One of the police officers involved in the shocking arrest of Tyreek Hill didn’t know they had handcuffed a high-profile NFL star.
The Miami Dolphins receiver was pulled from his car, pinned to the ground and handcuffed before Sunday’s game against the Jaguars.
Body camera footage from Miami-Dade officers emerged Monday, and one clip, shared by CBS, showed Hill’s profile was lost on some at the scene.
“Why is he acting like that?” one officer asked as Hill could be heard yelling in the background. “You know who he is, right?”
The other officer replied, “No?” They were then informed that he was “one of the Dolphins’ star players,” to which they replied, “Oh, yeah?”
Minutes earlier, the wide receiver was handcuffed near Hard Rock Stadium as he headed to the Dolphins’ season opener against Jacksonville. “Take me to jail … do whatever you have to do,” Hill told officers.
Officers were heard telling the NFL star to “stop crying” after pulling him out of his car and placing him face down in the road.
“When we tell you to do something, you do it. Do you understand? Not what you want, but what we tell you. You’re a little confused,” one officer told him.
A Florida police union said Hill was driving dangerously when he was stopped in Miami on Sunday and that he was handcuffed after refusing to cooperate. Hill said He has no idea what led to his arrest.
