It was just a few months ago that police in Chicago attempted to pull over a man named Dexter Reed for driving with illegally tinted windows. I talked about this incident on the show at the time, when the media was trying to turn Reed into the next George Floyd. As soon as the traffic stop began, Reed began acting suspiciously. He repeatedly refused officers commands to lower his window so they could see what was going on inside his car. Then he raised the tinted window to completely obstruct the officers view of the inside of the vehicle. And then, within seconds, Dexter Reed opened fire.

Police officers train on footage like this all the time. There are hundreds of videos like it all over the internet. And they all tell the same story, which is this: When the police pull someone over, and that person attempts to hide what hes doing, then the situation has just become extremely dangerous. All traffic stops involve some level of risk. But when someone rolls up a tinted window instead of complying, that risk gets exponentially higher. Thats especially true when the suspect has a criminal history. So police have no choice but to respond quickly and decisively, and potentially with force, because theyre in a life-threatening situation. Otherwise, they might get shot and killed before they can even see whats coming.

As I said at the time, there was an attempt to portray Dexter Reed as some kind of BLM martyr. But it fell apart the moment this footage was released. Everyone understood why the officers drew their weapons. Everyone understood that Reed had put the officers in fear for their lives, even before he started shooting. The entire media-driven narrative that Dexter Reed was an oppressed victim of police brutality fell apart. And no one spoke of it again.

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But theres always someone waiting in the wings to claim that mantle of oppression, especially in an election year. And this week, Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill is going for it even though his traffic stop, in many ways, has a lot of similarities to Dexter Reeds. Tyreek Hill, like Dexter Reed, was pulled over for a lawful reason. In Tyreek Hills case, he was speeding near the Hard Rock Stadium, where the Dolphins play. Thats all caught on camera. And like Dexter Reed, Tyreek Hill also had an existing criminal record at the time of his stop, although the officers probably werent aware of that. In Hills case, that record included a prior guilty plea for serious offenses including domestic assault and battery by strangulation.

And then, when he was pulled over, Tyreek Hill, like Dexter Reed, refused lawful orders to lower his tinted window. Instead, he started raising the window in clear defiance of the officers. Watch:Tyreek Hill ARREST body cam FOOTAGE released.. ???

Did the cops have a power trip, or were they just doing their job? ? pic.twitter.com/MUrSiffh2u

DramaAlert (@DramaAlert) September 9, 2024

Instead of complying, Tyreek Hill rolled up a tinted window while the police were trying to talk to him. They responded aggressively to his belligerence. Then, Tyreek Hill refused to sit on the curb as instructed, saying he had just had surgery, so he cant sit down. He can play in a professional football game a few hours later and score a touchdown, but he cant possibly sit down. Thats just asking too much. So the officer again used some force, this time to put him on the curb. The officers also detained one of Hills teammates, Calais Campbell, after he approached the scene in the middle of the road. Ultimately the authorities cited Hill for reckless driving but didnt arrest him. They also didnt charge him for obstructing an officer, which is a misdemeanor in Florida punishable by up to a year in prison.

Speaking to reporters, Hill claimed he had no idea why he was placed in handcuffs. No idea. Its crazy. No idea. I wasnt disrespectful because my mom didnt raise me that way. Didnt cuss. Did none of that. Im still trying to figure it out Dont be disrespectful.

Of course, the truth is that Hill could have avoided all of this by acting like an adult rather than a spoiled toddler. He knows that. Everyone watching the video knows that. But the media and the Left are pretending otherwise. Theyre completely ignoring the evidence and running with the same narrative weve seen a million times before, even if the facts dont remotely fit. Over on ESPN for example, theyre acting as if Tyreek Hill was just killed. Theyre mourning him as if he died, by comparing him to a bunch of other BLM martyrs. Watch:When Tyreek Hill says What if I wasnt Tyreek Hill.. hes absolutely right.

