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Pre-game incident with police ‘just went from 0 to 60’

Tyreek Hill on Monday detailed his detention by Miami-Dade police before Sunday's Dolphins-Jaguars game at Hard Rock Stadium.

According to ESPN, Hill was stopped by police just outside the stadium and charged with careless driving and a seat belt violation before being released at the scene.

In the first in-depth interview, he told NBC News. The situation “went from 0 to 60.”

Dolphins star Tyreek Hill AP

The interview was published online shortly before Miami-Dade Police released more than 105 minutes of body camera footage related to the incident.

“The minute they pulled up behind me and knocked on the window, it went from zero to 60,” Hill told the outlet.

Hill has expressed concerns about what would have happened if he hadn't been a well-known football player, and he reiterated those concerns in an interview with NBC News.

“If I wasn't Tyreek Hill, God knows, worst case scenario, I'd be shot or in jail,” he said. “It's just a speeding ticket, and it's insane that a cop would treat it like that.”

Body camera footage from the scene showed at least one of the officers did not know the person they had stopped and detained.

“Do you know who that is?” one officer is seen asking another in one of the videos released.

“That's one of the Dolphins' star players,” the officer said, to which his fellow officer replied, “No.”

In an interview with NBC, Hill also said he was grateful his wife, Keita, wasn't in the car when the incident occurred, as she would normally have accompanied him to the stadium.

Hill was pulled from the car by multiple officers.

“I was so relieved that she wasn't. [there]Because if they were trying to drag my wife out of the car, God knows what, [have] “There was no accident,” Hill said. “We're lucky she wasn't in the car.”

Body camera footage released by police revealed a clearer picture of Sunday morning's chaotic incident.

Hill appeared to not respond to officers' commands as quickly as they would have liked, and the situation escalated from there.

The South Florida Police Benevolent Association tried to pin the blame on Hill, claiming he “did not immediately cooperate.”

Tyreek Hill is detained by police outside Hard Rock Stadium before a Dolphins game on September 8, 2024. Nolan Freed

In a post on X on Monday night, Hill seemed hopeful that something good could come out of all of this.

“Let's make a difference,” he wrote.

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