A Black realtor was showing a house to a Black man and his 15-year-old son in a Michigan suburb last week when they looked outside and saw police officers surrounding the property with their guns drawn.
"I knew once they surrounded the home they were preparing for a standoff," the father, Roy Thorne, told CNN's Don Lemon Friday."And so my instincts told me we need to get out of here, we need to get to where they can see that we're not a threat.
Black drivers say they're targeted over air fresheners 03:41'Don't report people doing normal things'Two officers unholstered their firearms during the incident, per the statement from Wyoming police -- one who was moving around the property's perimeter of the house and one who was giving cover near the front.
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