@ChrisCanty99 on the detainment of Tyreek Hill pic.twitter.com/JKCafYSwdm

UNSPORTSMANLIKE Radio (@UnSportsESPN) September 10, 2024

Just to be clear about this: Sandra Bland, Walter Scott, and Philando Castile are all dead. Thats not to relitigate all of those cases all of which the media lied about to one degree or another. Its just a fact. This guy is comparing several dead people to Tyreek Hill, who in fact is not dead. Tyreek Hill is very much alive. Hes still earning $30 million a year. Hes still a famous celebrity. What happened to Hill is that on Sunday, he endured a minor inconvenience that was entirely attributable to his own actions. This was such a minor inconvenience that he was able to play in a football game afterwards and mock the whole situation with a celebration after he scored a touchdown.

All of this fake hysteria is intended to obscure an obvious point, which is that Hill like so many other BLM heroes didnt comply with lawful orders that were given by police officers. He put them in a dangerous situation as a result. And he suffered the predictable consequences of that decision. When the outraged ESPN personality says hes frustrated that the country hasnt reckoned with race, what hes really saying is that black people should be able to do whatever they want when the police pull them over. They should be able to put the police in danger, apparently. Or maybe thats only the case if theyre driving expensive cars, like Tyreek Hill was. Maybe the law just doesnt apply to football players.

Thats the position of Tyreek Hills team, the Miami Dolphins. In a statement, the team said they urge the police department to take swift and strong action against the officers who engaged in such despicable behavior. The team didnt even mention Tyreek Hills decision to put people in danger by driving recklessly on the way to the stadium. They didnt mention that he disobeyed the officers commands. They pretend as if the officers had no reason whatsoever to treat Hill like a potential threat to their lives. This is the lose-lose situation that cops are in. Theyre being told that they have to ignore suspects who roll up their tinted windows, and just hope that it doesnt turn out to be another Dexter Reed situation. If they do anything to protect themselves, those cops are despicable.

Meanwhile, the brain trust of former athletes over on FS1 took the melodrama up ten more notches. Heres former NFL star LeSean McCoy in a conversation with former NFL player Emmanuel Acho. These are some of the most oppressed people in America. They were paid millions to play a game. Now theyre paid millions to talk about playing a game. But that doesnt make them any less oppressed. Watch:The most vulnerable, heartfelt and gut wrenching conversation Ive ever been a part of on live television.

We do not feel safe around cops and thats crazy Black people do not feel safe around cops. #TyreekHill #FinsUppic.twitter.com/jJ24MNiX5Y

Emmanuel Acho (@EmmanuelAcho) September 10, 2024

Oh is that what you tell your kids? You tell them if the cops are there, get to some light? Have you considered telling them to comply with lawful commands? Have you thought about that? Why dont you tell your kids to simply comply with lawful orders given by officers of the law? If they do that, then everything will be fine.

Were told that black men are afraid of the cops. Theyre terrified tha theyre going to be executed on the spot. Tyreek Hill was afraid, allegedly. Well if thats the case, why are you going out of your way to antagonize them? Why are you doing everything in your power to make your interactions with the police as stressful and contentious as possible? When I see videos like the one with Tyreek Hill or any of the footage of any BLM martyr I do not see black men who are afraid of the cops. I see black men who completely disregard the cops and act as though they are above the law and impervious to the basic rules and standards of conduct that govern the rest of us. If youre afraid for your life while dealing with the cops, why would you roll up a tinted window? How is that going to make you safer? How is that going to make the situation LESS volatile? You are making it more volatile. You are directly, actively, making it into a more volatile situation.

But this does not occur to these kind of commentators. We cant blame them for that. Theyre emotional. In fact, these guys were so emotional that when they came back from commercial break, they were still comforting each other:Moments after a sad, infuriating, tear evoking conversation on Tyreek Hill, I attempted to continue the show as if all was normal. It wasnt.

Im grateful for James Jones, who did not allow us to rush by our humanity.

