Former Saturday Night Live star Jay Pharoah is getting really real about a horrify thing that happened to him weeks ago while running out in Los Angeles.

The comedian and onetime late light TV star was running in the San Fernando Valley when he was stopped by LAPD men, who laid him on the sand with one policeman kneeling on his cervix. Pharoah supplied footage of such incidents on Instagram, and gave a speech openly about it in an upcoming time from The Talk.

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As you can see( below ), Pharoah was detained by policeman for an unclear reason while he’d been jogging, and as he notes, he” have had an opportunity to easily been an Ahmaud Arbery or a George Floyd.” As he demo in the clip itself, the moment was very scary for him, as he’d been innocently going down the street without any issue up to that part 😛 TAGEND

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The actor and comedian will speak further about the incident during Monday morning’s daytime episode of The Talk. Apparently, he was just trying to jog down Ventura Boulevard when cops came upon him, claiming he was the same description as a missed criminal.

He cancels( below ):

“I see a firearm from my peripheral and I examine and the officer is like,’ Freeze- get on the ground, ’ and I’m like’ Oh snap’ … Three more men drove up … it’s hot, corona is unquestionably something to be worried about, the police officers didn’t have on gloves, they didn’t have on masks…When they set me in cuffs, after they were all on me, an officer threw his knee on my neck.”

Wow.

He goes on to report that very quickly the officers were told the actual suspect had been apprehended, and he was quickly defended to; in response, he “ve told them” he just wanted the handcuffs to come off his hands. No kidding.

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He continued on from there, though, stating something important that we all should take the time to hear 😛 TAGEND

“I was just trying to exercise. It could have readily turned into another situation if I wasn’t who I am. And the phase here is being black in America, is right that, being black in America. Other people can’t level with the same suspicions I have. Leaving the house, we should not have to fear going to the grocery store, going to get some gas, running down the street. It’s called human civility. That’s what it is. It’s about being a human. Be in the know. I’m Jay Pharaoh and I’m a black husband in America and my life affairs. Black lives ever matter. They ever matter.”

No kidding. That’s the world “were living in”. Ever has been.

Time to change it for the better … for EVERYBODY.

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