While promoting Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Ving Rhames revealed a shocking encounter with police officers while in his Santa Monica mansion.
Ving sat down for an interview with the Clay Clane Show where he was asked if he ever faced racism in America.
The beloved star, who played in movies like The Long Walk Home Baby Boy, claimed that earlier this year, the police came into his home and held a gun to his head, just because a female neighbor called them and said this: “Large black man had broken into the home.”
The star of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 explained his ordeal by stating: “This happened this year. I am in my home, it was around 2:15 p.m. in the afternoon.”
He added: “I have a screen door 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. I open the door, and there is a red dot pointed at my face from a 9mm. 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 to do it with one hand, so then I have to do it with one hand. My hands are up, and they have me outside.”
What might have saved Ving are his very recognizable voice and face. Ving says at some point the main officer recognized him and put an end to the nightmare.
The police spoke to the neighbor about the 911 call, and she declined to take any responsibility for her actions and lied about contacting the authorities.
He went on to ask a profound question concerning police brutality and racism in this country: “My problem is, and I said this to them, what if it was my son and he had a video-game remote or something and you thought it was a gun?”
Ving has been in every single Mission Impossible movie playing Luther Stickell, so it is hard not to recognize his face. He has also appeared in famous TV commercials.
