Video shows police pulling Tyreek Hill out of the car and pushing him to the ground

Tyreek Hill refused to keep the window of his sports car closed when a police officer asked him to do so after the Miami Dolphins star receiver was stopped for a traffic violation before the NFL's season-opening game at Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday.

The Miami-Dade Police Department released body cam footage of the incident, which quickly escalated and resulted in Hill being forcibly dragged from his black McLaren 720S, shoved face-first to the ground and handcuffed by police officers.

Hill was stopped by a police officer on a motorcycle for speeding on his way to the stadium. Footage shows the officer knocking on the driver's side window of the car and telling Hill to roll it down. Hill complied and handed the officer his license while repeatedly telling the officer not to knock on his window. Hill rolled the window back up and the officer responded by raising his voice and repeatedly telling Hill to roll the window down.

By now other police officers had arrived and Hill was pulled from his car, pushed to the ground, handcuffed and then led to the sidewalk. “When we tell you to do something, you do it. Do you understand?” said one police officer. “Do you understand? Not what you want, but what we tell you. You're a little confused.”

After the game against the Jacksonville Jaguars – in which Hill scored an 80-yard touchdown and celebrated by putting his hands behind his back while teammate Jaylen Waddle pretended to handcuff him – Hill said he wanted to keep his window closed because he was “embarrassed” and didn't want people in passing cars to recognize him.

“If I roll down my window, people walking or driving by are going to notice it's me,” Hill told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Monday night. “And they're going to start taking pictures. I didn't want to make a scene at all. I just wanted to get the ticket and then keep driving.”

One of the officers apparently had no idea that Hill was an NFL player.

An officer checking Hill's driver's license asked another officer about Hill's behavior and said, “Why is he acting like that? You know who that is, right?”

“No,” replied an officer who was not in the picture.

“This is one of the Dolphins’ star players,” said the official who held Hill’s license.

“Oh yeah? Damn,” replied the officer off-screen.

The Dolphins issued a statement following the release of the bodycam video, saying they were “saddened by the overly aggressive and violent behavior toward Tyreek Hill, Calais Campbell and Jonnu Smith,” adding that “some officers are confusing their responsibility and obligation to serve with misguided power.”

A little over a minute passed after Hill was stopped and dragged out of the car.

“It just went from zero to 60, man, from the moment those guys pulled up behind me and knocked on my window, it immediately went from zero to 60,” Hill said Monday in an interview with “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.”

“I opened the door and was about to get out, you know what I mean, but I felt like they wanted me to hurry up.”

Hill was on the phone with Dolphins director of security Drew Brooks when he was pulled from the car, repeatedly saying, “I'm under arrest” as officers handcuffed him. After they took him to the sidewalk, Hill told officers that he had recently undergone knee surgery. The officer who pulled him from the car put his arms around Hill's shoulders and forced him to the ground again.

The officer reacted sarcastically when Hill mentioned his knee surgery.

“Oh, really? What a coincidence,” he said to Hill. “Were you having ear surgery when we told you to roll down the window?”

Hill responded by shouting, “Brother, relax!”

Campbell, Hill's teammate and 17-year NFL veteran, was also handcuffed after he stopped his car and asked officers what was wrong with Hill. Campbell, who can be seen in bodycam footage slowly approaching the scene with his hands raised, told Fox Sports that one officer in particular was “overbearing and hostile.”

“He's the one who stirred things up, extremely over the top,” Campbell said. “I thought to myself, 'The other cops are all pretty cool, laid back. He's the one you need to watch out for.' It was definitely one guy.”

Other Dolphins teammates also stopped their cars and were asked by officers to move. Smith was issued a summons, although he stayed away from the scene of the accident.

“I'm just glad my teammates were there to support me in that situation because I felt alone,” Hill said. “When they showed up, I realized we have a good team this year, buddy, that they're putting their lives on the line for. It was incredible to see that.”

In a statement from Miami-Dade police, Stephanie V. Daniels, the police department's director, said an investigation into the incident was ongoing and one of the officers involved had been placed on administrative duty.

In a separate statement regarding the body cam video, Daniels said, “While standard protocol is not to release body cam footage until the internal review is complete, the available body cam footage – totaling 105 minutes and 33 seconds – will be released the day after the incident to underscore the department's commitment to keeping the public informed.”

Hill was charged with reckless driving and failure to wear a seatbelt. Campbell was not charged.