On @TheFacilityFS1, were not doing TV, were doing life. pic.twitter.com/zU6d5yghG9

Emmanuel Acho (@EmmanuelAcho) September 10, 2024

What brave warriors. What heroes. My God. They had to overcome the trauma of talking about a football players briefly unpleasant interaction with the police. They somehow had to soldier through and find a way to keep talking about football. Its painful, you see. Its painful to think about the minor inconvenience that a millionaire football player experienced. A minor inconvenience of his own making. They are shaken up. They are barely able to hold it together.

For his part, the head coach of the Miami Dolphins, Mike McDaniel, was even more hysterical than the sports commentators. He appeared to be choking back tears as he said he couldnt imagine what its like to be as oppressed as Tyreek Hill is. Watch:#Dolphins HC Mike McDaniel got very emotional and choked up talking about Tyreek Hill getting detained on Sunday.

The thing that f***** me up honestly, to be quite frank, is knowing that I dont know exactly. I dont know what that feels like.

Full answer via @MiamiDolphins: pic.twitter.com/Pwrlr3XZ5t

Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) September 9, 2024

Fifty years ago a guy this weepy and emasculated would never be the head coach of a football team. It just wouldnt have been possible for a theater kid to get a job like this. But here we are. Mike McDaniel is triggered. It really messes him up, to not know what it feels like to be Tyreek Hill. Hell never be able to experience that level of oppression.

But the coach could find out pretty easily. He could start driving his sports car, as recklessly as possible, around slow-moving traffic. And when he gets pulled over, he can roll up his tinted windows and dare the cops to do something about it. Very quickly, Mike McDaniel will experience something similar to what Tyreek Hill experienced on Sunday. And if that happens, Mike McDaniel would deserve to be forcibly removed from his car and treated like a threat, just like Tyreek Hill was.

Predictably, no one in the corporate press wants to point this out. Instead, theyre affirming Tyreek Hills story of racial grievance at every opportunity. Heres CNN for example. Watch as they allow Tyreek Hill to claim without any pushback that, if he werent a football player, the police officers would have executed him on the side of the road. Watch:Tyreek was on CNN last night playing the victim and claiming if he wasnt Tyreek Hill then in the worst-case scenario he could have been mu*dered. What a joke. Hill is a horrible human being who beat up his pregnant girlfriend several years ago. pic.twitter.com/aowlTV2L5E

RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) September 10, 2024

Try to follow the logic here. According to Hill, the police knew he was a famous NFL player, with a very high profile. So they knew they had to be on their best behavior. Thats why they decided not to just shoot him outside the stadium. Thats what the police supposedly do to every other black person, but they dont do it to NFL players. At the same time, according to Tyreek Hill, these same police officers didnt have any problem risking their entire career just to rough him up on camera for no reason. So theyre cautious police officers, but theyre also extremely reckless at the same time.

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Thats the explanation that flies on CNN, apparently. But it doesnt make any sense. What makes more sense is that the police did exactly what they were trained to do, which is to treat everyone who behaves like Hill did regardless of how much money they have as a potential threat. Thats especially true when, like Dexter Reed, they have a criminal record and start rolling up their tinted window instead of complying.

The only way to explain the reaction from the corporate press, and the Miami Dolphins, is that these people really believe that a black man should be able to do or say literally anything he wants when confronted by police. Whatever happens will always be the cops fault, no matter what. The point is to absolve people of color of any blame.

But the effect is that theyre infantilized. Theyre treated like children incapable of controlling themselves. Theyre given no incentive to improve their own behavior. Instead, theyre given more incentive to act like Tyreek Hill with all the entitlement and hysteria that entails. We saw where that approach leads in 2020. It leads to police pulling out of black neighborhoods, and fewer people choosing to become police officers. And that, in turn, leads to a lot more black people dying. Narcissists like Tyreek Hill claim theyre afraid of that outcome. In reality, theyre doing everything they can to ensure it keeps happening.