‘Violent conduct’: Miami Dolphins speak out after Tyreek Hill handcuffed on ground in traffic stop
(MIAMI) — The NFL’s Miami Dolphins franchise spoke out Monday night about the traffic stop by police officers where wide receiver Tyreek Hill was removed from his vehicle, placed on the ground and handcuffed before Sunday’s season opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
In its statement, the organization said it was “saddened by the overly aggressive and violent conduct directed toward” Hill on Sunday, urging “swift and strong action against the officers” involved in the incident.
Hill was detained and handcuffed on the ground after being pulled over as he was driving up to Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday around 10:20 a.m. ET.
“It is both maddening and heartbreaking to watch the very people we trust to protect our community use such unnecessary force and hostility towards these players,” the Dolphins’ organization said.
The statement from the team follows the release of officer body camera footage of the incident by Miami-Dade Police on Monday night.
In the footage, which ABC News has reviewed, a motorcycle officer pulls over Hill and approaches the driver’s side window. Hill rolls down the window and tells the officer to stop knocking on the window.
Hill then asks for his ticket and tells the officer he’s going to be late before rolling the car window back up.
The officer then asks the wide receiver to roll the window down, and Hill cracks it open a little. The officer then tells Hill, “Get out of the car right now. We’re not playing this game.”
When Hill opens the door, the newly released footage shows the officer grabbing Hill’s hand and putting it behind Hill’s head. The officer then appears to drag Hill out of the car.
The videos then shows the officer putting Hill’s face down on the ground with two other officers assisting. One officer has his knee on Hill’s back until Hill is handcuffed, the videos show.
Approximately six minutes into the incident, body camera footage shows an assisting officer looking at Hill’s ID. He can be heard saying, “You know who that is, right?”
The first officer said he didn’t know and then was told Hill was one of the Dolphins’ star players.
In a statement from Hill’s attorney, Julius B. Collins, describing the incident, Collins said Hill “had his window rolled down and that officer then demanded Mr. Hill out of the vehicle even after Mr. Hill complied with that officer’s request to keep his window down.”
Collins said in his statement, “Hill rolled down his window each time he was requested to do so by the requesting officers.” He went on to call the officers’ actions “excessive” and said they were exploring all legal remedies.
“We believe that this matter was escalated due to overzealous officers attempting to impose their authority on Mr. Hill because they were not pleased with how fast he complied with their request and that Mr. Hill did not roll down his window far enough to their liking,” he added.
When asked about the incident after the game, Hill told reporters, “I wasn’t disrespectful… because my mom didn’t raise me that way, didn’t curse, none of that.”
South Florida Police Benevolent Association president Steadman Stahl released a statement Monday saying Hill’s refusal to cooperate with officers led to his detainment.
“He was briefly detained for officer safety, after driving in a manner in which he was putting himself and others in great risk of danger,” Stahl said. “Upon being stopped, Mr. Hill was not immediately cooperative with the officers on scene who, pursuant to policy and for their immediate safety, placed Mr. Hill in handcuffs.”
Miami-Dade Police Department director Stephanie V. Daniels said in a statement along with the body camera footage Monday that the “department is committed to conducting a thorough, objective investigation into this matter.”
“We will continue to update the public on the outcome of that process,” Daniels said.
Daniels also said one of the officers involved was placed on “administrative duty.”
(PARIS) — He’s become the face of Team USA’s Men’s track and field, and he’s close to becoming the fastest man on Earth — just don’t call him the “next Usain Bolt.”
He tells us he will only ever be the “first Noah Lyles.”
And, if you believe his confidence, it’s only a matter of time before he gets there.
“I realized that I had this talent. I just see that. Yeah, I’m going to be the fastest person on Earth,” Lyles said. “And, of course, I haven’t achieved that yet. But being the third fastest person to ever live is not bad either.”
The 27-year-old sprinter, who is from Alexandria, Virginia, is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics for Team USA. He’ll run the 100-meter, which begins Saturday, followed by the 200-meter, which kicks off Monday. He won a bronze in the 200-meter in the Tokyo 2020 games.
