Three-time All-Pro Gerald McCoy and two-time Super Bowl champ Kyle Van Noy react to the release of bodycam footage from Sunday’s incident involving the Miami Dolphins wide receiver. Hear the full conversation on “McCoy & Van Noy” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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This one’s tough to handle as a player, the Tyreek Hill situation, he was pulled over for speeding before the game saw videos showed him being detained on the ground put into handcuffs by multiple officers reaction.
How do you feel g like what would be going on your mind?
Like all that?
So as a professional, you have to compartmentalize that and go play ball, you might be thinking about it but as the game goes and you get in the flow of the game, you just playing ball and then afterwards you deal with it.
When I watched the body cam footage, the officer started aggressive, he came up already aggressive over a seat belt.
The only thing that I say and this is not a Tyrique was wrong or he did anything wrong.
The only thing that could have been done differently is rolling his window up, but that’s not a crime.
But that officer coming over yelling at him telling him to stop whining, threatening to pull him out of his car and then saying, you know what, forget it, lifting his door up and snatching him out the car, putting his knee in his back.
He gets put in handcuffs and all the harsh reality is us with this skin color, we have to operate and move a certain way in our minds with how I raise my kids.
We always have to be on high alert that we’re not allowed to be and operate and move a certain way.
And it’s unfortunate that we even have to think like that when I get pulled over.
I know there’s a protocol.
I can’t just get pulled over and say, oh, hey, officer, here’s my stuff.
I have to worry about.
Ok. Where are my hands at?
Where are my hands at?
Can he see my hands ask before I can reach for anything?
Can I have your license registration?
Hey, officer, I’m going to reach for my stuff right here.
I ain’t got nothing in the car.
I’m just reach.
Is it ok?
Being a black man in America, that’s the harsh reality of what we have to deal with.
And it was a whole bunch of overly aggressive officers for no reason.