Sounds like the man needs a lawyer who will sue the police for traumatizing him and causing PTSD. He probably won't be able to do his job ever again because of this incident and deserves at least a few million bucks plus free health care for himself and his family for life.Black realtor handcuffed by cops while showing house. Client and his teenage son cuffed too
A Black real-estate agent and his Black client were handcuffed during a home showing in Michigan after police reportedly got a call of a break-in in the Grand Rapids suburb of Wyoming.
News station WGN reports that Eric Brown was showing a home to Roy Thorne and Thorne’s teenage son when they spotted police gathered outside, pointing guns toward the property. Brown said he thought he might have to reschedule the showing because cops appeared to be “looking for a criminal.”
The trio engaged the officers, who instructed them to exit the house in a single-file line with their hands raised.
“They keep their guns drawn on us until all of us were in cuffs,” Thorne told WGN. “So, that was a little traumatizing I guess. You know, under the current climate of things, you just don’t know what’s going to happen.”
Brown explained the situation to police and showed them his real estate credentials, at which time officers un-cuffed the trio and apologized. Police said they were responding to a 911 call from a neighbor.
Capt. Timothy Pols told a local station that the caller believed a suspect who’d been arrested breaking into that same home a week earlier had returned. He denied there was “a racial element” to the police response.
Thorne said an officer came back to apologize a second time, but the “damage” was done.
“My son was a little disturbed. He hasn’t seen anything like that,” Thorne said. “He’s not going to forget this.”
Brown said the incident has him “pretty anxious, or nervous or maybe even a little bit scared” about how he can protect himself while showing houses in the future.
Pols said in a statement that the Wyoming Police Department’s officers were simply adhering to protocol when they detained Brown and the Thornes.
“After listening to the individuals’ explanation for why they were in the house, officers immediately removed the handcuffs,” the statement reads. “The Wyoming Department of Public Safety takes emergency calls such as this seriously and officers rely on their training and department policy in their response.”
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