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Rhames, who recalled Friday's incident on the Clay Cane show on Sirius XM, said that he was in his Santa Monica home in a basketball shorts when the response agents, the weapons fired, have confronted him.
"I open the door [and] facing a 9 mm, and they say, 'Put your hands! The heartbreaking experience, which took place two years ago, was triggered after one of Rhames's neighbors called the police because, according to Rhames and the police, a big African-American is entered the house and thought it was a burglary going on.
PHOTO: This image published by Paramount Pictures shows, in the photo, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames in a scene from "Mission: Impossible" – Fallout. & # 39; (David James / Paramount Pictures and Skydance via AP)
The confrontation ended only after one of the officers interviewed recognized Rhames – not his roles in the movies, but because their sons participated in a basketball league. 19659011] Officers also escorted Rhames to his neighbor's home to present him.
Still, the actor still wanted answers.
"Why are you doing this?" He told the officers. called 911 and said that a big black man was breaking into the house. "
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The Santa Monica Police confirmed Saturday that The incident occurred on July 29, 2016, just before 2 pm local time, Sergeant Saul Rodriguez said the department had received two calls about an African-American man entering a house of neighbors who did not think he lived there
After the officers responded, Rodiguez said that they have de-escalated the situation.
However, he did not confirmed that the police officers who responded had fired their weapons at Rhames, but Rodriguez added that home burglaries can easily become violent, so it would not be uncommon for police officers to shoot for potential burglary. [19659015] But the actor of "Pulp Fiction" says that the result could have been worse. "My problem is … and if c "Was my son, and that he had a remote video game or something, and that you thought it was a gun?" Like … Trayvon has a bag of Skittles, "said Rhames to Travyon Martin, the teenager who was killed by a neighborhood patrol guard in Florida in 2012.
The Santa Police Department Monica said, because of this incident and other similar, that he started a program in January 2017, "in which he encourages residents" to step out of their comfort zone and get to know people on their block. "
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Telling Rhames of the incident comes as news of blacks having the police has them called for seemingly inno reasons cuous exploded on social media. In recent months, a woman called 911 because blacks were barbecuing in a public park in Oakland; another woman called the police on a black girl who was selling bottled water in San Francisco; and, among others, an SVC manager who called 911 because he was questioning the legitimacy of a woman's coupon.
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