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Topline Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill was briefly detained and handcuffed by police near the team’s Hard Rock Stadium due to a traffic incident Sunday morning before being released and playing in Sunday’s game—prompting the Miami-Dade Police Department to open an investigation, move an officer to administrative work and release body camera footage of the incident. Tyreek Hill talks to the media during a Miami Dolphins press conference at PSD Bank Arena on ..
. [+] November 02, 2023 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Key Facts Hill was pulled over for a minor traffic incident while entering the stadium area, according to NFL Network , with ESPN reporting he was stopped for speeding and reckless driving.
ESPN reports Hill was handcuffed after a verbal altercation with police, citing unnamed sources. Hill received a ticket for a moving violation, his agent Drew Rosenhaus told ESPN—calling the police’s handling of the issue “heartbreaking” and “mind-boggling.” “Several teammates saw the incident and stopped to offer support,” the Dolphins said in a tweet, adding all of the involved players are available to play in Sunday’s game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Dolphins defensive tackle Calais Campbell was one of Hill’s teammates who got involved, and was also detained in police custody prior to Sunday’s game, the Miami Herald reported. Rosenhaus reportedly said on NFL Network Sunday he thought Hill would “clear his mind, calm down and get through it,” and Hill did play in Sunday’s game and scored an 80-yard touchdown in the third quarter. The Miami-Dade Police Department said Sunday an internal affairs probe had begun, and one of the officers involved in the incident has been “placed on administrative duties while the investigation is conducted.
” In a clip of body camera footage released—of which there is almost two hours, the Miami Herald reported—Hill is seen being removed from his car and taken to the ground after a dispute with officers seemingly about his window being rolled up. Miami-Dade Police Department Director Stephanie Daniels said in a statement Monday the footage was released in an effort to “reinforce the Department’s commitment to keeping the public informed” and the investigation is continuing. Breaking News Text Alerts: We’re launching text message alerts so you'll always know the biggest stories shaping the day’s headlines.
Text “Alerts” to (201) 335-0739 or sign up here . Chief Critic Rosenhaus reportedly told NFL Network “this shouldn’t happen to a player entering his own stadium” and “there’s no reason Tyreek should have been treated that way,” adding they’ll look into what happened more after the game. Key Background Hill has played on the Dolphins since 2022 and played for the Kansas City Chiefs for six seasons prior to that.
Hill has had legal issues in the past: In 2014, Hill was kicked off of the Oklahoma State University football team after he pleaded guilty to domestic assault and battery for attacking his then-pregnant fiancée, the Miami Herald reported. His conviction was expunged in 2018, but Hill was investigated again in 2019 after his three-year-old son broke his arm and child welfare investigators removed the child from Hill’s custody. The Kansas City Star reported prosecutors thought a crime was committed against the child but they couldn’t prove who did it, so no charges were brought against Hill.
Tangent Some fans compared Hill being pulled over before Sunday’s game to the arrest of PGA player Scottie Scheffler, who was detained earlier this year while pulling into the site of the PGA championship. The charges against Scheffler—which included a felony charge for assaulting a police officer and three misdemeanors—were ultimately dropped . Further Reading.
