Jay Pharoah shares footage of an LAPD officer kneeling on his neck

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“I could have easily been an Ahmaud Arbery or a George Floyd," the SNL alum said in recalling the recent incident in an Instagram video and on The Talk, saying police stopped him while he was jogging in Los Angeles. Pharoah showed footage of the incident that was captured by a nearby security camera. Pharoah said the police told him he fit the description of a man they were seeking – “a black man with gray sweatpants and a gray shirt." “I see a gun from my peripheral and I look and the officer is like, ‘Freeze – get on the ground,’ and I’m like ‘Oh snap,” Pharoah said. The comedian added he was ordered to drop to the ground and “spread your arms like an airplane...Three more officers drove up… it’s hot, corona is definitely something to be worried about, the police officers didn’t have on gloves, they didn’t have on masks…When they put me in cuffs, after they were all on me, an officer put his knee on my neck.”