A police officer dragged Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill out of his car and then forced him face first on to the ground during a traffic stop

A police officer dragged Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill out of his car and then forced him face first on to the ground during a traffic stop

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 months ago

    What abuse? You’re allowed to put cuffs on someone who won’t step out of a running vehicle.

    Was he tackled down? Tazed? Punched? Beaten? Bleeding? Pepper sprayed?

    • kandoh@reddthat.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Why are you being hostile to me when I’m agreeing with you? Don’t show proper respect to agent of the state = slap them in cuffs, throw them on the ground, lock them up for however long needed to teach the animals respect for authority.

      Its so strange you’re reacting negatively to us agreeing with one another

    • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      He was compliant literally the second they opened his unlocked door. Why do they need to dogpile him?

        • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          We can see the video. The literal second they open his unlocked door he tells them he’s getting out. They drag him out anyways. Then they dog pile him and he lets them do whatever they want to him. After he’s cuffed they control him with one officer and nothing more severe than a tap on his shoulder.

          They absolutely escalated the situation beyond where it needed to be.

          • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Youre right. You can see the video. He’s told four or five times to get out of the car before it was opened by the cop. Then Hill says he’s getting out, but doesn’t actually move to get out. Until he’s quasi pulled out, but the cops didn’t give a whole lot of time on that part. Saying you’re going to do something, but not actually doing it is something I even run into a lot as an emt. We just never escalate the situation with any force unless there isn’t another option and the person is in a situation where they legally have to go to the hospital. Cops are usually much less patient, but they deal with a different portion of the public a lot of times.

            Bottom line is that the cops may have been assholes or not, but Hill wasn’t doing anything to try and keep the stop calm or civil. He was being a dick. Just like he’s been a dick all his life, right back to punching and choking his pregnant girlfriend back in college and all the way on up. Then having the gull to tell some Mexican cops that they pulled him over because he was black and in a nice car, like playing the race card is supposed to work against a hispanic dude.