TBF, he still got some preferential treatment, which he said himself. What if he wasn't Tyreek Hill?
The preferential treatment was that the body cams were just muted during the cover up and not all accidentally turned off for the entire encounter, not getting beaten up, tased or shot.
I mean as far as preferential treatment goes I’d take that deal, but the fact remains he was pulled out of his car, roughed up, taken to the floor and handcuffed for 18minutes for no reason when the cop should have been writing him a (dubious) ticket.
There are at least 2 cops here who should not be cops and the rest need to be retrained to ensure they step in if they see mistreatment like this again, for face being fired.
The window being all the way down was not a safety issue, but i have zero faith that a court would determine the cops to have used excessive force. I'll see you all at the next post where nothing changes!
I remember a video of a white woman closing the window into a policeman's fingers, driving off (over his foot?) getting forced off the road again, screaming insults at the police, hitting them with the car door, before they resort to, iirc, a taser or dragging her out (might be more than one such video)
So in my mind, that's kind of the 'gold standard' for behaviour which only leads to slow incremental steps in the use of force.
I'll be honest, I've seen plenty of these types of stops on YouTube, I know guilty pleasure, and once he rolled up that window, Black, White, Chinese, Indian, you were going to get pulled out and arrested for contempt of cop.
Don't get me wrong, police do racially profile and harass Black people disproportionally and are racists assholes but the traffic stop? I don't think race played as much of a factor than just good ol' fragile cop ego where a white guy showing the same behavior would have been mostly the same thing happen, just that the white guy would have been in no danger of being killed but gun or suffocation.
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