Earlier this week, DeAndre Hopkins dismissed the notion that he was flipping off a caravan of President Trump supporters while on the way to the Arizona Cardinals home game on Sunday simply because of who they were supporting. He explained instead that the dispute was started by the group of drivers that began honking at him and one specific driver that brake-checked him on the highway.
TMZ Sports has now obtained footage that shows Hopkins zooming past those drivers some hours before he appeared on Sunday Night Football.
Below, you can see him enter the emergency lane and speed past the caravan.
Before the footage, witnesses claimed that the all-pro WR was weaving in and out of the caravan while shooting them the middle finger.
Deandre Hopkins flipped off a bunch of Trump supporters on his way to the stadium then put up 10 catches for 100 yards and a TD. Legend. pic.twitter.com/L1m2aijJfN
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“Driving down the highway I guess I got in between a train or a bunch of cars that I wasn’t supposed to be in between in my car and some of those were honking the horn at me and stuff like that I guess to tell me to get out of their way, and I didn’t,” Hopkins said.
“The guy in front of me was stepping on his brakes and tried to stop dead in traffic, and I got around him and I stuck him a birdie. I really was about to do the peace sign to him, but this finger right here was kinda hurting, so it didn’t make it up in time. But I was like, ‘Damn, dude, you’re trying to stop on the brakes in dead traffic, cause I’m in your guys’ train and what not just trying to go to work?’”
“There wasn’t nothing thrown out the car or anything like that. No speeding. Obviously, you see me right there. If I was in a Ferrari speeding, I don’t think you would be able to take a still picture of me. That’s all,” he said.
The 28-year-old would go on to beat the Seattle Seahawks, handing them their first loss of the season. He finished the game with 10 receptions for 103 yards and one touchdown.
