Tyreek Hill's Agent Drew Rosenhaus Sounds Off on Miami Police After Viral Arrest Video

Drew rosenhouse is with us now and it's been a long time since I've talked to Drew and I saw him sweaty in the middle of the field all of that looked uncomfortable and also a position that Drew rosenhouse has been in a few times in front of cameras so he joins us uh now and Drew thank you for joining us what can you tell us you know now that you didn't know when you were talking to the media right before the game well I I am uh admire what uh Tyreek is is doing right now guys he's um in the process of trying to organize a forum discussion with uh the chief of police of Miami day any anyone else here in South Florida that wants to get involved Tyreek has said to me uh as traumatic as an event as this was he wants to take this negative and try to turn it into a positive we talked about all the things that um athletes have tried to do over the years like Colin Kaepernick and and others and to see this type of uh treatment continue to happen he's going to take a different tact here and uh and try to meet with some leaders to bring people together to to follow the you know the rules the the way that Tyreek said the rule book what what what police are trained to to do that wasn't the case on Sunday so Tyreek is adaman about being an agent for Change and uh in talking to the Dolphins the NFL Troy Vincent the senior vice president of the NFL the players Coalition the NFL PA everyone is uh behind Tyreek and uh there's just a lot of momentum right now to turn this into an example of of how we can take a negative and turn into a positive you were careful in the moment not to make any allegations and what you're saying is that going forward none will be made because everyone here is trying to now deescalate this and turn it into a teaching moment versus saying any one of the things that could be said here about a black man being uh handled poorly by police I I think uh number one Dan there's no question that um Tyreek wants to improve relationships between the police and society and and to see this type of thing happening in particular with with black people um and non-black or Latino or or white police officers this is not unfortunately something that is new but he does want to be an agent of change now that's not taking things off off the table by looking to discipline the police officers that were involved here in in violating uh Tyreek and the way that they treated him and Kus Campbell and John new and there there may be litigation in a whole other slew of things but for now Tyreek is uh focused on trying to rather than necessarily protest as much as try to work together with the police to um to get this on the right track moving forward I I was amazed after everything that those officers did to Tyreek he went out of his way to try and shake their hand before he left the scene to go into the stadium he literally said to them I want to be a police officer one day I respect law enforcement this isn't how it should be done let's be better I was with him when he said those things he showed a lot of poise and I think he really wants to carry that message moving forward but it was the reason I was sweating like that is I was running frantically around the stadium to get to him my client jnu Smith called me and said drew the cops are beating on Tyreek they're choking him they're kicking him they've got him on the ground in handcuffs I mean you want to talk about anxiety pain frustration it was a nightmare and then all this videoos out there there's zero narrative about what happened to Tyreek so I was hustling to talk to as many people as I could before the game to get the message out that Tyreek did nothing wrong Kass Campbell did nothing wrong and the police involved here were way out of hand Drew does Tyreek have any regrets about the situation uh I I I have not I can't speak for Tyreek but from my perspective I don't think he should I I don't believe when you look at the video and I talked to Tyreek about this that his conduct in anyway merited any type of physical Force to put him in handcuffs to yank him out of the car I mean how about a little respect give him a ticket if you thought it was a moving violation give him the ticket but handcuffs and you know the the way that they kicked him and hit him and the choke call that was mindboggling for him to have regrets uh he's absolutely the last person that should be regretful the police officers involved should regret this um and and hopefully people are learning from this around the world on how to not be uh in law enforcement that that's a lesson on what not to do and how to treat people the wrong way Drew how did we get to the handshakes What stopped all of this from happening what's happening in the middle here that we don't have access to that gets to the handshakes well to tyre's credit uh I was with Tyreek Drew Brook the Dolphins head of security uh Brandon Shore the Dolphins vice president Tyreek uh grandparents Herman and Virginia Hill were there we um you know Tyreek just settled down and showed a lot of poise and maturity it was his call to reach out to those officers to tell them to be better moving forward Drew this could have been so much worse uh Kyrie could have been injured and and seriously injured and and unbelievably he not only played but uh was the star of the game with that 80- yard touchdown catch uh to make clear might litigation still happen is that still on the table absolutely absolutely tarre has uh his attorneys involved that are looking at this to to see if that is appropriate um a lot of people have reached out to him indicating that uh this is um this is something that potentially should Merit litigation um that is something that will be determined in the future but Greg I want to go back to your point I literally just hung up the phone with Tyreek a few minutes ago and he made the point that you did it could have been so much worse he said he could have been shot he could have been killed thank God he didn't resist thank God he didn't fight back thank God he handled it with the maturity asking for professionals to help him and he kept his Poise but what if he didn't this could have been absolutely disastrous when you see the way these officers were treating him Drew what absolutely feared for his life what information do you have today that you didn't have when you were talking to the Press what have you since learned uh when did you get access to the body cam video confirmed or refuted any things that you thought before you saw it well I mean when I got there Tyreek was still in handcuffs but it was after all this violent stuff otherwise I I I probably would have been arrested as well because I would have jumped into the fry here this is just mindboggling just like Kus and jnu did I got there at the tail end where he was still in handcuffs and went over and the police were trying to push me away what do I know now looking at all the body cam footage it's absolutely sickening and Tyreek himself didn't realize even going through it how terrible it was he told me he just couldn't believe this is the kind of thing that you see happening to somebody else and what if he wasn't Tyreek what if his U director of security Drew Brooks wasn't there what if I wasn't uh there at the