Miami Dolphins Player Slams Police for Handcuffing Teammate Tyreek Hill Before Season Opener: ‘Excessive Force on a Black Man’

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Miami Dolphins safety Jevon Holland criticized local police for the way they treated star receiver Tyreek Hill during his detainment Sunday before their game.

Hill was pulled over for speeding right outside Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. According to ESPN’s Jeff Darlington, Hill got into a verbal altercation with police during the stop. In response, police told him to exit his car and had him lay on the street to handcuff him.

Not long after the footage was posted, the officers receiver a great deal of backlash online. Stephen A. Smith called it “wrong” and “excessive.”

After the Dolphins beat the Jaguars 20-17 in their season opener, Holland expressed the same sentiment.

“That was crazy,” Holland said of the arrest. “I was stretching and I saw on the TV that bro got arrested; and then I saw the clip. [The] cop kicked him or something. That was crazy. So, that’s gotta get handled. Excessive force on a Black man. That’s not uncommon. That’s a very common thing in America, so I think that needs to be addressed at a country-wide level. I don’t think that shit is cool at all, but it’s not unnatural or not uncommon for cops to do that type of — especially to Black men — so that needs to be addressed, for sure.”

Miami-Dade Police Director Stephanie V. Daniels announced one of the officers involved in the arrest was placed on administrative leave.

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