Tyreek Hill wants the Miami-Dade Police Department officer who handcuffed and detained him Sunday to be fired.
“Gone. He gotta go, man,” the Miami Dolphins receiver told reporters Wednesday. “In that instance right there, not only did he treat me bad, he also treated my teammates with disrespect. He had some crazy words towards them and they didn’t even do nothing. Like, what did they do to you? They’re just walking on the sidewalk.”
“There’s not too many times when you can say people gotta go, but ‘You…out!'”
Tyreek Hill calls for the dismissal of the Miami-Dade officer who handled his detainment — as only Hill can. pic.twitter.com/mIkcHRAvhi
— David Furones (@DavidFurones_) September 11, 2024
Body cam footage of the incident released Monday showed Dolphins tight end Jonnu Smith and defensive lineman Calais Campbell arrive on the scene to help their teammate. Campbell was eventually handcuffed for not leaving the scene.
The officer who handcuffed Campbell was the same who pulled Hill from his car and pinned him to the ground, handcuffed him, and eventually forced him to the ground a second time.
“I will say I could’ve been better,” Hill said. “I could’ve let down my window in that instant, but the thing about me is I don’t want attention. I don’t want to be cameras out, phones on you in that moment. But at the end of the day I’m human. I’ve got to follow rules, I’ve got to do what everyone else would do. Now, does that give them the right to literally beat the dog out of me? Absolutely not. But at the end of the day, I wish I could go back and do things a bit differently.”
Hill’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, also called for the dismissal of the officer in an interview with Dan Le Batard earlier this week.
“I think the police officers that did that to Tyreek shouldn’t be in that position. They should be let go,” Rosenhaus said.
The attorneys for MDPD officer Danny Torres who has been placed on administrative duty during an investigation, called for him to be put back on patrol duties.
“We call for our client’s immediate reinstatement, and a complete, thorough, and objective investigation, as Director Daniels has also advocated,” attorneys Anthony Ignacio Alvarez and Israel Reyes wrote in a statement.
The Dolphins released a statement Monday night, calling for MDPD to “take equally swift and strong action against the officers who engaged in such despicable behavior.”
On Tuesday, Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa said that Hill has talked to leaders on the team about turning the situation into one that yields positive change.
“Tyreek has gathered a group of us together to do something, to help change some things,” Tagovailoa said. “He’s come up with a couple ideas and we’ve gathered to talk about what we wanted to do. … I thought there were some good conversations, and they weren’t just conversations of us just siding with Tyreek. It was more so conversations of also understanding like how things could have been different, just all of that.”
