Miami Dolphins star receiver Tyreek Hill has made allegations against one of the police officers who arrested him Sunday in Miami.
Hill alleged during an interview on Amazon Prime Video before the team's “Thursday Night Football” game against the Buffalo Bills that one of the officials pinched him on the neck and tried to harass him.
“What people don't know is that every time I was handcuffed behind my back, the officer would pinch my neck, like he wanted me to do something to him,” Hill said. “It's crazy, next-level crazy.”
Body camera footage released by the Miami-Dade Police Department does not show a full, uninterrupted shot of Hill's neck during the arrest, but it does show multiple police officers' hands near his neck at different times.
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Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill reacts after a game against the Jacksonville Jaguars at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, on September 8, 2024. (Sam Navarro-Imagn Images)
Hill did not specifically name the officer who allegedly tried to harass him. The officer who handcuffed Hill is Danny Torres, a 27-year veteran.
Torres has since been placed on administrative duty. The Miami-Dade police director assigned her to paid administrative duties after she said she reviewed footage from officers' body cameras that day. Torres' attorneys told Fox News Digital that they are demanding the officer be reinstated immediately.
“We demand the immediate reinstatement of our client and a full, thorough and objective investigation, as Director Daniels has also requested. Our client will not comment until this investigation is concluded and all facts are revealed,” the lawyers said in a statement.
The footage shows Hill was pulled over for speeding as he approached Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday. An officer told Hill to roll down his window, and he handed the officer his driver's license and repeatedly told him not to hit his window. The footage also shows the officer asking Hill to keep his window down. The incident escalated when Hill did not comply.
When the officer asked Hill to exit his vehicle, the receiver said, “I’m going out, I’m going out.” When the officer opened the door and pulled Hill out, the receiver said, “I’m going out!” Another officer then grabbed Hill by the back of the head and neck area and forced him to the pavement to handcuff him.
Hill was released after about 25 minutes, when his officer, Drew Rosenhaus, arrived. Hill was then heard telling officers he would “see you in court” before getting back into his vehicle.
Hill and his attorneys called for Torres' firing in a statement released Tuesday. He reaffirmed his stance at a team news conference on Wednesday.
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This body camera image released by the Miami-Dade Police Department shows Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill being arrested during a traffic stop on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. (Miami-Dade Police Department via AP)
“He's gone. He's gone. He's gone. He's gone. He's got to go, man,” Hill said. “Because, at that point, he didn't just treat me bad. He treated my teammates disrespectfully. He said some crazy words to them and they didn't even do anything. Like, what did they do to you? They were just walking down the sidewalk. He's got to go, man.”
The incident has sparked several discussions about whether Hill or the police officer was in the wrong.
ESPN star Stephen A. Smith suggested Hill was not blameless but insisted police acted with excessive force.
“As far as Tyreek Hill is concerned, we can't completely let him off the hook based on the statement made by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement,” Smith said Tuesday on ESPN's “First Take.”
“They said he was uncooperative. We have a responsibility on this show and on any platform that we can do is to make sure that we're doing everything we can to save lives, to make sure that we're doing what we can to make sure that somehow, some way, you can live another day and fight that battle. We know how wrong they were. The police were over the top. There's no excuse. They should be ashamed of themselves, the way they acted. They just crossed the line. Absolutely true.”
Former NBA star Charles Barkley appeared on Fox Sports 910 in Phoenix and criticized the media for focusing on Hill's career during coverage of the incident.
“I don't like it when we bring it up in the media because you know guys are going to start racing quickly and that bothers me,” Barkley explained. “We have so many fools in the media that love to play the race card. I said, 'Wait a minute, they just did the same thing to Scottie Scheffler.'”
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Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill speaks during a postgame news conference on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Hill said Wednesday that the incident will not lead him to kneel during the national anthem at Dolphins games, nor call for defunding the police. Kneeling during the national anthem in protest of police brutality and racial injustice became a flashpoint in the NFL during the 2016 and 2017 seasons. The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started the movement.
“Not really, because like I said, I'm not going to mix the two,” the star receiver said. “I'm not going to kneel. I'm not going to call for defunding the police. I'm not going to protest.”
The Miami-Dade Police Department had not responded to Fox News Digital's request for comment at the time of publication.
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