Pharoah says the encounter happened in Los Angeles a week before footage surfaced showing the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was chased down and shot while jogging in Georgia in February.
is opening up about his own experience with police this year, in which he says officers drew guns on him and knelt on his neck.video posted Friday, sharing footage that he says captures the incident.
"I look to my left," Pharoah continued. "I see the officer. 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." A time stamp in the top left corner of the video Pharoah shared indicates the footage was captured on April 26., but I know how that feels," Pharoah continued. "I said, 'Why are you doing this? What's wrong?' They said, 'You fit the description of a Black man in this area, with gray sweatpants on and a gray shirt.' I told them, 'If you Google right now Jay Pharoah, you will see that you made a big mistake.
In his video, Pharoah added that"Black lives always matter" and that he"could have easily been an Ahmaud Arbery or a George Floyd."
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