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Tyreek Hill is detained by police before Dolphins game. Officer is subsequently placed on leave

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.
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Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill speaks during an NFL football post game news conference, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024, in Miami Gardens, Fla. The Dolphins defeated the Jaguars 20-17. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) 鈥 Tyreek Hill of the Miami Dolphins was handcuffed and placed face down on a street outside the team's stadium after he was stopped for speeding and reckless driving Sunday morning before , an incident that left the star wide receiver baffled and resulted in a police officer being placed on administrative leave.

The officer, who was not identified, was one of at least three involved in detaining Hill. Some fans saw Hill being handcuffed and captured video on their way to the game, and it quickly on social media.

Miami-Dade Police director Stephanie V. Daniels said she had launched an internal affairs investigation.

Told after the game that the officer was placed on leave pending the outcome of the investigation, Hill said: 鈥淭hat should tell you everything you need to know.鈥

Added defensive tackle Calais Campbell, who was also briefly handcuffed after coming to his teammate鈥檚 aid: 鈥淭hat makes sense based on the situation.鈥

Hill, who said he respects police officers and wants to be one when he retires from football, said he 鈥渉ad no idea鈥 why police placed him in handcuffs.

鈥淚 wasn鈥檛 disrespectful because my mom didn鈥檛 raise me that way,鈥 Hill said. 鈥淒idn鈥檛 cuss. Didn鈥檛 do none of that. Like I said, I鈥檓 still trying to figure it out, man.鈥

Hill starred on the field for the Dolphins, catching seven passes for 130 yards 鈥 including that helped Miami rally for a 20-17 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars. Hill celebrated the score by mimicking being handcuffed.

Hill, who is Black, said he didn't want to use his celebrity to get out of the situation but wondered what would鈥檝e happened if he weren鈥檛 an NFL star.

鈥淚 don鈥檛 want to bring race into it, but sometimes it gets kind of iffy when you do,鈥 he said. 鈥淲hat if I wasn鈥檛 Tyreek Hill? Lord knows what that guy or guys would have done. I was just making sure that I was doing what my uncle always told me to do whenever you鈥檙e in a situation like that: 鈥楯ust listen, put your hands on the steering wheel and just listen.鈥欌

Daniels said in a statement earlier Sunday that she requested an 鈥渋mmediate review鈥 of the details surrounding the incident, adding that the department would review available body camera footage.

In a later statement, Daniels said: 鈥淚'm committed to transparency and accountability to the community with any situation involving my officers."

Hill said everything happened so fast it caught him off guard.

鈥淚鈥檓 just glad that my teammates were there to support me in that situation because I felt alone,鈥 Hill added.

Campbell said he was driving into Hard Rock Stadium when he saw Hill handcuffed, and he stopped to help. The 17-year NFL veteran ended up in handcuffs as well, saying officers told him it was because he disobeyed their direct orders.

鈥淚鈥檇 seen, I feel like excessive force, so I get out of the car to kind of just try to de-escalate the situation,鈥 Campbell said, also calling the incident 鈥渁 bit extreme.鈥

Hill, who led the NFL in receiving yards in 2023, said he spoke to his wife and family after he was detained and before the game kicked off.

His agent, Drew Rosenhaus, called it a 鈥渉eartbreaking situation鈥 on ESPN.

鈥淗ow things escalated into the situation that they were in, in handcuffs and being held on the ground with police, is mindboggling to me,鈥 Rosenhaus said. "I'm deeply concerned by that. Very troubled. We will be looking into it. We will be investigating this. We will look out for Tyreek, but I'm not going to make any allegations at this time. The most important thing is Tyreek is OK physically, mentally he was very distraught about what happened.鈥

It isn't the first off-field incident involving Hill.

He was accused of punching his girlfriend in college and got kicked off the team at Oklahoma State. In 2019, prosecutors in suburban Kansas City involving his fiancee and their 3-year-old child.

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said the league has been in contact with the Dolphins about Sunday's incident, but declined to comment further.

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Alanis Thames, The Associated Press

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