Philly Cops Challenge Black College Student to Pickup Basketball Game — and Arrest Him [View all]

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Philly Cops Challenge Black College Student to Pickup Basketball Game — and Arrest Him After He Beats Them
Perhaps the officers were not happy about being schooled in basketball by a 21-year-old.

A black junior college basketball player said he was briefly detained by two Philadelphia police officers

The 21-year-old Hill said the officers joked that they didn’t look very good and “started talking trash” – so he challenged them to a game.

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A pair of short video clips posted on Vine, showing Hill beating the officers on crossover dribbles, went viral.

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He said the officers took him to the police station saying they thought they saw him with contraband, but they eventually let him go without charge.

“They didn’t explain it to me,” Hill said. “They just took me in there, handcuffed me to a bench for an hour and a half. They were doing a search on the car. They searched the car for like an hour. They didn’t find nothing, and they let me go. The whole time they were telling me how they weren’t going to lock me up, that they were targeting my friend.”
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