Tyreek Hill was found handcuffed and face-down on the pavement after being arrested by Miami police for reckless driving near Hard Rock Stadium before a Dolphins game.
“People are looking for the next George Floyd, so I think that's why they're making such a fuss about what happened to Tyreek Hill,” Fearless' Jason Whitlock said, noting that a similar thing happened to golfer Scottie Scheffler.
But because Scheffler is white, no one cared.
“Unbelievable. Tyreek Hill was briefly restrained and taken to the ground before being allowed to continue playing the football,” Whitlock said. “Jemel Hill somehow connected this to owner Stephen Ross, tweeting, 'Please remember that Miami Dolphins owner Steve Ross is a huge Donald Trump fan. Trump supports granting all police immunity. Any way you want to interpret that.'”
“They're trying to politicize this right away. There's no truth or fairness here. It's like, 'Oh, we have George Floyd, we can use this, Tyreek Hill was handcuffed for a short time, so all of America is racist,'” Whitlock scoffed.
Stephen A. Smith calls what happened to Hill “totally unnecessary” and is seriously pushing political racism.
In a post on X, Smith wrote, “I know that the Scottie Scheffler incident happened in Georgia, not Florida, and I know that he was arrested, detained and booked. I also know that we don't know all the details. But he was not handcuffed, thrown to the ground and forced to sit down by officers a second time. No, that can't be. This story is not going away, and it doesn't need to go away.”
Whitlock noted that Hill has been accused of domestic violence and has several “baby mamas,” so he's not a completely innocent man anyway.
“People behave in a way that's inconsistent, in a way that's disconnected, that's, 'Hey, just because I'm irresponsible here doesn't mean I'm irresponsible here,'” he said, adding: “Yes, that's true. Irresponsible people are going to do irresponsible things.”
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