MIAMI GARDENS — As Tua Tagovailoa was preparing for the Miami Dolphins' game on Sunday at Hard Rock Stadium, he saw his teammate, Tyreek Hill, on a television, being detained by police.

"So then I go up and ask him what happened," Tagovailoa said Tuesday. "And I mean, he didn't seem fazed in the locker room."

Hill was telling his version of events to some teammates. By the next day, body cam footage from Miami-Dade police would reveal a disturbing sequence of events.

"It was a little emotional for me hearing just Tyreek's voice in the footage, just knowing Tyreek," Tagovailoa said. "For me, a lot of the instances that I see are just of people that I don't know, and it's happening to those people. And so for it to have happened to somebody that I knew, and then sort of hearing Tyreek's voice throughout that ...."

Tua noted that police-civilian incidents are too common in our country.

'That's real life. No games in that, brotha."

"This isn't just something that Tyreek's gone through," Tua said. "This is something that people in general go through. That's a life thing, you know. Like, football, we're blessed to do this, we're blessed to be able to play this sport, we're blessed to make all this money to do what we love and it's for fun. But that's real life. No games in that, brotha."

Tua said the team has talked about Hill's detention in the aftermath.

"It was a little emotional," Tua said. "And, you know, I don't know, like, exactly how I would have dealt with that in that situation. And I can't speak on something that I've never personally gone through myself, never been through any of that growing up in Hawaii. But (Tyreek) knows that he has my support. I would say with just watching the film, in my opinion, I think it could have been de-escalated another way. I just, you know, I mean there's a lot of things that I think could have been done different. "

'It could have been de-escalated.'

Tua said Tyreek has gathered a group of players to discuss if they can turn this into a positive.

"Do something, to help, you know, change some things," Tua said. "And he's come up with a couple ideas and we've gathered to talk about what we wanted to do. Obviously, we're going to worry about this week, but next week we'll get back together and we'll talk about how we can do something to help change what is going on. I mean, it's right in our backyard, like, that's just what it was."

Tua said the conversations went deeper than the surface.

"They weren't just conversations of us just siding with Tyreek," Tua said. "It was more so conversations of also understanding how things could have been different or just all of that. And so for a lot of us who haven't grown up with the police background being good to us growing up, or bad, we don't know."

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Tua was impressed by how well Hill performed after what could have been a traumatic event. He caught seven passes for 130 yards, including an 80-yard catch and run for a TD in the win over the Jaguars.

"For him to have stayed in the mindset to be able to still come to the game, still play through all of that and did what he did," Tagovailoa said. "I mean just think of that, like what 15-20 minutes before he came to the stadium, I mean he just had gone through all of that and mentally, physically, like what that does to you.

"I mean he didn't blink, he just, he came to the stadium and got everybody turnt. You guys seen what he did? He did what he did and yeah, that's just Tyreek. I definitely seen that and struck a lot of conversation for our locker room and a lot of us."

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