He followed his first Olympic medal by winning the 100-meter, 200-meter and 4×100-meter races at the 2023 world championships, a feat that “made him the first man since Usain Bolt in 2015 to complete the sprint treble,” according to Lyles’ official Team USA profile.
Known for his showmanship and his speed, Lyles is also a vocal advocate for mental health.
When we asked how he stays healthy living under all this pressure, he said, “I’ve got three therapists, that helps. But also, I’m very big on creating boundaries … I don’t take pictures or interact when I’m … eating or with my girlfriend or when I’m training.”
He said he was meant for the stage, and his goal — besides turning his recent American record in the 200-meter into a world record — is to hype up track and field all year round.
He likes to have entrance music — “We Will Rock You,” Queen’s rock anthem, was a recent favorite — and says “it’s not about the win, it’s about how you win.”
“You know, people grab on to that, they want a story,” he added. “They want somebody to connect to, let’s give them those personalities, we have tons of it in our sport. And I just feel that we need just a better way to just show that to the rest of the world.”
Another way Lyles shows his team spirit? His nails.
Right now he’s sporting blue polish with the word “ICON” written across his nails. (He tells us he also has an “ICON” tattoo.)
But he said he’s going to get a more patriotic set here in Paris before he races. His nails have become so famous, he tells us Snoop Dog asked him if he could get his nails done by the same manicurist while they’re both in Paris.
(PARIS) — From Bacon (both Sarah, a diver, and Phoebe, a swimmer) to Coffey (both Olivia, a rower, and Sam, a soccer player), Team USA will be sending a veritable smorgasbord of talent to Paris for the 2024 Olympics.
You probably know the big names — such as gymnast Simone Biles and swimmer Katie Ledecky — but there are 592 U.S. Olympians competing in Paris.
The returning members of Team USA have already won 110 gold medals before arriving in Paris, led by swimmers Ledecky (seven) and Caeleb Dressel (seven) and women’s basketball player Diana Taurasi (five). Ledecky also has the most total medals (10) while Biles has seven total medals, including four gold. No one else on the team has more than four gold.
Not sure who else to pay attention to in Paris? We’ve compiled a list of the 10 Americans to know when the Summer Games kick off this weekend.
Chase Budinger, beach volleyball
If you think you remember a basketball player named Chase Budinger, who played eight seasons in the NBA and was co-MVP of the McDonald’s All-American Game in 2006 alongside Kevin Durant, you’re probably confused why “beach volleyball” is next to his name above. But no, that’s not a typo.
Budinger, the California Basketball Player of the Year in his senior season in high school, hung up his basketball shoes in 2017 and hit the beach for his second-best sport — volleyball. Then again, maybe it’s his best sport?
The 36-year-old was actually a huge volleyball recruit in high school, too. But he passed up playing the indoor game for a college basketball career at Arizona. Now, he and partner Miles Evans will be heading to Paris to play beach volleyball as part of Team USA.
Evans and Budinger only started playing together last year, but they are the U.S.’s No. 2 team behind Andy Benesh and Miles Partain. Partain, just 22 years old, and Benesh are a great story in their own right and probably a better bet to win gold from the U.S. teams. They’re ranked No. 9 in the world.
But Budinger and Evans are ranked No. 13 and have two tournament wins in less than 20 matches as partners.
Katie Moon, pole vault
There was definitely a pun to be made with Moon’s last name, but for now we’ll just focus on her out-of-this-world talent.
Moon, then known by her maiden name, Nageotte, won gold in pole vault in Tokyo and followed that up with world titles in 2022 and 2023. She also took home top honors on the Diamond League circuit (a regular season, so to speak) last year.
Her toughest competition will likely be Great Britain’s Molly Caudery, who has also grabbed headlines for her modeling work, and Australia’s Nina Kennedy, who won at the last Diamond League event before the Olympics. Caudery won the indoor world championships in March and has the world best this year (4.92 meters).
Moon can be a streaky jumper. She finished eighth (last place) at last week’s London Diamond League event and was upset by unheralded (and unsponsored) Bridget Williams in the U.S. Olympic trials.
But Moon’s personal best of 4.95 meters, set ahead of the Tokyo Games, is better than any of her competitors and back-to-back gold is easily within her reach.
