NFL Reportedly Failed to Obtain Evidence From Prosecutors in Tyreek Hill Case
By Daniel Marcillo
In what has already been a crazy situation, more news broke on the case of Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill.
According to USA Today's A.J. Perez, the NFL was unable to obtain any evidence from prosecutors in the investigation of Hill's child abuse allegations.
According to @byajperez, the NFL was unable to get any evidence from prosecutors regarding the child-abuse allegations involving Tyreek Hill's son https://t.co/UqERLCD1Uo
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) July 22, 2019
The prosecutor's office used exemptions to open-records law to stop the NFL from gaining information from the case. The league was unable to receive enough evidence to hand out a suspension to Hill.
What is very puzzling about the lack of suspension is that despite all the available evidence, which a majority of people heard and saw, it was not enough to even issue a small suspension.
Soooo...Tyreek Hill is on audio threatening his girlfriend, questions about child abuse, no suspension. Two years after incident in which he was neither arrested nor charged, Seattle's Jarran Reed suspended. As ever, the #NFL inconsistency is embarrassinghttps://t.co/EVslkZdBJm
— shalise manza young (@shalisemyoung) July 22, 2019
In the past the NFL has handed out punishments without having obtained a large amount of evidence. Today, Seattle Seahawks Jarran Reed was handed a six-game suspension for a violation of the NFL's personal conduct policy.
The NFL's personal conduct policy spans eight pages on a PDF, where it outlines ways players can violate the policy. Details of Reed's suspension have not been released, but you can guarantee the situations of Reed and Hill will be examined and criticized widely.