“I could have easily been Ahmaud Arbery or a George Floyd.”
Saturday Night Live alum Jay Pharoah said in an Instagram post Friday that he was recently stopped by LAPD officers with guns drawn and cuffed while one of them put a knee to his neck.
Pharoah revealed the encounter along with security video of the incident, showing four officers stopping the comedian and ordering him to the ground with guns drawn.
“As he’s looking at me I’m thinking that he’s making a mistake,” Pharoah said in the post. “I’m looking at him, and I’m looking past me because I’m like, whoever they’re about to get, it’s about to get terrible. No, he was coming to get me.” Continue reading.