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Former “Saturday Night Live” star Jay Pharoah<\/a> is revealing details of a police encounter that left him in a similar situation to\u00a0George Floyd<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a 4-minute video posted to his Instagram, Pharoah, 32, says he\u00a0was out exercising in Los Angeles\u00a0months ago when he was approached by a police officer who ordered him to get on the ground.<\/p>\n

“As I’m walking across the street, Corbin and Ventura, I see an officer to the left of me. I’m not thinking anything of it, because I’m a law-abiding citizen,” Pharoah narrates over the footage.<\/p>\n

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“I see him coming with guns blazing, I see him say ‘get on the ground, put your hands up like you’re an airplane.’ As he’s looking at me, I’m thinking that he’s making a mistake. So I’m looking past where he’s looking. I’m looking at him, and I’m looking past me ’cause I’m like, ‘whoever they’re about to get, it’s just about to be terrible.’ No, he was coming to get me,” the comedian says.<\/p>\n

Seconds later, the surveillance footage shows Pharoah lying on a sidewalk surrounded by four officers.<\/p>\n

“They put me in cuffs, the officer took his knee, put it on my neck. It wasn’t as long as George Floyd, but I know how that feels. I said, ‘why are you doing this? What’s wrong?’ They said, ‘you fit the description of a black man in this area with grey sweatpants on and a grey shirt.’ I told them, ‘Google right now Jay Pharoah, you will see you made a big mistake.'”<\/p>\n

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\n PARK CITY, UTAH – JANUARY 23: Jay Pharoah of “Bad Hair” attends the “Bad Hair” premiere during the 2020 Sundance Film Festival at The Ray on January 23, 2020 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Cindy Ord\/Getty Images)\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The officers then informed him they did, in fact, have the wrong guy. Pharoah says\u00a0he reacted by asking the officers to remove the handcuffs from his wrists.<\/p>\n

“I had never been in cuffs before up until that point,” Pharoah says, adding that it was the first time he had ever experienced “first-hand racism in America.”<\/p>\n

The star then implores\u00a0his followers to educate themselves on the laws.<\/p>\n

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“Understand what the cops are saying to you so if they try to flip anything on you, on our young black men in general, we have the knowledge and power to overthrow that.”<\/p>\n

Pharoah says\u00a0he “could have easily been an Ahmaud Arbery or George Floyd” and concludes\u00a0with a message supporting the Black Lives Matter movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Be in the know. I’m Jay Pharoah, and I’m a black man in America and my life matters. Black lives always matter. You always matter.”<\/p>\n

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Floyd was a 46-year-old\u00a0black man who died in police custody last month after Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, kneeled on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. In a now-viral video, Floyd can be heard telling the cop, “I can’t breathe.”<\/p>\n

Chauvin has been charged with second-degree murder. Three other officers involved in the incident have been fired and face felony charges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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