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A Black homeowner claims he endured the “most humiliating experience of my life” when white police officers answered a false burglar alarm. The incident took place at his North Carolina home and ended up placing him in handcuffs at gunpoint and walking Kazeem Oyeneyin to a police car in just his underwear as his neighbors watched.

“I was counting the seconds because I thought he was going to kill me,” Oyeneyin, 31, told ABC News referring to the confrontation with police at his home in Raleigh. “He was shaking the gun. All he has to do is slip and hit that trigger and I’m dead.”

According to Raleigh police, the incident is under investigation.

“The Department is looking into this incident and reviewing our officers’ actions,” Raleigh police said in a statement to WTVD. “We have attempted to contact the homeowner several times over the past few days to discuss this incident with him.”

Oyeneyin said the incident which occurred on Aug. 17, when a friend who was staying at his home left and triggered his home security system. He said he was asleep and didn’t hear the alarm as soon as it went off but his phone which was linked to his security system woke him up.

“I go downstairs. I disengage the alarm. I go back upstairs, I laid down. Twenty minutes later, I just hear these loud noises,” Oyeneyin told ABC News. “So, I come down my steps, I grab my gun because I don’t know who’s in the house.”

Oyeneyin said the incident while he was sleeping because he works nights as a party and hip-hop concert promoter under the nickname “Tim Boss.”

Home security video that he shared with ABC News, shows an officer holding a firearm in his hand and pushing open the unlocked front door and began yelling “Police. If you’re inside, make yourself known. Come on out with your hands up.”

Oyeneyin can be heard saying responding that he had gun, prompting the officer to order him to drop the firearm and step outside the front door. However, the homeowner paused in his foyer and started videoing with his phone while asking the officer, What for?”

“Just turn around and put your hands behind your back and get down on your knees,” the officer says to Oyeneyin, according to the security video. Then Oyeneyin again asked why and attempted to explain he was in his own home, the officer who was still pointing a gun at him repeated to get on his knees and to “turn around and face away from me,” according to the video. Oyeneyin would eventually complied with the orders and the officer handcuffed him. The homeowner asked to see the officer’s supervisor as a police car siren can be heard in the background. A sergeant and two other officers entered the home, Oyeneyin stood up and attempted to explain that he owned the home.

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.

Oyeneyin claims the officer walked him handcuffed and in just his boxer shorts to a police car about five houses away.

“While the cop was trying to put me in the car, I’m screaming, like ‘Yo!’ because I want my neighbors to come out and tell them that I live there,” Oyeneyin said. “So, the neighbors are just looking through the windows and I’m just humiliated. Nobody wants to say nothing. Everybody’s just looking.”

Oyeneyin told ABC News that he is still outraged about incident. “This was one of the most humiliating experiences of my life,” he said, “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. They think I’m a whole criminal over here.” Oyeneyin added that he’s thankful that his 6-month-old son wasn’t at home at the time of the incident. “My son was with his mother at the time, thank God,” he said. Oyeneyin claims officers identifying themselves as being from internal affairs showed up at his house to ask him about the incident. He said he declined to accept their invitation to go to the police station and make a formal complaint. “They’ve got me scared. I ain’t going to lie to you,” Oyeneyin said. “I don’t know how to trust them.”

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