The actor and comedian also posted an apparent surveillance video showing the full incident.
I look to my left, I see him coming with guns blazing.
I see him say, ‘Get on the ground.
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Put your hands up like you’re an airplane.’
As he’s looking at me, I’m thinking he’s making a mistake…
They tell me to get on the ground, spread my arms out, put me in cuffs.
The officer took his knee, put it on my neck.
It wasn’t as long as George Floyd.
But I know how that feels.
“I said, ‘Why are you doing this?
What’s wrong?'”
They said, ‘Do you want to sit on the side?’
I’m like, ‘I don’t even want to be on the ground.’
They come back: ‘We’re sorry.
We just got a call that it’s not you.’
I said, ‘Get these fing cuffs off me.’
“I had never been in cuffs before,” Pharoah added.
“I’m from the ‘burbs, you know?
My parents tried to shelter me and my sister for years.
So we never saw that.
I hadn’t experienced firsthand racism until this year.
Black lives always matter.
I’m still here to tell my story.
But I could have easily been an Ahmaud Arbery or a George Floyd.
But I’m not, so I can tell my story.
This is what you oughta do: Educate yourselves on the laws.
Understand what the cops are saying to you.
Be in the know.”
representative said they’re looking into the matter.
The officer has been charged with murder and manslaughter.
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