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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Police def overdid it, but part of the problem might be that some people would prefer to pay the fine for speeding because it’s insignificant to them. This specific component of the legal system is broken because it treats the wealthy exactly the same as everyone else.
- Fines need to scale based on the wealth of the perpetrator. It should be an equal punishment for breaking the law.
  
  Also, you can just mail speeding fines to people, there's no reason to pull anyone over for that shit except to initiate a conflict.
  
  That sounds good in theory but that only hurts the middle class disproportionately. Not to mention it violates the constitution.
- Over here speeding gets a fine and points on your license which when you hit the magic number you get your license revoked....
  
  Those points can almost always be negotiated down.

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
  
  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.
  
  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."

Excessive use of force by the cop who clearly wanted to escalate. Tyreek Hill also wasn't being smart in the way that was handled. We already know how paranoid and trigger happy law enforcement can be. People like to act tough on the internet, but I wouldn't DARE roll up tinted windows during a police stop knowing how shit could escalate. I'm trying to have them see my hands at all times. That's exactly the kind of shit that can happen when you're just trying to get home safe. Whatever it is, it's not worth it.
- Tyreek Hill also wasn't being smart in the way that was handled.
  Why is it that we have to cater to the ppl in the wrong? Give him his ticket and go. Plus there was already another officer before captain tiny dick showed up who confirmed he had no weapons in the car and according Hill keep the entire situation calm. Fuck him. You want respect you have to give respect
  
  Asshole cop vs asshole citizen is what the video showed. I'm far from a cop lover but I can see how it feels on the other side of a rolled up window where you can't see what's going on and the person inside's being non-compliant. Don’t fuck around and talk shit while rolling up your tinted window when a cop pulls you over. People in this country are strapped up. Especially in a concealed carry state like Florida that is full of insane people. Cops are on edge for a reason when they’re doing a traffic stop. If I did what Tyreek Hill did, I'd fully expect to be asked to step out or pulled out of my car
  
  But the guy breaking the law was in the wrong? Yes he's going to get a ticket but he rudely rolls up the tinted window while the cop is still talking. Hill was clearly disrespectful first and antagonistic throughout.

Video shows that two motorcycle officers went after Hill after he appeared to speed past them at in his McLaren sports car on the roadway entering Hard Rock Stadium in light traffic — they later said they clocked him at 60 mph (97 kph). They turned on their lights and pulled Hill over. One knocked on the driver’s window and told him to put it down, which Hill did and handed him his driver’s license.

I am a huge police accountability buff. But also, law matters, and court rulings matter. If police order you out of your car for their safety (in the US), you have to comply. If you do not, they are authorized to use force to pull you out and almost never do that gently. Cops absolutely use excessive force all the time, so not doing things that specifically give them permission would be smart. Him rolling up his tinted windows and refusing to get out of the car are what made this happen.
- This. They cannot tell you to get out for speeding or some other minor offense. They need probable cause for that. Then while he was in handcuffs, one of these clowns punched him in the face.
  We need to end qualified immunity and start jailing these authoritarian tyrants.
- Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, but maybe for a simple speeding offense they didn't need to drag him out of the car? Just because they are allowed to based on past court cases doesn't mean they should use that for every issue they see.
  
  There are a lot of people who want to end qualified immunity and reform many realities of policing today. I am describing the reality today. There's a reason I say I'm interested in police accountability/transparency.
- The time between them ordering him out of the car (not asking to roll down the window) and them forcing him out was a few seconds.
  
  The one I saw was longer, they knocked at least two different times and he kept telling them off.
  
  The clip I saw at the link looked like it was edited right there, I'd love to see the raw video. It could have been too quick, it could have been longer. I don't know.
- Nice to finally see someone who knows Penn v. Mimms out in the wild.

Everyone here gobblin up this rich domestic abusers BS just because the other party is a cop 🙄
Keeping your heavily tinted window rolled down during a traffic stop is not an unreasonable request. Dude's driving a $300k car and acting like an asshole to someone just doing their job. gimme a break. There are actual instances of racist police overreach that we aren't paying enough attention to. This isn't one of them.

As a white woman who's gotten tickets - I only open my window 2-3 inches to hand my documents through. It's all I am obligated to do so we can communicate and I can provide documentation. Considering the amount of rape and murder the police conduct, I think this is reasonable. Idk why this man has to have his window down too. I've rolled mine up during traffic stops when it was very cold or very hot, as Florida probably is right now. It's a huge abuse of power and completely unnecessary to attack a citizen for rolling up a window. No one should defend this. It's fascism. There's no crime for rolling up windows.

I expected to come here and see the police way out of line. Instead they are a little bit, but Hill was disrespectful and non-compliant.
- ...Hill was disrespectful and non-compliant.
  When the police came round, repeatedly, to my childhood house, after being called by my mother because my father was raping and beating her, the police laughed.
  Maybe the police, as a collective, will deserve respect in some hypothetical future where they don't often harm the innocent, and don't often make the world worse.
- Good way to justify police violence.
  
  Sorry, did you say something rude? That’s a ~~paddlin~~ slam down on the pavement
  
  "A black person annoyed them. Of course a cop can't put up with that!"
- Where do you live that cops deserve respect? Nobody DESERVES respect, least of all due to their shitty job. If you want respect you earn it, and cops have been doing the opposite (in north america) since their inception.
- So you think it is ok to answer a disrespectful rolling up of a window with physical violence?
  I'd hate to be in any way related to you.
- We say ACAB for a reason.
  
  So because ACAB this Hill guy can’t be one. This isn’t zero sum.

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