“Doesn’t Pull a Gun Out”: Mike Florio Assigns Fault at Tyreek Hill’s Tinted Window, Before Blaming Miami Police

There are always two sides to a story, right? Wrong! “There’s one side, there’s another side, then there’s the truth”. On that note, Mike Florio attempted to dive into Tyreek Hill’s recent run in with the Miami-Dade Police Department after he was cited for overspeeding. But there’s more to the story than meets the eye.

Former NFL Safety, Devin McCourty, had a chat with Mike Florio about the incident. Per him, Tyreek Hill was in the wrong for rolling the windows up on his McLaren 720s. That made the police officer more skeptical of the receiver. But things changed when another cop came in and forcibly opened the door and went a bit overboard. Florio added more to the unforeseen scenario.

Though Hill got forcefully pulled out of his car and later got cuffed, Florio is not convinced about the current mainstream narrative of this situation. Florio iterated past incidents where the officer approaching the car was “s-ot” in the “context of a stop.” Hill had tinted windows on his supercar so the officer might have been a bit alert about the situation.

As Florio sees it, “You don’t know what’s going on inside the car. Window down, window stays down. It’s not a power play there. Some of the stuff that the officers will do is a little bit of a power play. Some of the stuff that you’re going to see in a second, a little bit of a power play. But wanting a window down is a safety play. Wanting the window down is, ‘I want to make sure that guy doesn’t pull a gun out of his glove compartment and sh—t me play,’” Florio explained on NFL on NBC on YouTube and later added, “The reaction was still in my opinion, excessive.”

The body cam footage of Hill’s arrest is out, and it revealed the whole incident, not just bits and pieces. The video shows the police asking Hill to pull over. After some resistance, he did. “Don’t knock on my windows like that,” Hill kept repeating to the officer, who got frustrated and asked him to get out of the car. The WR didn’t “immediately” comply, and so, a second officer jumped in, opened the door, and with an angry voice said, “get out!”

The officer forced Hill on the ground with his face down and cuffed him. Hill didn’t resist the arrest but asked where he went wrong. At that point, Jonnu Smith and Calais Campbell joined in.

What Calais Campbell witnessed of Tyree Hill’s arrest

“I had surgery on my knee,” Hill said as he pleaded the officers to take it easy. It was at that point when the Miami Dolphins defensive tackle Calais Campbell showed up. As he was approaching, the officer told him to “back off right now,” or he would “handcuff him.” Calais shared his experience in a post-game presser after the Dolphins beat the Jags 20-17.

“I was driving to the game. The lane I’m in is blocked. I see Tyreek in handcuffs. I’d seen, I feel like excessive force, so I get out of the car to kind of just try to deescalate the situation and I think the officer just – I don’t know why he felt the need to put me in handcuffs, but I mean it is what it is,” Campbell told the media.

The officer then proceeded to talk to Jonnu Smith, who was already engaged on the phone. The official asked him to take out his license and told him that he’d give him a ticket otherwise. Meanwhile, Tyreek Hill was still struggling with the police officers. The body cam shows that Hill was stopped at 10:17 in the morning, Miami time, and the incident lasted for about 6 minutes.

The game against the Jags was just a couple of hours away, but Hill made it to the Hard Rock Stadium somehow. The Miami Dolphins later issued a statement that hearing about their players getting arrested was “maddening and heartbreaking to watch,” and asked the MDPD to take swift actions on the officers who “serve with misguided power.”

One thing is for sure, this might have been a life-changing, thought-provoking incident for Hill, who later expressed that he left like he would have been s-ot if he wasn’t famous. However, what he’s thankful for is that his pregnant wife, Keeta Vaccaro didn’t have to watch the incident with her own eyes.