scene who knows what this could turned into what if his grandparents weren't there I can't believe that they were grandpar grandparents fix they fix everything grandparents are are they put it on the poll JuJu at lebatard show do grandparents fix everything what are you walking into Drew you've got all the police officers there your receiver your client is still in handcuffs this is before the handshakes and his grandparents are there my my brother Jason and my partner said to me Drew don't get arrested he knew I was very emotional and I was extremely upset but fortunately by the time I got there the officers had calmed down to the extent that Tyreek was with Drew Brooks he was they just had let him out of handcuffs Tyreek was very poised but uh to say that uh everybody who cared about Tyreek uh was enraged and livid including his grandparents his pregnant wife who was at this Stadium uh this was just absolutely I've been an NFL agent guys for 37 years I've never been involved with something like this is mindboggling a player is just trying to get to his home stadium to do his job that's all he was trying to do and that's basically what he said to the police when they ripped him out of the car he was just trying to explain what was doing and why he allegedly was in a hurry he had a job to do and uh he had a game to play mindboggling we we you know Tyreek and I were were still talking this morning about how shocking this is even 48 hours later uh you say no regrets was he driving too fast or recklessly not that I'm aware of he says he wasn't it's kind of hard to do that in traffic um you know you look at where he got pulled over but I wasn't an eyewitness to that quite frankly we were we were just uh you know relieved that after all of this he got a speeding you know basically a a speeding ticket a reckless driving ticket and a ticket for driving without a a seat Bel we were concerned the police would try to uh keep them away or take him into custody we were quite honestly very very relieved and we'll get that stuff taken care of but I obviously if he was that certainly did not Merit that type of outrageous conduct and I know that almost everybody agrees with this sentiment Tyreek did nothing that deserved the beating that he got and the physical treatment much less Kus and Janu on top of that Drew Drew in the aftermath of this when when everything was settling down at the scene and you were perhaps in the company of uh the police officers did you hear anything from them that sounded like apology or regret or we overreacted or we didn't know who it was anything like that Greg I can tell you that the dolphin security which is made up of either retired police officers or off-duty police officers um were just uh appalled by the way Tyreek was treated I was at Monday Night Football last night in San Francisco and I can't tell you how many of the police officers there came up to me and said hey this isn't how we do things this is not something we're proud of this is not a uh this is not the norm these guys were way out of line um but none of the police officers involved there showed any remorse or were apologetic uh but our goal is to make sure that they are in the near future that they are disciplined for the people the police officers there that kicked him that put him in a choke hold that ripped him out of the car that threw him on the ground that put their knee on them we want those officers to be disciplined and to make sure that they never do that again to anybody else who doesn't actually deserve that type of uh treatment what is the discipline you want for for me personally I think that police officers that uh that did that to Tyreek shouldn't be in that position they should be let go look at the guy that just kicked him right there that guy should be fired that's out of control the guy that that jumped in put him in a choke hold that there's no place for a police officer to have a badge that operates like that when Tyreek wasn't being uh aggressive or violent or fighting back in any capacity what you know that was horrendous how they treated him they didn't treat him like a human being does Tyreek there's no place for police officers to be on the force uh Drew I agree with that does Tyreek agree with you though I I of course he wants them fired he thinks they should be fired well I'll let Tyreek speak to that that's that's my opinion he and I have not had that specific discussion but certainly I would recommend to Tyreek and the legal team that that's something that we pursue um you know I think he deserves an apology from each and every one of those police officers involved and the ones that abuse their Authority and power should not be on the force in my opinion moving forward what do you say to anyone who says that tyreq Hill has to initially be more submissive in that spot and just simply follow orders regarding in his uh window based upon my discussions with Tyreek and the video and everything that I've seen that's uh very clear that Tyreek was submissive that he was cooperating uh and to the extent that the police officers didn't feel that he was his conduct by no means warranted the extreme reaction that they uh that they that they did I mean there's look at I mean his conversation there what do I have to do give me a ticket I mean he's a human being he has the right to have these discussions and uh you know to me again Tyreek is human you don't have to be perfect when you're dealing with the police to not get arrested I mean at the end of the day they yank him out of the car it's it's absolutely he's got rights he's trying to get a hold of the team security director myself and look at this they yank him out of the car throw him down I mean for what have a little bit of patience what does it take a minute or two to communicate he's obviously not a threat there's no instance you got to put your knee on his hand right there tyre's been dealing with a wrist injury a sore knee this guy right there that's that's just unnecessary he's not fighting back and then they harassed him they called him a crybaby look at Tyreek he just said I had surgery on my knee he had a procedure he had some injections this offseason uh PRP and this is how they treat a guy I mean what if it wasn't a world class athlete and here's my client he's on the phone with me they're beating on Tyreek I'm on the other line there and they're about to arrest him I mean that's a that's absolutely have a little bit of awareness these are Dolphin players that are trying to do their job were at the stadium your police officer John new trying to calm the situation down and so is Kus you don't have the the Poise as a police officer to recognize that Tyreek Hill and Kus Campbell how about a little bit of communication what happened we can't just talk things out you got to suddenly throw a black athlete or a black person in a nice car you got to throw him into the ground and beat on them that's absurd Drew you know South Florida you know Miami they want the answer to one question is the U Back the answer is yes absolutely they are loaded this is a talented football team and they're going to have a great season all right Drew good see good seeing you under weird circumstances thank you sir appreciate the time I know you're very busy right now take care guys thank you drew