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Tyreek Hill had a chance to talk about his legal situation Sunday after the Dolphins beat the Jaguars, but he wasn’t quite ready to dive into what exactly happened. One day later, Hill decided to tell his side of the story.
The main point the Dolphins receiver made is that he’s lucky to be a celebrity. Hill said he knows the situation might have ended with him being shot if he wasn’t who he was.
“If I wasn’t Tyreek Hill, worst-case scenario, we would have had a different article: ‘Tyreek Hill got shot in front of Hard Rock Stadium’ … or ‘Tyreek Hill put in handcuffs, taken in and booked,'” Hill said in an interview with CNN on Monday night.
During an interview with NBC Nightly News that was broadcast on Monday, Hill said he did his best to comply with the officer who pulled him over a few blocks away from Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday morning.
“It was one of those situations where I was like, ‘Here you go, my ID sir.’ And I let back up my window,” Hill said. “He said, ‘Let it down.’ I let it down. That’s when it went from zero to ten. Other officer came in, just pulled me out.”
Hill said he was trying to open his door, but the officers simply didn’t give him enough time to follow their orders.
“I was opening my door and I was trying to get out, but I felt like they was wanting me to move fast,” Hill said.
The Dolphins star was then immediately placed in handcuffs, “They felt like I was a threat and I don’t see why they felt like I was a threat,” Hill said.
The body cam footage from the incident was released Monday just before his interview with NBC aired and the footage showed just how aggressive the police were during the situation with Hill.
A police union in South Florida released a statement Monday saying that Hill was uncooperative with police, which is an assertion the receiver strongly disagrees with.
“I feel like at the end of the day, if…
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Author : John Breech
Publish date : 2024-09-10 02:27:48
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