Ving Rhames Says Police Held Him at Gunpoint in His Own Home

"I get up, I open the door and there's a red dot pointed at my face from a 9-millimeter, and they say, 'Put up your hands.' Literally," the actor said on SiriusXM's 'The Clay Cane Show.'

Ving Rhames says he was held at gunpoint in his home earlier this year when a neighbor reported that "a large black man" had broken in.

During an interview Friday on SiriusXM’s The Clay Cane Show, the Mission: Impossible — Fallout star was asked about his experience with racism. He says the incident occurred while he was watching ESPN at his home in Santa Monica.

"I get up, I open the door and there's a red dot pointed at my face from a 9-millimeter, and they say, 'Put up your hands.' Literally," the actor explained, adding that the group of police included a man Rhames said was the captain of the police, who recognized him because their sons play basketball against each other. "They recognized me and apologized, and I said, 'Why are you doing this?' He said to me, 'A woman called 911 and said a large black man was breaking into the house.'"

Rhames said he and the police then went over to the woman's house, and she denied it. "So here I am, in my own home, alone in some basketball shorts, just because someone called and says a large black man is breaking in," he said, adding, "My problem is, what if it was my son and he had a video game remote or something and [the police] thought it was a gun just like Trayvon [Martin] had a bag of Skittles?"

Martin was an unarmed 17-year-old high school student shot and killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, who was later acquitted on a second-degree murder charge after claiming he shot Martin in self-defense, sparking worldwide protests and outrage.

Requests for comment from the Santa Monica Police Department were not immediately returned.