supports HTML5 videoDon Cheadle has revealed police have ‘put guns to his head’ during numerous stop and searches. The Black Monday star opened up about his encounters with law enforcement in the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The 55-year-old revealed he was stopped ‘more times than he could count’ by authorities because he ‘fit the description’. Don also reflected on the horrific death of George Floyd – a black man who died after a white cop knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes during his arrest in Minneapolis.
The actor said that unfortunately the tragedy was ‘nothing new’, and that he’d had friends who were ‘almost killed’ by police ‘for nothing’.
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