Tyreek Hill and Scottie Scheffler

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ugh...no you don't need to roll your entire window down. All you are required to do is open it to where you can pass your DL and registration. Hill opened his window several times then rolled it back up. The problem is that the "requirement" to roll down the window is vague as shit. It just says you're required to roll it down. It doesn't say how much or that the driver is required to keep it down and there is no case law on that particular issue. SO the default while a driver is required to roll it down and present ID and registration etc... there is NOTHING in florida statutes that require him to keep it down unless ordered. He was and the whole thing went to shit. The cop, instead of realizing he wasn't in any danger (because he wasn't) chose to escelate the issue by ordering him out of the car. HOWEVER someone must be given time to comply to the lawful order given. Yet, it doesn't appear as though that happened or at least not as fast as the cop wanted which apparently was immediately.

Now, was Hill a dick to the cop...yeah...without a doubt but there was zero reason for him to require the window to stay down BUT it wasn't an unlawful order. Here is what the cop should've done. Cited him for careless and no seatbelt (which he ultimately was) AND cited him for the class 2 misdemeanor. The cop did order him to keep it down and while Hill absolutely shouldn't have said "don't tell me what to do" but until then he literally didn't do anything wrong according to the statutes.

Where this goes to shit is the cop not really giving him time to comply with the get out of the car order and losing his shit when it wasn't immediate.

Again, Hill was a dick but did tell the cop to do what he needed to do to end the situation but the cop lost his shit when a black dude driving a McLaren told him to fuck off instead of "RESPECTING HIS AUTHORATAH" even when he wasn't given the reasonable time to do so.

anyway, the quotes below are from an AP article on the situation. I don't have the link bc I had to walk away from my laptop and finish this on my phone.

Hill slowed and put down his window. An officer pulled alongside and told him to pull over. He did, but put his window back up.

The officer got off his motorcycle, walked to the car and tapped on Hill’s window.

Hill lowered his window and told the officer, “Don’t knock on my window like that” while handing the officer his driver’s license.

The officer asked Hill why he didn’t have his seat belt on. Hill again told the officer not to knock on his window.

“Why you have it up? I have to knock to let you know I am here,” the officer replied.

“Give me my ticket, bro, so I can go. I am gonna be late. Do what you gotta do,” Hill told the officer.
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After demanding his ticket, Hill again put up his window.

“Keep it down,” Batista snapped, rapping on the window with his knuckle. Hill can be seen through the tinted window buckling his seat belt.

Hill cracked his window and said, “Don’t tell me what to do” before he again put the window up.

“Keep the window down or I am going to get you out of the car. As a matter of fact, get out of the car,” the officer said.

Torres, who is standing to the side, then orders Hill to get out or “I am going to break that ... window,” using an obscenity.

Torres then pulled the door open, grabbed Hill by the arm and the back of the neck and forced him face-first onto the ground as the player said, “I am getting out.” Torres, the first officer and a third then pinned Hill, pulled his arms behind him and handcuffed him. One officer put his knee into Hill’s back. It had been exactly one minute since the officer first tapped on Hill’s window.

Hill yelled into his cellphone, “I am being arrested, Drew.” He had placed a call to team security director Drew Brooks while still in the car.

Torres told Hill that he is going to obey their orders, again cursing at him. Hill told them, “take me to jail, do what you gotta do.”

“We will,” Torres replied.
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The officers pulled Hill to his feet and took him to the sidewalk, where they ordered him to sit on the curb. He told officers he’d had knee surgery and he couldn’t. Torres jumped behind him, put his arm around Hill’s upper chest or neck and forced him to sit.

Hill’s teammates Jonnu Smith and Calais Campbell stopped their vehicles after seeing Hill in handcuffs and tried to speak to officers, but they are told to leave. Officers briefly put Campbell in handcuffs after accusing him of not obeying their order to move back.

Police supervisors arrived and discussed the situation with the officers. The department deleted most of the audio from those conversations.

About 25 minutes after Hill was pulled over, he received his citations and was released.
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“You wanna tell me why you’re not wearing your seatbelt?”

Just shut up with that type of question. If you want to write a seatbelt ticket then do it.
 
I thought this was a good breakdown by an attorney who does this sort of law/analysis, long but good. It shows the video back to the point where Hill was observed speeding.

 
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