'SNL' Alum Jay Pharoah Stopped by LAPD, Knee to Neck in Case of 'Mistaken Identity'

was jogging down a San Fernando Valley street, when multiple LAPD cops pulled their guns on him, ordered him spreadeagled on the ground and one officer then put his knee on Jay's neck ... Jay says all because he matched a vague description of a black suspect wearing gray.Ahmaud Arbery

The cops told Jay he fit the description of a suspect -- black male wearing gray sweatpants and a gray shirt.

There’s no agenda to push here. They were ready to blow this black man away in broad daylight all over someone they thought “fits the description”. You are part of the problem and this is an example of why we need police reform. Their fought action was to be ready to shoot smh ✊🏽

Damn powerful

If you as African Americans do not seek separation from whites, then your lives will continually be wasted by whites in police uniform, the whites people of the USA/EU have a proven history of terror on brown African people.

vote4robgill 'Jay was cuffed, and with a knee to the neck, he urgently tried explaining he was not the guy they were looking for. He told the cops to look him up on Google, adding, 'You will see that you made a big mistake.' He says the cops released him 'a minute later.'

Sure sure.

🤦‍♀️. ...hope n🙏🏻for a peaceful world

Cinnpie 😯😔😐

Unconscious bias, fit the description, etc. Thank God this interaction was recorded and Jay is still here to talk about it. BlackLivesMatter

O brother

WOW! This knee to the neck needs to be outlawed!

House Negros vs. Field Negros

I bet he was polite lol

It’s Time to stop this racism, bigotry and injustice in America 🇺🇸NoJusticeNoPeace BlackLivesMattter

Remember when LAPD was looking for Christopher Dorner? They were looking for a dark gray Nissan Titan and instead put 103 bullets into a blue Toyota Tacoma driven by two women. Standard operating procedure is to use the 'matching the description of' routine. Don't fall for it.

What was this supposed suspect's supposed 'crime'?

AbrasiveMildly Mistaken identity is never an excuse. Systemic racism is rampant. What you can get away with as a starting point proves the problem. BLM ERA VoteBlue2020

That’s terrible. Wtf is it with these cops?

I'm sorry but from an outsider looking in America has Racism interwoven in to the fabric of its whole society....and the white people are in constant denial...not all of them but the greater majority...all this should have been sorted out decades ago but here we are in 2020...sad

It's always you fit the description. B.s. BlackLivesMatter

Its just another case of 'revenge profiling' by racist police.

BoxingEGO This excuse is no longer acceptable

All I have to say. Ive seen and read comments saying we as black people don't take responsibility for our actions. These are the same people who say we, black people, are all in jail. People out here working my nerves. BlackLivesMatter

thats a standard excuse 🖕

🤬

😡

He got to enact his 'Black man on Google' privileges, so I don't think he gets it.

Oh wow

Wow. This shit is happening everywhere!

Wow!! People swear that black folks just be exaggerating though 🤦🏾‍♂️

Fk the police

He’s not funny anyway

He does look like a stereotypical description though

who ? what ? what does he want

BS BS

LAPDHQ and MANY other racists think ALL Black people look alike. 🙄

Via_Oliii

😓😓😓😓😓💔💔💔

SenoraWrites

Y’all ment to put In Case Of Racial Profiling

Police need to check a person’s ID or look up their information before it gets to this point.

Where WhitlockJason at? Same man who told LeBron and all celebrities that they'll never experience racism because they have 'money'

Kretuhtuh i mean, what about 'identifications please ' ?

See your still black. No matter what tax bracket your in.

Ruth_HHopkins When will police brutality against people of color end? blacklivesmatter

Protests won’t stop because this continues to happen 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

This is what we be TALKING ABOUT! Dumb ass cops.

Moral of the story, comply and you don’t get hurt.

Black ppl are truly not safe in America.The fact that gun is the 1st thing the cops draws and point when they approach Black ppl is very frightening. How will they feel if the same thing is done to them? These ppl are playing with dynamite!

It’s cause he was black. Not sure how I would feel about cops after this, if I was him or black

He was racially profiled. What else is new? I'm sick of this mess. Police need to get their act together.

JamilahLemieux That's the point it doesn't matter. How do you mistakenly put a knee on someone's neck.

We have learned nothing. ,,,,,

It’s amazing how many people are defending these actions...there’s absolutely no need for them to do all that...

Can’t wait to read all the cop apologist and alllivesmatter folk tweets. They keep exposing themselves for the bigots they are! idontfeelracist

GigiJailed I wonder if he will be all newblack postracial jokey jokey with his white colleagues when he returns.

LAPDChiefMoore LAPDHQ we all look the same to LAPD, they rather see all of us punished to death.

Fire those cops enough is enough

Just ...wow.

I guess a knee to the neck is the new choke hold. Do they teach that at the academy or is it passed down from one racist cop to another?

When President Obama was elected, he said that change had come to America. It's clear now that not enough change has come to America.

🤦🏽‍♂️

Pharoah should sue

LIKE SOME OF YOUR MUSIC: BUT BELOW NECK: IS NOT THE NECK- NOT THE SAME THING AT ALL AND TIME WAS CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WITHOUT COMPLETE AND TOTAL DEFIANCE/RESPECT!!! DO YOU HATE ME: YET? HAVE I MISLEAD YOU... YOUR MEDIA WILL NOT MISLEAD MY PEOPLE. PERIOD!!!

Detaining someone who looks like a suspect isn't a crime. And he dropped the 'Google me' line. Fuck this guy.

Watch the video. I love Jay but watch and listen. 1. They were looking for a suspect. 2. He complied and did not resist. 3. The knee was between the shoulder blades, not his neck. 4. He even said he had NEVER experienced this growing up as a black man until this year.

Could have gone very differently if he didn’t comply. Problem starts where people start running their mouths, resisting, fighting, running away. That’s when things go bad, very bad. This is what had to be tought.

_killthefake _killthefake they are attacking anybody now ?!?!

Why do y’all write your captions like this, just terrible.

The police are mocking us now. The George Floyd case is GLOBAL and they’re still kneeling on people’s necks. It’s like they’re laughing in our faces or making a joke out of this. How depraved is that?

Showtime be like 'We still don't qwhite see the vision for a show like... White Famous' JayPharoah

I don’t see the foot on the neck.... unless I’m wrong? Someone called in a description of exactly what he’s wearing?!?! Adding “just like George Floyd” I’ll wait.... 🤔

There’s no need to make everybody lay down on the ground before handcuffing them. It’s a fucked up police tactic of intimidation and to dominate. All police should be trained on the fine art of de-escalation as opposed to escalating situations. Fuck those gestapo tactics!

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