Katie Grimes, swimming
Theoretically, swimming is swimming, no matter where you are doing it. But it’s unusual for a talented swimmer in the pool to also compete in open-water swimming. No American woman had ever done both until this year.
Grimes will be doing the double in Paris, swimming in the 1,500 meters and the 400-meter individual medley indoors as well as the 10-kilometer open-water event — still scheduled to be held in the Seine River as long as no one’s skin melts off during training.
Grimes is actually a bit of a prodigy. She was Team USA’s youngest member in Tokyo at just 15 years old. At 18, she’s still one of the youngest Americans at the Games (gymnast Hezly Rivera, 16, is the youngest).
She had already qualified for Paris in the open-water event before showing up at the indoor swim trials in Indianapolis last month by taking bronze in the 10-kilometer outdoor event in July 2023. She was actually the first American to make the U.S. team in any sport.
No woman has ever won a medal in their career in both the pool and open-water competition (though it has happened on the men’s side). Grimes has a real chance to do both in the same Olympics.
Salif Mane, triple jump
No slight to Fairleigh Dickinson University, but the New Jersey school isn’t exactly known as a track and field powerhouse. In fact, Mane was the only competitor from FDU at the NCAA track and field championships in Eugene, Oregon, last month as he wrapped up his senior season.
That didn’t stop the triple jumper from winning Fairleigh Dickinson’s first individual national title in any sport and then upsetting everyone at the U.S. Olympic trials.
Mane jumped a personal best 17.52 meters at the U.S. Olympic trials just weeks after setting a previous personal best (17.14 meters) at the NCAA championships.
Now the Bronx native has a chance to continue a legacy in triple jump for the U.S., which has won five of the last 10 gold medals in the event.
Tara Davis-Woodhall, long jump
Mane was a jumper who wasn’t on many people’s radar not long ago, but Davis-Woodhall has been a star jumper with gold medal potential for awhile. She won gold in junior world championships and even broke future Olympian Marion Jones’ California high school state record that had stood since 1993 (well before she was born).
She’s hardly been a disappointment on the senior level, but Davis-Woodhall is finally realizing her full potential. No doubt the most exuberant and outgoing member of Team USA — she’s never not bouncing around with a megawatt smile — she is currently ranked No. 1 in the world in long jump.
Davis-Woodhall, who is married to three-time Paralympic medalist Hunter Woodhall, finished second in the U.S. Olympic trials in 2021 and qualified for the Olympics as well. But the then-22-year-old finished a disappointing sixth at the Tokyo Games.
The weight of expectations appeared to lie heavily on her shoulders at this year’s trials. She scratched on both her first two jumps in the finals, but qualified to continue on with her third and final jump. but she qualified for the Paris Games on her last jump of the competition.
Davis has had the best season of her career, finishing first in every competition she’s competed in, including a win in the indoor world championships in March. She hasn’t competed in any Diamond League events, but has the second-best jump (7.18 meters) in the world this year. Germany’s Malaika Mihambo, the gold medalist in Tokyo and the owner of the longest jump in the world this year (7.22 meters), will be Davis-Woodhall’s stiffest competition.
Fiona O’Keeffe, marathon
There’s beginner’s luck and then there’s just beginner’s talent. O’Keeffe, who won at the U.S. Olympic trials in the first professional marathon of her life, hopes it’s the latter.
The 26-year-old literally put her blood, sweat and tears into her first marathon in Orlando back in February. She crossed the finish line in 2 hours, 22 minutes and 10 seconds — a trials record — with her bib covered in blood, which she ascribed to a “little chafing situation.”
O’Keeffe was an All-American at Stanford University as a 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter runner before taking her talent to the road.
Medalling in Paris is unlikely given the depth of the Ethiopian and Kenyan teams, but she has huge potential in a discipline that is traditionally dominated by veteran runners.
Jimmer Fredette, 3×3 basketball
“College player” is a derisive term that has plagued college basketball and football players for decades. From Tim Tebow to Adam Morrison to Charlie Ward (in both sports), the names are well-known by sports fans.
