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“NFL PROBLEMS-SOCIETY PROBLEMS”
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It’s no different, regardless of where you are, who you are.
The confrontations, the mistrust, the danger is everywhere.
And there seems no solution to any of this.

This I am referring to, is the latest incident involving black and white.
Tyreek Hill, the Miami Dolphins star wide receiver, pulled over in a traffic stop.

Now the video of the traffic stop outside Hard Rock Stadium before the Sunday-Dolphins-Jaguars opening day game.

Video paints pictures from both sides of the street.  The police acting like bullies in how they hauled Hill out of his car, put him to the pavement, handcuffed him, then charged him with not following police instructions and speeding.

The video also shows Hill, defiant, refusing to roll his tinted windows down, rolling them down, rolling them up, ignoring requests to step out of the car.

Both sides look bad.

White-vs-black.  Rich man in an expensive sports car.  The history of so many violent outcomes when police intersect with someone doing something wrong.

So many questions to ask.

Tyreek Hill, who has a troubled off the field history, why are you doing 76 in a 45-zone?  Why not wearing a seatbelt?  Why you calling Dolphins security yelling they’re arresting me even before you are taken out of the car?  Why did you not follow instructions and get out of the car?

For the Miami police, why the show of force towards an NFL athlete?  Why the in your face stance when teammates arrived, willing to defuse the situation? Why the arrest threats to other Dolphins players who wanted to help?

It’s a bad optic in so many ways, but it’s understandable.  Rich black man outnumbered by police he and his society do not trust.

Police, of a wide variety of heritage makeup, white, hispanic, black, knowing how many of their own have been shot and killed while just doing their job in the line of duty, being aggressive.

Tyreek Hill is a powder keg person.  You know, the one who choked his pregnant girlfriend in college.  The one who has a trail of Baby Mama lawsuits all over the country.  He may be a talent, but he is a bad citizen too.

The police, living and working in a powder keg job, reacting way over the top, especially since there were no weapons involved..

It’s gotten worse because Hill promptly pulled the ‘race card’ out in his post game press conference and then on network interviews.  His agent is now demanding the 3-officers be fired.

The cops and its union becoming defiant because of the situation they were put in by someone they felt was acting above the law because he plays for the Dolphins.

Both need to apologize-file it, but not forget it, and not do it again.

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