Kazeem Oyeneyin says he was handcuffed and put in police car in his underwear.
An African-American homeowner says he endured the"most humiliating experience of my life" when white police officers answered a false burglar alarm at his North Carolina home and ended up placing him in handcuffs at gunpoint and walking him to a police car in just his underwear as his neighbors watched.
He said he was asleep and didn't hear the alarm as soon as it went off, but his cellphone, which is linked to his security system, sounded and woke him up. Security video in his home, which he shared with ABC News, shows an officer holding a gun in his hand and pushing open the unlocked front door and yelling,"Police. If you're inside, make yourself known. Come on out with your hands up."
When Oyeneyin again asked why and tried to explain he was in his own home, the officer still pointing a gun at him repeated that Oyeneyin get on his knees and to"turn around and face away from me," according to the video. The sergeant ordered Oyeneyin to sit back down. When Oyeneyin tried to tell him he had done nothing wrong, the sergeant told two officers to take him to a police car and said,"We're going to clear the house," according to the video.
The sergeant is heard on the security video telling his colleagues,"Tell everybody they need to come on out. This is the homeowner.""This was one of the most humiliating experiences of my life," he said, adding that he doesn't have a criminal record and has a permit to carry a concealed weapon."I mean, I felt like my character was defamed. I went outside the other day, the neighbors wouldn't even wave at me. They don't know what's going on.
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