Fredette, who was a star at Brigham Young University, was given the label well before he even left college. He still developed a legion of fans for his reputation as a gunner and ultimate competitor (think Caitlin Clark before Caitlin Clark). He led the nation in scoring as a senior in 2010-11, earning Associated Press player of the year honors, and setting just about every scoring record in BYU history.
He was drafted 10th overall by the Sacramento Kings in 2011, but bounced around to the Chicago Bulls, New Orleans Pelicans, New York Knicks and Phoenix Suns in an unremarkable NBA career. He was certainly never close to making the men’s Olympic basketball team.
And yet, at 35 years old, more than five years removed from his last game in the NBA, he’s shooting for gold in Paris as a member of the U.S. 3×3 basketball team — a half-court, outdoor version of the game that debuted in Tokyo. (The U.S. men’s team didn’t even qualify for the Tokyo Games, so this is technically the United States’ debut in the sport.)
Jimmermania has been revived again.
Kennedy Blades, wrestling
Blades already has the coolest name on the U.S. team, but now she’s looking for some hardware in Paris.
The 20-year-old from Chicago, who is already posing for photos in Paris with Snoop Dogg and getting praise from MMA legend Jon Jones, is a rising star in wrestling — and maybe combat sports in general (can it be long before the UFC comes calling?).
Blades barely missed the Tokyo Games, losing to Tamyra Mensah-Stock in the final match in the 76 kg weight class, at just 17. Mensah-Stock went on to win gold in 2021 and Blades’ profile in the sport skyrocketed. She was used to defying expectations though, becoming the first girl to win a state title against boys in the annual Illinois Kids Wrestling Federation tournament at just 12 years old.
Blades defeated Adeline Gray, a six-time world champion who took the silver medal in Tokyo, to qualify for Paris.
Her timeline for greatness has moved up.
Emma Hunt, climbing
It will take the women’s Olympic gold medalist about 10.5 seconds to run the 100-meter dash. Hunt wonders why they waste so much time.
The 21-year-old — who was ranked No. 1 in the world at just 18 — owns the American speed climbing record, climbing the 15-meter-high wall in 6.55 seconds. She’ll be looking to spend as short a time competing in Paris as possible as speed climbing is contested as a standalone sport for the first time (In Tokyo, bouldering, lead and speed were combined in one event).
Hunt set the U.S. record in Salt Lake City in May when she won the World Cup final against Aleksandra Kalucka of Poland. Kalucka’s countrywoman, Aleksandra Miroslaw, holds the current world record — which has fallen repeatedly in recent years — at 6.25 seconds.
Both Polish climbers will be among the top competition for Hunt in Paris, as will be Indonesian star Desak Made Rita Kusuma Dewi, who edged out Hunt for the world title in 2023 (Miroslaw took bronze, while Kalucka took fourth).
Victor Montalvo, breaking
We’re not here to legislate whether breakdancing — officially known as breaking — should be in the Olympics. Besides, the United States has the best competitor in the world, so just wait for another gold medal.
Montalvo, 30, is the defending world champion in breaking. Known as B-Boy Victor, he has carried on a back-and-forth rivalry with Canadian Phil Wizard in each of the last three world championships. Victor won in 2021 and 2023, while the Canadian won in 2022.
The sport, which developed from the 1980s dance craze, takes place in head-to-head “battles” over multiple rounds. Each dancer is graded in five categories: technique, vocabulary, originality, musicality and execution. The scoring is done by the judges in real time with winners advancing through a bracket.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE N.Y. Yankees 6, Philadelphia Phillies 5 Minnesota Twins 8, N.Y. Mets 3 Miami Marlins 6, Tampa Bay Rays 2 St. Louis Cardinals 10, Texas Rangers 1 Houston Astros 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 4 San Francisco Giants 1, Oakland Athletics 0 Colorado Rockies 2, Los Angeles Angels 1
AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore Orioles 10, Toronto Blue Jays 4 Kansas City Royals 10, Chicago White Sox 3 Boston Red Sox 3, Seattle Mariners 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago Cubs 13, Cincinnati Reds 4 Atlanta Braves 6 Milwaukee Brewers 2 Arizona Diamondbacks 5, Washington Nationals 4 San Diego Padres 8, L.A. Dodgers 1