Miami-Dade Police intended to arrest Dolphins players - Omar Kelly | Pro Football Talk | NFL on NBC

you said something earlier Omar that caught my ear and I want to Circle back to it because obviously we're going to talk about the Tyreek Hill thing how can we not talk about it but you said that two guys were going to be arrested I mean when you say arrested do you mean they were ready to take them downtown they're not going to be available to play in the game arrested in that way oh absolutely um that was the intent and the officer that got suspended if you watch all of the body cam footage and I did that yesterday you could see him talking to other co-workers complaining about the fact that they were not arrested um that that that's why it should have been 0939 um this is this is the intent was to arrest him and even in the initial arrest he says you're not oh actually in another incident uh clas Campbell is talking to him and he's like hey that you know we need that teammate he's not playing today he's he's he's going to jail this is before Kus was put in handcuffs and was going to be arrested it's interesting that the the officer that got reassigned he is in involved in every aggressive incident involving all three players and um you you clearly see why one of only one of six officers got reassigned what did the Dolphins do to keep the arrest and the absence of Kos Campbell and Tyreek Hill from the game from happening uh Drew Brooks Drew Brooks is is the Dolphin head of security um he came to the situation that's who you hear it's not drew rosenhouse that that that Tyre is saying hey Drew hey Drew it's Drew Brooks who was already at the stadium he came into the situation he diffused it more more than likely by calling a police captain um and it you know you what people don't understand is the Dolphins are the number one off-duty employer of police officers in all of of of of of South Florida um so clearly they've got a little bit of pull because there's a lot of money that goes into that direction um and uh you know everybody in that Stadium is there to see Tyreek Hill can you imagine the Uproar if if Tyreek wasn't available because he got arrested because he he got he got a traffic citation you had an excellent column yesterday and we agree 100% when it's time to break down this situation you know we live in a world now where our habit is go into your corner and point fingers and you're never wrong they're always wrong I'm right and there's no middle ground there's no gray area there's no way to a portion blame to everyone I'm going to give you the floor here to to share your views on this but it isn't as clear as both sides would want it to be uh it's it's it's very clear to me as an African-American male I I I'll tell you a story um I was going to and I wrote this in my column um not in depth but I was going to my college orientation um with my father my mother had made my father take me because she wanted us to have bonding time and it truly was bonding time and while we're driving up my father who was not speeding um gets stopped by the police and the police actually make my father get out the vehicle and the whole exchange I can't remember it because this is so many years ago but the whole exchange made me extremely uncomfortable about how this state trooper talked to my father how this state trooper my fa my father was my father and I watched my father humble himself and act in a in a manner and theorum that ensured that he was going to get back in that vehicle and be able to take me to my college orientation and on that drive there he gave me the talk and as an African-American we all know what the talk is that when you're involved in any incident with the police you need to be on your utmost no matter who's right who's wrong what happened in the situation you need to show them the utmost respect because they have your lives in their hands and they have the authority to kill you um my biggest issue while I think the officer was uberly aggressive and was in the wrong in so many instances which is explains why he was absolutely um the one that was punished and the only one that was punished because he was involved in every single incident that that required being overly aggressive with every single player um the same one officer while I think that he was absolutely in the wrong wrong if Ty if my 22-year-old son did what Tyreek did and talked to the officer the way Tyreek did and conducted himself the way Tyreek did I don't know if my Not only would my son have been arrested I don't know if he would have been alive because you cannot do that and you cannot conduct yourself in that manner and when I watch the body Camp footage and you hear all the little subtle comments that Tariq was making and all the little things that he said and why he wouldn't roll down the window this is not how an africanamerican male should can conduct himself in a traffic stop if he wants to make it home or make it to work alive and I understand that officers play a role in this but you cannot follow tyre's lead this is not a do what Tyreek does situation and that's my disappointment and not only that but also for Tariq to demand that the officer be fired and gone we're talking about a player who has probably on his fourth chance in the NFL it's not like Tariq has a squeaky clean resume in terms of incidents occurrences and he has been given grace Time After Time After Time After Time again and I'm not saying that we should not be looking into this officer's background his handling of of others in in in the community um I'm not saying that he should not be reprimanded but for to ask for a man who'd been uh employed by the police department for 27 years to be immediately dismissed because of this one incident I think that that crosses a line and we're completely on the same page on all this I