Charles Barkley slams media over Tyreek Hill-Miami Dade police detainment coverage

Charles Barkley has a big issue with how the media covers Tyreek Hill‘s detainment by the Miami-Dade Police Department. The NBA legend joined Roc and Maunch with Jimmy B. on Fox Sports 910 Radio in Phoenix this week where he sounded off on the media making it about race.

“I hate that we’re gonna throw it in the media because you know the guys are gonna quickly go to race and it bothers me,” Barkley said, per Awful Announcing. “We got so many fools in the media who love to play the race card. I said, ‘Wait a minute, they just did the same thing to Scottie Scheffler.’

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“The one thing you can’t do as a celebrity, you can’t say, ‘Do you know who I am?’ You say, ‘Yes, sir,’ cooperate one hundred percent. Like I said, I don’t know what happened, but when we let these fools on TV and radio start talking about it, they go straight to, ‘Was it racism?’ I’m like wait a minute now, we don’t know that. I saw the police report say he was uncooperative. But the one thing I hate when we put stuff in the media and we let guys who race-bait start throwing things out there, like I said, wait a minute, the same thing just happened to Scottie Scheffler, who actually went on got booked! He went down to the big house!”

Tyreek Hill cited for speeding and not wearing a seat belt

Body cam footage showed Tyreek Hill being taken down by officers after a traffic stop. He was placed in handcuffs and was cited for speeding at a “visual estimation of 60 mph” and not wearing a seat belt. Hill was eventually released and went on to helped the Miami Dolphins beat the Jacksonville Jaguars in the team’s season opener.

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“Upon being stopped, Mr. Hill was not immediately cooperative with the officers on scene who, pursuant to policy and for their immediate safety, placed Mr. Hill in handcuffs. Mr. Hill, still uncooperative, refused to sit on the ground and was therefore redirected to the ground,” Steadman Stahl, the president of the South Florida Police Benevolent Association, said in a statement, per ESPN.

As Charles Barkley mentioned, Scottie Scheffler was in a similar situation earlier this year where he was falsely arrested on his way to the PGA Championship. The top golf star was booked and spent a short anount of time in jail.