Jay Pharoah Reflects On Being Detained By Police: People Were ‘Looking At Me Like I’m An Animal’

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Jay Pharoah is standing up and speaking out after being racially profiled by police officers in California. Pharoah revealed last week that he was out jogging when multiple cops approached him.

The “SNL” alum was ordered to the floor and one officer kneeled on his neck. It was later determined that Pharoah was mistaken for a suspect already in custody. “They’re telling me to lie on the ground,” Pharoah told “CBS This Morning” host Gayle King. “It was a bad situation, I just felt disgusting.

People are driving past looking at me like I’m an animal, a criminal, I did something. But I’m an innocent bystander.” RELATED: Jay Pharoah Shares Footage Of Cop Kneeling On His Neck Pharoah said he could have “easily been an Ahmaud Arbery or a George