Danny Torres, 27-year veteran who forcibly arrested Hill in Florida on Sunday, suspended for total of about 50 days

The police officer who detained NFL player Tyreek Hill in Florida had racked up six suspensions and multiple reprimands before his encounter with the Miami Dolphins wide receiver, records from his agency show.

According to employee records reviewed by NBC, Danny Torres, the Miami-Dade police department officer who forcibly arrested and handcuffed Hill last Sunday, has a tainted disciplinary record that includes being suspended for as many as 50 days between 2014 and 2019.

Two of the suspensions were for five days each in February 2014 and February 2016 – as well as a pair of five-day suspensions in September 2016. Torres also had a 20-day suspension in October 2018 and a 10-day suspension in June 2019.

Additionally, NBC reports that the 27-year veteran received four written reprimands between March 1999 and September 2020. Torres, who has been placed on administrative duties since his arrest of Hill, was also involved in multiple other complaints at the police department, according to the outlet.

  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
    50·
    2 months ago

    In Tyreek’s post-arrest press conference he asked rhetorically “what would have happened if I hadn’t been famous?”

    Well, now we see. Wrist-slaps with no actual long-term impact.

  • valek879@sh.itjust.works
    26·
    2 months ago

    If you have a CDL there is a federal database that tracks drug and alcohol offenses that had become mandatory to enroll in for most jobs in the industry.

    Why don’t we have something like that for cops?

    Maybe it tracks reports of discipline and can be used by the public to file complaints with police departments.

    I know something like this is talked about a lot but we already built something similar for truckers. There are 1.36 million CDL holders and 708,000 cops. Seems like it’d be pretty easy to copy their homework.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
    22·
    2 months ago

    How many times can you be disciplined without getting fired? Also what warrants a 20 day suspension, I betting someone died.

  • RubberDuck@lemmy.world
    191·
    2 months ago

    The whole incident was just bizarre. So many cops, so much violence and yelling, and so much lying by the cops. And the violent cop… it was clearly not his first rodeo.

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
    18·
    2 months ago

    AND YET STILL A COP

    Fucking hell disciplinary record stretching over 25 of his 27 years but still a fucking cop.

  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
    181·
    2 months ago

    I always thought it was normal to not roll your window down all the way when stopped by a cop.

    The order to roll it down, on a speeding citation especially, strikes me as an attempt to search the vehicle.

    There was no reasonable anything to think he was in danger.

    It was a speeding ticket.

    And the guy was driving a car worth more than the cops retirement fund.

    Except, driver black.

    ACAB

    • Paddzr@lemmy.world
      13·
      2 months ago

      Also no seatbelt? The guy act as a cunt. Is it illegal to act like a cunt? No.

      I’m not losing tears over it. I’m even glad they knocked him down a notch. He escalated it. But cops = bad so it’s okay.

  • edric@lemm.ee
    16·
    2 months ago

    Suspensions become worthless when they are treated like vacations. Guy should’ve been fired after the first offense.

  • El_guapazo@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months ago

    He’s still a cup because of the laws called police officers bill of rights. They ensure that rogue cops have no accountability. Repeal those laws and institute a registry, and it’ll clean up these bad apples