“Baby Boy” actor Ving Rhames says California police officers pulled a gun on him in his own home after a neighbour called 911 to report a “large black man” breaking in.
According to Rhames, he was in his Santa Monica house in basketball shorts when responding officers, guns drawn, confronted him, “I open the door [and] there’s a red dot pointed at my face from a 9 mm, and they say, ‘Put up your hands!’ he told The Clay Cane Show on Sirius XM.
The harrowing experience, which happened two years ago, was set in motion after one of Rhames’ neighbours called police because, Rhames and police said, they noticed a large African American man entering the home and thought it was a burglary in progress.
The confrontation ended only after one of the responding officers recognized Rhames — not from his roles in movies, but because their sons competed in a basketball league.
Officers also escorted Rhames to his neighbor’s home to introduce him.
Still, the actor still wanted answers. “Why are you doing this?” he said he asked the officers. “They said, ‘A woman called 911 and said a large black man was breaking into the house.'”
