The Miami Dolphins’, $120 million receiver, Tyreek Hill is certainly a player that operates around the extremes.
From being quite possibly the best wide receiver in the National Football League (and almost every fantasy league’s 2nd overall pick), to having an array of off-the-field issues, Hill’s life incorporates the very highs and very lows.
Including what was a very bizarre story and subsequent lawsuit involving Hill accidentally breaking the leg of a plus-sized model in his home earlier this year.
Tyreek Hill Arrested Prior To Season Opener V.S. The Jacksonville Jaguars
The Miami Dolphins’ star offensive asset was arrested a few hours before kick-off on Sunday morning, where local law enforcement pulled him over for speeding,
In a video captured by a fan, Tyreek Hill is shown to have been physically detained on the ground, with his hands cuffed behind his back.
Although the union representing the Miami-Dade officers reported that Hill was “uncooperative” and “refused to sit”, the Miami Herald reports that the Dolphins’s #1 receiver had less than a second to follow the police’s orders.
And regardless, the physical nature of his detainment does very much seem to be a gross overreaction from law enforcement to what is very much a run-of-the-mill low-level misdemeanour.
Both fans and Hill alike were fairly perturbed by the events that happened prior to the game, with many echoing angered sentiments of what many argue has been an ongoing issue of police mistreatment of people based on the color of their skin.
Mike McDaniel Angered By Police Treatment Of $120 Million Receiver
McDaniel, who is biracial and one of the most well liked players coaches in the NFL, delivered some fairly un-minced words to say about Hill’s aggressive arrest.
“It’s hard for me not to find myself more upset the more I think about it. Try to put myself in that situation. The thing that [expletives] me up is knowing I don’t know what that feels like.
It’s very important that two things should be true. You let due process work and let information be gathered to appropriately project an opinion. But I can’t get away from the fact of what I know their experience to be.”
In addition to Hill, Calais Campbell, McDaniel commented on Dolphins and future Hall of Fame defensive ends, who was also handcuffed whilst trying to de-escalate the situation, for not moving his car quickly enough and standing within 25 feet of Hill.
“If you are Calais Campbell and going to work, whatever personal innocence you have, you are a gigantic, strong, miraculous man that has done right in all ways, shapes and forms. There are elements to that that are very triggering. I think it’s supremely important to wait for information to be gathered before any rush to judgment. The feelings expressed to me are unsettling.”
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