didn't do a good job setting up the question I'm talking about the lack of clarity as to where fault can be apportioned because Tyreek Hill not Cooperative initially but then Omar my take on this has been it stopped being about securing his cooperation and it became about punishing him for daring to not cooperate even when it was clear that he was ready to comply okay I understand that you're serious they still drag him out of the car throw him down cuff him and mistreat him not to secure his cooperation but to send a message you don't mess with us and if you do this is what you get that's where the cops were clearly in the wrong absolutely no question about it and and but that's happened so many times to so many people in America and cops believe that they're the all power and and and full full autonomy to do and treat people however they feel if you don't follow their instructions and the the main thing my my ex-wife was a police officer and the main thing that I always knew from her was that your job as a police officer is to deescalate any situation or s or or or scene and that officer officer Torres did nothing to deescalate in fact all he did was pour G gasoline on on every single scene and and that's why you could clearly see uh this is going to be a great learning opportunity for not just all officers but hopefully for officer Torres because that's not good policing and and I I'm pretty sure that the the police department has come out and acknowledge that hey this is not a good policing and hopefully this is a moment that we all learn from we played some of Tyreek Hill's press conference from yesterday and I was struggling to thread the needle between and there was a shift in his demeanor he goes from we need to find a way to work together we need to find the positives in this to oh that guy's got to be fired and I don't I mean maybe there is a way to work positively and use it as a way to help people understand from both sides how these interactions should go and still fire the officer I just think it's a tough cell to go from conciliation to oh no he's got to go and maybe he does have to go but that's for the police structure to to figure out with hearings do process police Union Etc maybe that's the end result I just think it's hard for Tyreek to sell this idea let's move forward hand in hand only after you fire that guy um he's he's mentioned that they wanted to apologize he's the officers want to apologize he's he's denied that um and there's all kinds of talk about what that Forum was and and what not I think a great opportunity here for and I agree with Tyreek that that we should move forward and learn from this but a great opportunity is for officers to learn their behavior in conduct with individuals who probably are less than Cooperative it can escalate to that um and also this new law that Florida passed where you have to be 25 yards away from any scene of of an incident arrest which I don't know how in the world that passes because what about the bystanders who are there just filming it so now you're you're preventing us from filming it like how does that make any sense when we're just trying to police officers um I think that is it also important that body camera footage is on every officer and if they're involved in any sort of situation or scene that they make sure their body cameras are on and if their body cameras are turned off then that leads to an immediate suspension um but also from Tyreek hey this is a great opportunity to do some videos on how to conduct yourself when you're stopped by an officer how to because T talked about how my parents didn't raise me that way and and initially before the body camera footage I found Tyreek quite disrespectful on so many fronts um to those officers and that is not the talk so maybe Tariq needs to go over the talk that all African-Americans have to have with their children about how to conduct themselves when they are in in in the presence of police when we look at the incident and we look at the impact it had and the fact that Kus Campbell and jnu Smith came to his Aid we've heard some comments from people like Tyreek Hill about how it brings the team together and you know we always see coaches and athletes looking for anything they can contrive to try you know it's us against the world or whatever is this like an organic authentic way that you don't want it you didn't plan for it but it happened and it brings the team together and maybe makes them better than they would have been do you see that possibly Happening Here absolutely um that's one of the main emphasis points of emphasis that they've had all all offseason it's creating a closer Bond so that when we're in those moments we can be hold each other accountable we can talk to each other that's why people like clus Campbell were added because they needed an infus of leadership especially after losing Christian Wilkins and that's the one thing they've talked the before to kick off training camp to had a power a party at the house for the entire team um and it's about creating those bonding moments so that you can you can be there to support one another you can be there to help each other achieve your goals they've rallied behind every single one of these players who got their extensions and Steve Ross did hand out a lot of extensions um and it's it's really a moment to Galvanize their fan that their their their teammates and support one another and nothing was bigger and better than having three teammates because Odell Beckham was there as well um on the scene to support their brother who's who's face down knee and back being arrested you know possibly got kicked um to support their teammate while while he's in a traumatizing moment hi it's Mike Florio thanks for watching PFT on YouTube hit subscribe for the latest news and Analysis from pro football talk