Camera footage shows police removing Tyreek Hill from the car

MIAMI — Newly released body camera footage from the arrest of Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill shows Miami-Dade police officers pulling the star player from his car and forcing him to the pavement before handcuffing him.

The footage shows Hill being pulled over for speeding as he approaches Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday. It takes about a minute from the time the officer gets off his motorcycle and begins walking toward Hill's car until Hill is forcibly removed.

Upon arrival, the officer knocks on Hill's car window, prompting Hill to roll down his window, hand the officer his driver's license, and repeatedly tell him not to knock on his window. The footage also shows the officer asking Hill to keep his window down. The incident escalates when Hill does not comply.

Hill tells the officer, “Give me my ticket, bro, so I can go, I'm going to be late. Do what you gotta do,” and rolls up his tinted window.

“Roll down your window,” the officer said, knocking on the glass again. Hill can still be seen inside.

Hill rolled down his window a little and said, “Don't tell me what to do.” He rolled the window back up.

Hill told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Monday night that she rolled her window back up because she was worried about attracting unwanted attention.

“If I roll down my window, people who are passing by, driving by or passing by, they'll know it's me,” Hill said. “And they'll start taking pictures, and I didn't want to make a fuss. All I wanted to do was get the ticket and be on my way.”

The officer again told Hill to roll down his window or “I'll take you out of the car. In fact, get out of the car.”

After the officer finally asks Hill to exit his vehicle, Hill says, “I’m going out, I’m going out.” As the officer opens the door and pulls Hill out, the receiver says, “I’m going out!” At that point, another officer grabs Hill by the back of the head and neck area and forces him to the pavement to be handcuffed.

“It went from 0 to 60, man, from the moment those guys pulled up behind me and knocked on my window, it went from 0 to 60 immediately,” Hill said Monday in an interview with “NBC Nightly News.”

“I was opening my door and I was going to walk out, you know what I mean, but I felt like they wanted me to move quickly.”

Hill was able to call Dolphins security director Drew Brooks before he was pulled from his car. The officer who forced Hill to the ground held him in place with a knee on Hill's back and told him to “stop crying.”

“When we tell you to do something, you do it, understand?” the officer tells Hill. “Not when you want to, but when we tell you to. You're a little confused.”

Hill is escorted to the sidewalk and asked to sit down, to which Hill responds that he recently had knee surgery and asks the officers to “hold on.” The same officer who pulled Hill from his vehicle, who was not the officer closest to Hill, rushes over to him, puts his arms around his shoulders, and forces him to the ground again, at one point putting his hands around Hill's neck.

Officer expresses skepticism about Hill's surgery.

“Really? What a coincidence,” he said to Hill. “Did you have ear surgery when we told you to roll down the window?”

There have been no reports of any recent surgeries that Hill has undergone, but it is not uncommon for players to undergo surgeries without warning if they are not of the type that will affect their status for the season.

Dolphins tight end Jonnu Smith witnessed the scene. The footage shows him parking his vehicle several feet away from Hill and scrambling out of his car as Hill is forced to the ground. Officers immediately ask Smith to step back and identify himself, which he does.

Smith remains about 25 feet away from Hill throughout the footage and is eventually issued a citation.

Dolphins defensive lineman Calais Campbell arrives on the scene shortly afterward and is also told to leave. Campbell approaches the officials with his arms raised.

At one point, one of the responding officers appears to acknowledge Hill's status as a professional athlete, although neither Hill nor Campbell admitted they were Dolphins players.

“You know who he is, right?” the officer asks. “One of the Dolphins' star players.”

Eventually, Campbell is taken into custody while an officer holds Hill in place with a hand on his shoulder.

When Hill complains about being restrained, the officer forces him to the ground before allowing him to sit back down.

“I'll put it to you this way: Your job is to serve and protect, right?” Hill says. “You're doing a horrible job of protecting right now. I told you I wouldn't show up… That's just going to make things worse.”

Hill verbally complies with officers' commands throughout the footage. At least one officer attempts to reason with Hill and defuse the situation as bystanders film the incident from both the sidewalk and their vehicles.

“I'm just a black man, that's all,” Hill shouts. “I'm just black in America.”

“We're dark-skinned too, bro,” one officer replies. “We're colored people too. Don't play like that's something special.”

Hill is released after about 25 minutes, when Brooks and Hill's officer, Drew Rosenhaus, arrive. The audio cuts out several times, but in one angle Hill is heard telling officers he would “see you in court” before re-entering his vehicle.

“If I wasn't Tyreek Hill, God knows I probably would have been, at worst, a man who would have shot me or been locked up” and “put behind bars, you know, for a simple speeding ticket,” Hill told NBC News.

Hill caught seven passes for 130 yards and an 80-yard touchdown in the Dolphins' win over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.

After scoring, he referenced the incident from that morning by putting his hands behind his back and allowing teammate Jaylen Waddle to restrain him as they walked back to the team's sideline.

Hill told NBC News: “You learn to laugh and have a good time” in regards to the celebration.

On Monday night, the Dolphins issued a statement saying the team was “saddened by the overly aggressive and violent conduct directed toward Tyreek Hill, Calais Campbell and Jonnu Smith,” adding that “it is both maddening and heartbreaking to see the very people we rely on to protect our community use such unnecessary force and hostility toward these players, but it is also a reminder that not all situations like this end peacefully, as we are grateful this one is over. 'What if I wasn't Tyreek Hill?' is a question that will have a resounding impact.”

The statement goes on to say that the franchise is “proud to have a strong, positive relationship with the Miami-Dade Police Department and other law enforcement agencies and recognizes that the vast majority of officers serve the community with the utmost character and desire to protect all citizens. However, as fully displayed in the videos released tonight, there are some officers who confuse their responsibility and commitment to serve with misguided power. While we commend the MDPD for taking the correct and necessary action in quickly releasing this footage, we also urge them to take equally swift and strong action against the officers who engaged in such despicable behavior.

“We will support Tyreek and our players as they work to use their platform and this situation to make a positive impact in our community. We have always believed that football has a unique power to bring people together and we remain hopeful that through the collective work of the players, the organization and our community partners, we can create lasting change.”

Earlier in the day, the South Florida Police Benevolent Association also issued a statement, before the body camera footage was made public, saying Hill was “uncooperative” with officers.

“Prior to yesterday's Dolphins game, an incident occurred in which Tyreek Hill was handcuffed before being released. First, to be clear, at no point was he under arrest. He was briefly detained by officer security after driving in a manner that put himself and others in great danger,” Steadman Stahl, the association's president, said in a statement.

“Upon being detained, Mr. Hill did not immediately cooperate with the officers on scene, who, in accordance with policy and for his immediate safety, placed handcuffs on him. Mr. Hill, remaining uncooperative, refused to sit on the ground and was therefore redirected to the ground,” Stahl's statement added.

Stahl told “The Andy Slater Show” that Hill “escalated” the situation and that it would have happened more quickly if Hill had complied.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.