Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly specified that Hill's speed exceeded 100 mph. The police are reporting they clocked him at 60 mph. We apologize to our readers for this error. 

Last Sunday, a Dolphin (not the aquatic kind) was streaming down a Florida highway exceeding the speed limit. This Dolphin, Tyreek Hill, was apparently in a big hurry as he headed to Hard Rock Stadium, as it was Week One of the NFL season.

Hill is a shifty wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins, and maybe he was just locked into a “gameday” mode and not paying attention to his speed. But the local cops didn’t like that he was driving dangerously fast - over twice the speed limit on that highway. Like anyone clocked by the police going faster than Marty McFly in a DeLorean, Hill was pulled over. It wasn’t an “I stopped you because your taillight was out” stop. Hill was stopped because he was imitating “Fast and Furious” but with the potential of killing real people.   

We know for certain that the stop was lawful. Hill doesn’t dispute that part. It was conducted by traffic cops, which we know because all video of the incident shows Tyreek Hill surrounded by motorcycle cops (technically off their bikes) who, undoubtedly, were at the stadium for traffic control.  

Hill’s “ride” was a $350,000 McLaren 720S. That rocket-with-wheels has a top speed of over 212 mph and goes from 0-60 in 2.8 seconds.

Hill was appropriately pulled over, about a block short of the stadium. Maybe he assumed he would get a “GO FISH!” fist-pump from the officer because pro athletes have God complexes and egos the size of Manhattan. What happened next is up for debate.

What we know is this: Hill was driving fast enough to instantly kill someone crossing the street and he was handcuffed and ended up on the ground. But, I will happily speculate on the rest because everyone else in the media is speculating.  

Jamele Hill (no relation that I know of) took 2.8 seconds to conclude that Tyreek Hill was racially targeted, handcuffed, and abused because he is a black man and... Orange Man Bad. Race-baiting is the laziest and most predictable, knee-jerk in Jamele’s career. “Racism” is her reflex. She wrote: 

A reminder that Stephen Ross, owner of the Miami Dolphins, is a huge Donald Trump supporter — the same Trump who supports giving ALL police immunity from prosecution. Do with that what you will.

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 8, 2024

What, the... What? Yeah, ok Jamele. Never mind that Trump didn't say that, but what is new...

And Stephen A. Smith, ESPN's vastly overpaid loudmouth, stepped in to offer his take. Without a breath of context, Smith was sure that Tyreek Hill was targeted for... you know. 

Look for yourself. This is b.s. Totally unnecessary. And btw…., I know the Scottie Scheffler incident was in Georgia — not Florida — and he was arrested, detained, booked. I also know we don’t know all the details, blah….blah…..blah! But he wasn’t faced down on the ground in… https://t.co/JfeKOlh5Mf

— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) September 8, 2024

Tyreek Hill mocked his detention during the Dolphins vs Jacksonville game with a "cuff me" exhibition. After the game, he claimed the following:

After the game, Hill told reporters that he was not disrespectful toward the officers and did not use profanity.>

"Right now, I'm still trying to put it all together. ... I still don't know what happened," Hill said. "But I do want to use this platform to say, 'What if I wasn't Tyreek Hill?' Worst-case scenario, you know?

And:

Hill told NBC on Monday he was opening his door to get out of the car when officers dragged him out.

“If I wasn’t Tyreek Hill, lord knows, I probably would have been like, worst-case scenario, I would have been shot or would have been locked up” and “put behind bars, you know, for a simple speeding ticket,” Hill told NBC News.

“And that’s crazy that officers would take it, you know, to that level.”

You can watch the bodycam video and judge for yourself if Hill was "cooperative." 

It's abundantly clear who was "in the wrong" and who was doing their job. The officer asks Hill why he doesn’t have a seatbelt on. Hill doesn’t answer and repeatedly says, “Don’t knock on my window like that.”  

The officer asks why Hill had his window up and says he had to knock to let Hill know he was there. 

“Give me my ticket, bro, so I can go, I’m going to be late. Do what you got to do,” Hill says before rolling up the window.  

His explanation was that he was “late for the game.” When Hill is being removed from the car for not obeying lawful orders, his first reaction is to call his agent.  

You can hear him saying: "I'm being arrested, Drew [Rosenhous]! I'm being arrested, Drew!"  

Don’t bother Hill with obeying laws – he's above that. Ticket him, you commoner, and let the Gladiator go to the stadium. Put the ticket on the windshield. And Hill insinuating that he was in danger of being shot is disgusting race-baiting nonsense.  

This, simply, was a pro athlete with a God-complex, an: "I'm better than you" elitist who wouldn’t comply with lawful orders. Hill’s jerk agent, Drew Rosenhous, has vowed to sue.   

I was ambivalent about the Dolphins, but with Hill on the team, I will actively root for them, to lose.