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Comedian Jay Pharoah Was Stopped by LAPD, Shares Security Footage of Cop with Knee on His Neck



"I'm still here to tell my story, but I could have easily been an Ahmaud Arbery or a George Floyd," the actor said in an Instagram video Friday


Comedian Jay Pharoah Was Stopped by LAPD, Shares Security Footage of Cop with Knee on His Neck

Jay Pharoah is sharing details of a recent encounter he had with police while exercising in Los Angeles.

The former Saturday Night Live star, 32, shared his story with a video on Instagram on Friday.

Pharoah explained that about a week before the video surfaced last month of Ahmaud Arbery being shot and killed while out for a jog in Georgia, he was stopped by police while running along Ventura Boulevard.

"As I'm walking across the street, Corbin and Ventura, I see an officer to the left of me. I'm not thinking anything of it, because I'm a law-abiding citizen," Pharoah explained in his Instagram video, sharing security footage of the encounter.

"I see him coming with guns blazing, I see him say 'get on the ground, put your hands up like you're an airplane.' As he's looking at me, I'm thinking that he's making a mistake. So I'm looking past where he's looking. I'm looking at him, and I'm looking past me cause I'm like, 'whoever they're about to get, this is going to be terrible.'



Comedian Jay Pharoah Was Stopped by LAPD, Shares Security Footage of Cop with Knee on His NeckJay Pharoah is sharing details of a recent encounter he had with police while exercising in Los Angeles.The former Saturday Night Live star, 32, shared his story with a video on Instagram on Friday.Pharoah explained that about a week before the video surfaced last month of Ahmaud Arbery being shot and killed while out for a jog in Georgia, he was stopped by police while running along Ventura Boulevard."As I'm walking across the street, Corbin and Ventura, I see an officer to the left of me. I'm not thinking anything of it, because I'm a law-abiding citizen," Pharoah explained in his Instagram video, sharing security footage of the encounter.

"I see him coming with guns blazing, I see him say 'get on the ground, put your hands up like you're an airplane.' As he's he's looking at me, I'm thinking that he's making a mistake. So I'm looking past where he's looking. I'm looking at him, and I'm looking past me cause I'm like, 'whoever they're about to get, this is going to be terrible.'"

"No," Pharoah said. "He was coming to get me."

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The footage that Pharoah shared shows a police car pull up to the sidewalk, followed by four officers with guns drawn approaching the comedian, who is on the ground.

"Four officers got their guns blazing, they tell me to get on the ground, spread my arms out, they put me in cuffs, the officer took his knee, put it on my neck," Pharoah said. "It wasn't as long as George Floyd, but I know how that feels

Floyd died on May 25 after he was pinned down by police officers in Minneapolis, one who kept his knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes.

The White Famous star said that the officers told him he "fit the description of a black man in this area with gray sweatpants on and a gray shirt."

"I told them if you look, Google right now Jay Pharoah, you will see that you made a big mistake," the actor said, adding that shortly after he was told the officers had received a call that he was not the person they were looking for.

"I had never been in cuffs before up until that point," Pharoah said. "I'm a law-abiding citizen."

"I'm from the 'burbs, you know? Luckily my parents, what they did was they tried to shelter me and my sister for years. So we never saw that. I didn't experience first-hand racism in America until this year," he said.

Pharoah encouraged viewers to get educated.

"Black lives always matter. My life matters. I'm still here to tell my story, but I could have easily been an Ahmaud Arbery or a George Floyd. And I'm not, and I can tell my story so I will tell y'all, this is what you need to do: educate yourselves. Educate yourselves on the laws, understand what the cops are saying to you, so if they try to flip anything on you, on young black men, on black men in general, we have the knowledge and we have the power to overthrow that, because we're well-rounded. We know what's going on. Be in the know."

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