The NFL star's attorneys said the officers' absence 'evidences their knowledge of wrongdoing,' which the department disputed.

Two traffic citations issued to Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill in September were dismissed after the police officers who were primarily involved did not appear in court.

The initial incident, which occurred shortly before Hill and the Dolphins made their regular season debut in a home game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, sparked national headlines. Body-cam footage shared a day later by the Miami-Dade Police Department showed a rapid escalation of a traffic stop in which Hill was pulled over on suspicion of speeding near his team's stadium. After one officer first engaged with Hill in a discussion that began to get heated, another pulled the NFL star from his vehicle, at which point the officer and some colleagues pushed him facedown to the ground.

An attorney for Hill subsequently accused Miami-Dade police officer Danny Torres of putting his hands "on or around" Hill's neck at least twice. Torres, a 27-year veteran of the department, was placed on administrative duty after the incident.

On Monday, neither Torres nor officer Manuel Batista, who pulled Hill over and issued the citations, showed up for a hearing. The citations, for careless driving and failing to wear a seat belt, were then dismissed due to "lack of prosecution."

The police department said Tuesday that an internal review attributed its lack of involvement in the hearing to "an oversight" that would be "handled administratively."

"A citation dismissed due to this reason," the department said in a statement, "does not indicate that the citation held no merit."

Attorneys for Hill said in a statement Tuesday that officers "should not issue citations unless they are willing to testify in court, under oath, with respect to same."

"Officer Torres and Batista's absence from court today evidences their knowledge of wrongdoing," the attorneys' statement read. "These officers should be disciplined for their failure to appear."

The Dolphins did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the dismissal of the citations. Shortly after the incident had occurred, the team issued a strongly worded statement in which it declared that the footage showed "there are some officers who mistake their responsibility and commitment to serve with misguided power."

After pushing Hill to the ground, per the body-cam footage, officers attempted to sit him down onto a sidewalk while he protested that he just had surgery on his knee.

"When we tell you to do something, you do it, you understand?" an officer was heard telling the veteran wide receiver. "Not when you want, but when we tell you. You're a little f---ing confused."

Two other Dolphins, defensive tackle Calais Campbell and tight end Jonnu Smith, also became embroiled in the episode when they pulled over in their vehicles to see what was happening with their teammate. Campbell was briefly placed in handcuffs, as Hill had been, and Smith was given a citation after they did not immediately comply with requests to leave the scene.

The three players were released shortly afterward and were able to play in the game that day, during which Hill celebrated an 80-yard touchdown by pretending to reenact his handcuffing. In a nationally televised interview the next day, he said his celebrity status might have saved him from rougher treatment.

Smith said Tuesday that the incident "put a lot [in] perspective for me because you never know what people are going through."

"It could've been a random person and they may not have that luxury of playing for the Dolphins, you know what I mean?" he said (via NBC Miami). "And that's the light we've got to continue to spread: Everybody deserves the same amount of justice, everybody deserves the same treatment -- no matter who you play for, what school, work -- everybody should be treated the same."