Tyreek Hill's teammates and coaches used words like "triggering" and a 'shame" to describe body camera footage showing a police officer yanking the Miami Dolphins receiver out of his sports car and forcing him face-first onto the ground during a traffic stop.
The incident outside the Dolphins' stadium has drawn national attention. It has also led to conversations in the locker room among Hill's teammates, some of whom privately shared their own personal experiences with police, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa said.
"It was a little emotional for me, hearing Tyreek's voice in the footage," Tagovailoa said Tuesday.
The video released by the Miami-Dade Police Department on Monday evening showed that the traffic stop hours before Miami's season opener escalated quickly after Hill put up the window of his car.
Hill rolled down the driver's side window and handed his license to an officer who had been knocking on the window. Hill then told the officer repeatedly to stop knocking before rolling the darkly tinted window back up.
