"If I let my window down, people walking by, driving by, they're going to notice that it's me," Hill said. "And they're going to start taking pictures, and I didn't want to create a scene at all. Like, I just really wanted to get the ticket and then go on about my way."

The officer again told Hill to put his window back down or "I am going to get you out of the car. As a matter of fact, get out of the car."

After the officer ultimately asks Hill to exit his vehicle, Hill then says, "I'm gonna get out, I'm gonna get out." As the officer opens door and removes Hill, the receiver says, "I'm getting out!" At that point, another officer grabs Hill by the back of the head and neck area and forces him to the pavement to put him in handcuffs.

"It just went from 0 to 60, man, from the moment that those guys pulled up behind me, knocked on my window, it went from 0 to 60 immediately," Hill said Monday in an interview with "NBC Nightly News."

"I was opening my door and I was going to get out, you know what I'm saying, but it felt like they was wanting me to move fast."

Hill was able to call the Dolphins' director of security, Drew Brooks, before he was pulled out of his car. The officer who forced Hill to the ground kept him in place with a knee to Hill's back, telling Hill to "stop crying."

"When we tell you to do something, you do it, you understand?" the officer tells Hill. "Not when you want, but when we tell you. You're a little ---- confused."

Hill is escorted to the sidewalk and told to sit down, to which Hill replies that he recently had knee surgery and asks the officers to "hold on." The same officer who pulled Hill out of his vehicle, who was not the closest officer to Hill, then rushes toward Hill, wraps his arms around his shoulders and forces him to the ground again, at one point putting his hands around Hill's neck.

The officer expresses skepticism of Hill's surgery.

"Oh really? What a coincidence," he said to Hill. "Did you have surgery on your ears when we told you to put the window down?"

When Hill complains about being held in place, the officer forces him to the ground before allowing him to sit back up.

"I'll tell you like this -- your job is to serve and protect, right?" Hill says. "You're doing a horrible job of protecting right now. I told you, I'm not going to run. ... That's only going to make matters worse."

Hill verbally complies with the officers' orders throughout the footage. At least one officer attempts to reason with Hill and de-escalate the situation as bystanders film the incident from both the sidewalk and their vehicles.

"I'm just being a Black man, that's it," Hill calls out. "I'm just being Black in America."

"We're dark, too, brother," one officer replies. "We're people of color, too. Don't play like that's special."

Some of Hill's teammates, two of whom were identified later by the Dolphins as defensive lineman Calais Campbell and tight end Jonnu Smith, begin to appear at the scene. Campbell also was briefly placed in handcuffs and Smith was given a citation after they did not immediately comply with requests to leave the scene.

In its statement following the release of the body-cam footage, the Dolphins said they were "saddened by the overly aggressive and violent conduct" directed toward Hill, Campbell and Smith by Miami-Dade police.

"It is both maddening and heartbreaking," the team said, "to watch the very people we trust to protect our community use unnecessary force and hostility towards these players, yet it is also a reminder that not every situation like this ends in peace, as we are grateful this one did."

Noting their "strong and positive relationship" with Miami-Dade police and an understanding that "the vast majority of officers do serve the community with the utmost character," the Dolphins urged the department to take "swift and strong action against the officers who engaged in such despicable behavior."