The game of white folks calling the cops on black folks for no apparent reason has gotten completely out of hand. They called police on black men barbecuing in Oakland, on a black teen cutting grass, or simply sitting inside a Starbucks awaiting a business meeting. The Rickey Smiley Show reported that cops held actor Ving Rhames at gunpoint in own home after neighbors a “large black man” breaking into Rhames’ a home:
“I am sure you hear about all the reports of Black men being attacked by police,” Clay Cane said to Rhames. You are a big star, but how does racism show itself in your life?” …
“This happened this year. I am in my home, it was around 2:15 p.m. in the afternoon,” Rhames said. “I have a screen door at and then I have a wooden door. … I’m in my house, I’m in a pair of basketball shorts only. I have two English bulldog puppies. I hear a noise in my backyard but I’m thinking the puppies are just running around, and then I get a knock on the front door.”
Rhames continued his story: “I get up, I’m just in my basketball shorts — literally. I get up, I open the door and there is a red dot pointed at my face from a 9-mm. They say put up your hands, literally. I just walked and opened up the door. … Then they said open the front screen door. They say do it with one hand so then I have to do it with one hand. My hands are up and they have me outside.”
There were a group of police officers, a police dog and the captain of police, Rhames also said.
Thankfully, the captain recognized Ving. The police claimed Rhames’ neighbor called and said a “large Black man” was breaking into a home.
Rhames and the police went over to the neighbor’s house across the street from where Rhames lived. Of course, the coward denied ever calling the cops. Could you imagine what could have happened if Rhames had not been a celebrity and the police had not recognized him from the Mission Impossible series?
