Traffic warnings for Dolphins’ Tyreek Hill rejected

Traffic citations issued to Miami Dolphins star wide receiver Tyreek Hill following an altercation with police in September were dismissed because the charging officers did not attend the hearing.

Hill’s tickets for reckless driving and failure to wear a seatbelt were rescinded after Miami-Dade Police officers failed to show up for a hearing on Monday. The tickets were issued after Hill was stopped outside Hard Rock Stadium for allegedly speeding ahead of the Dolphins’ season opener on Sept. 8. The stop escalated in intensity and an officer pulled Hill from the car, forced him to the ground, and handcuffed him.

“Where are all the internet police now?” Hill wrote in his post on social platform X on Tuesday. he said.

Miami-Dade Police said the officers’ failure to appear at the hearing was “overlooked” and that “the matter will be handled administratively.” Still, the department defended issuing Hill the tickets.

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“Therefore, a rejected citation does not mean that the citation has no value,” the agency said in a statement. he said.

Police body camera video from the September stop showed Hill speeding past two motorcycle officers monitoring traffic on the road outside the stadium. They pulled over his McLaren sports car and someone tapped on his window. Hill, 30, gave the officer his driver’s license but repeatedly told the officer “Don’t knock on my window like that” and then opened his window again.

Their verbal exchange escalated and officers soon pulled him from the car, forcing Hill to lie face down on the ground. The officers cursed at Hill, but in the video Hill did not resist their physical force or attack them. “Don’t tell me what to do,” he told a police officer.

Hill eventually stood up, but a police officer then dragged him to a sitting position on the sidewalk when he said his knee injury made that difficult.

About 30 minutes later, Hill was issued a citation and allowed into the stadium.

An officer was placed on administrative duty and an internal affairs investigation was launched. No results were announced.