Saturday Night Live cast member, posted a video that included security footage of the incident to his Instagram page last Friday.The comedian said he was startled by the police approaching him as he was exercising and wearing noise canceling headphones that made it difficult for him to understand what was happening.
He added that as a “law abiding citizen” he was sure they were headed for someone else. In the clip, four officers head towards him with their guns drawn. “They tell me to get on the ground, spread my arms out,” Pharoah says in the video.
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