly and they were at the wrong door. They went next door. They didnt pound on that door or swarm that yard. When I came out of my house again they yelled at me to get back in my house.
the reason for all of this is some dude ran over something in a yard. Gnomes or something.
The whole thing blew my mind. here I was thinking they were chasing a murderer and it all about lawn ornaments. I can empathize with what Smith and the other football were feeling as the cops are on the verge of arresting them and they thinking WTF!
“ Black dudes in expensive cars can be drug dealers, not just ballplayers.”
Oh good grief. They can also be anything else.
I’m being as nice as I possibly can here, but damn dude. You deserve a much more forceful and probably a very profanity laden response to that bs.
Is that your big experience with cops?
Which?
Rolling up a tinted window on a cop is asking to get your ass kicked.
“Police can phone in a license plate number and get suspect information”
That tells you who owns the car, not who is driving it.
I never heard of that “sop”, and have rolled the window up during traffic stops. And said “sop” sounds completely made up since once the cop walks away he can’t see in the car either way. And he was NOT combative until the cop started demanding he keep the window down for no good reason. And you CAN see through the window just fine. They had no NEED to pull him out of the car. Or to cuff him. Or to slam their knee into his back when he was on the ground and cuffed.
The cops turned a simple traffic stop into a pointless confrontation. He was cooperative until they got stupid.
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