The comedian Jay Pharoah says he was recently stopped and handcuffed by Los Angeles police, with one officer kneeling on his neck in a restraint similar to the one that ended in George Floyd’s death. In a video posted to Instagram, the former Saturday Night Live actor said he was exercising in Los Angeles when four officers approached him with guns drawn, handcuffed him and held him to the ground . Pharoah said the incident took place about a week before Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed by two white men while jogging in Glynn county, Georgia. He said the officers told him he was held because he fit the description of “a black man in this area, with gray sweatpants on and a gray shirt”. Security footage included in the video appears to show Pharoah walking down a sidewalk when a police officer runs up to him from behind with his gun pointed at him. Another officer on foot joins that officer, also with his gun drawn, as a police cruiser rolls onto the scene. Two officers quickly exit the vehicle, one with his gun pointed. The security footage appears to show the officers gathering around Pharoah to handcuff him as he lays spread out on the ground, and one officer putting his knee on Pharoah’s neck.“They tell me to get on the ground, spread my arms out,” Pharoah said in the video. “They put me in cuffs. The officer takes his knee, puts it on my neck. It wasn’t as long as George Floyd, but I know how it feels.”Pharoah, who during his stint on Saturday Night Live portrayed Barack Obama, told the officers to look him up on Google. “You will see that you made a big mistake,” he said he told them.