Calais Campbell Shown Being Handcuffed in Tyreek Hill Bodycam Video

Newly revealed bodycam footage shows Miami Dolphins player Calais Campbell getting handcuffed after he pulled over during an incident with fellow player Tyreek Hill and the police.
The Miami-Dade Police Department is currently facing widespread anger over how Hill was dealt with on Sunday when they pulled him over for allegedly speeding on his way to the Hard Rock Stadium for the Dolphins’ season opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Two of Hill’s teammates—Campbell and Jonnu Smith—were also at the scene and Campbell ended up getting handcuffed as well.
The video from an officer’s body camera shows a cop yelling at Campbell, telling him: “I’m not gonna tell you to leave—I’m gonna give you one more time.”
The officer whose camera is filming walks up to the pair and tells the player: “Get in your car and leave.”
“I’m giving you an order to get out of here,” the initial officer who was speaking to Campbell says, before following him around the car to the sidewalk and handcuffing him. “I told you leave,” he says again.
Neither Campbell nor Hill were actually arrested. The South Florida Police Benevolent Association, the union which represents the police department, said Hill was “uncooperative” during the traffic stop and was “briefly detained for officer safety, after driving in a manner in which he was putting himself and others in great danger.”
Miami-Dade Police Director Stephanie V. Daniels said on Sunday that one of the officers involved in Hill’s detainment was “placed on administrative duties while the investigation is conducted.”
Newsweek has contacted both the union and the police department, via email, for any further comment.
Campbell appeared on sports journalist Stephen A. Smith’s show on Monday, describing what had happened to him.
He told how he stopped driving to see what was happening to his friend and got out of his car with his hands up.
“I told them ‘I’ll stand wherever you want me to stand, wherever you tell me how far you want me to back up I’ll back up, but I’m not leaving the scene,'” Campbell said.
Campbell told the officer: “You can tow my car, I don’t feel like I’m blocking traffic and he was like ‘that’s it, you’re under arrest,’ puts me in handcuffs.”
He went on to describe how Hill begged his friends not to leave him. He said: “(Hill is) in this extreme situation, that I don’t think he should have been in, it’s completely unnecessary, so like, you know, we here for you—we got your back. If they take us to jail, they take us to jail, we gonna do this together.”
Multiple people have spoken out against the interaction between the police and the athletes, with former football player and analyst Emmanuel Acho calling the bodycam footage of Hill being handcuffed “about as disgusting as you would expect.”
The Miami Dolphins said in a statement: “We are saddened by the overly aggressive and violent conduct directed towards Tyreek Hill, Calais Campbell and Jonnu Smith by police officers.
“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, yet it is also a reminder that not every situation like this ends in peace, as we are grateful this one did.”
Steadman Stahl, president of the South Florida Police Benevolent Association, said: “Before the Dolphins game yesterday, an incident occurred where Tyreek Hill was placed in handcuffs before being released.
“First, to be clear, at no time was he ever under arrest. He was briefly detained for officer safety, after driving in a manner in which he was putting himself and others in great danger.
“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. Mr. Hill, still uncooperative, refused to sit on the ground and was therefore redirected to the ground.
“Once the situation was sorted out within a few minutes, Mr. Hill was issued two traffic citations and was free to leave.”