6mo ago

Video shows officers dragged [NFL Star] Tyreek Hill out of his car after he put his window back up

apnews.com Video shows officers dragged Tyreek Hill out of his car after he put his window back up

Police body camera video shows an officer dragged Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill out of his sports car by his arm and head and then forced him face-first onto the ground after Hill put up the window of his car.

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6mo ago

Video shows officers dragged [NFL Star] Tyreek Hill out of his car after he put his window back up

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I have spent a couple years badmouthing this dude, but the police bodycam footage is pretty crazy. It's also crazy to me that a bunch of Miami cops would pull over one of the city's most well-known athletes and nobody was like "gee, maybe we shouldn't go so hard on this one, he's famous"
- Thought process might well have been: "This is an uppity black man, we'd better show these types a lesson."
  
  Nothing makes a a cop more upset than seeing a black man doing better than him. A LOT of poorer white ppl seeing any brown person doing better than them is upsetting. You only got in your position because your a diversity hire or Affirmative Action!
- No normal citizen would roll up their window on the police. Give me a fucking break.
  
  Playing devil's advocate. He may just not have wanted some paparazzi taking a picture of him while being pulled over? You could see in the video where the cop decides he's going on a power trip instead of just doing his job
  
  Ok, and maybe the cop thinks he is trying to load a gun with the window up. Lots of what ifs.
  
  Ok. So they force his door open. Great.
  Oh wait, it didn’t end there?
  
  With what evidence? Cops don't get to assume.
  
  After they dragged him out he appeared to be on the phone to someone to make them aware of the situation. With the amount of police brutality and racism in America I don't blame that reaction. Their actions here only justify it, too.
  
  Its probably hot there. Why must he keep his window down except to assert arbitrary control?
- so you are saying they should treat him differently because he is famous?
  
  Cops should be aware that if they fuck around with a famous person, they will definitely find out how it feels to face serious charges.
  I wish it was the same for us poor people, but it's not.
  
  Exactly. I’m not saying the cops should do it, but you’d think they’d take a moment to pause before harassing literally one of the most famous men in their city. If that doesn’t make them reconsider their actions, just imagine what it’s like for everyone else. Tyreek Hill even made a comment about it in a post-game press conference, where he wondered what would’ve happened to someone else.
  
  No, the person is saying the cops should have been smarter. They didn't say, "the cops SHOULD HAVE done X." They said, "it's crazy that the cops DID do X."

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