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Posted on 09/10/2024 4:44:37 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
Were the cops justified in their take down of Tyreek Hill?
This is no longer your grandfather's America........
Look up Graham factors. Once he was handcuffed the use of force to make him sit on the ground was unreasonable under that standard.
Timing is good though.
I spent twenty five years in law enforcement. Those cops, particularly the one with what looked like hand tattoos. A simple polite “Sir, please keep you window rolled down”…would have deescalated the whole thing. That man should not be a cop.
He was going 85 in a 50. Let’s start there.
it was reported that is was a “visual” view of speed...no radar no chase ?
He was clearly speeding.
He complied with all the requests. If the cop wanted the window rolled all the way down, he should have said so.
A simple step out of the vehicle would have been fine rather than a tag team takedown.
They knew this wasn’t some gangbanger but a professional athlete.
These cops shouldn’t have jobs tomorrow.
Hill doesn’t help himself by constantly running his mouth but he didn’t do anything wrong.....other than the speeding and reckless driving.
Rolling a tinted window up on a cop is asking to get your ass kicked.
Did you watch the video? The cops approached and he kept the tinted window up, causing them to knock repeatedly. When he finally handed them his license, he shut the window again, reaggravating the incident with his wise ass attitude. It went downhill from there. This is all on him.
“””In fact, from everything I could see, the cops went out of their way to escalate a routine traffic stop into a detainment and arrest.
This is no longer your grandfather’s America........”””
You must not remember cops of the past, beatings were common along with all the other dark stuff.
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Yes.
“They knew this wasn’t some gangbanger but a professional athlete.”
Yeah, punched his pregnant girlfriend in the face and threw her around like a ragdoll. The hit with two other paternity suits, and one assault suit over a broken leg, broke his three year old son’s arm, then assaulted a worker at a marina in Miami.
He’s a POS, not some respectable “professional” athlete.
Misdemeanor traffic violation......
BS.
He escalated the situation by rolling his window up and not rolling it down when told too.
His history as a POS fits this situation too.
Is that why they pulled him over for a routine traffic stop then pulled him out of the car and escalated the event?
Odd, that was never mentioned in the police report....
A man’s gots to know his limits
How did they know he was a professional athlete? He didn’t identify himself as such as far as I heard and it wouldn’t be on his DL. One thing for sure, macho Cubano cops don’t play and they don’t like to be talked down to.
To wit: “One cop, who appeared to be looking at Hill’s ID, asked his colleague about the receiver’s behavior... .“Why is he acting up like that?” one officer asked, as Hill could be heard yelling in the background. “You know who that is right?”..The other cop replied, “No?”..“That’s one of the Dolphins’ star players,” the officer said while pointing in Hill’s direction. “Oh yeah? F–k,” the other cop said.”
https://nypost.com/2024/09/10/sports/one-cop-detaining-tyreek-hill-had-no-idea-it-was-star-receiver/
“Tyreek Hill had his window up, the officer knocks on his window, he didn’t bang on his window he knocked on his window, you hesitated to pull it down, the first thing you say is, ‘Don’t bang on my window like that.’… he asks you for your driver’s license, you hesitated to give him your driver’s license...
https://nypost.com/2024/09/10/sports/tyreek-hill-cant-be-let-completely-off-the-hook-stephen-a-smith/
The author of the video debunks your claim. You did watch the video, didn’t you?....LOL!
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