Actor Kendrick Sampson said he was shot seven times with rubber bullets by police in Los Angeles on Saturday during a protest over the death of George Floyd.
"He pointed the gun DIRECTLY AT ME," Sampson wrote on Twitter, linking to an news report about his experience."I actually got hit 7 times with rubber bullets and many with batons. My boy has stitches."Sampson, a vocal activist, was among thousands of people across the US who protested Floyd's death this weekend.Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man, died in Minneapolis last week at the hands of police.
Protesters say they want to see charges for all four police officers involved in the death of Floyd.Read MoreVideo of the event Sampson described was posted to Twitter by a friend of Sampson. The actor reshared the video to his own social media. The Los Angeles Police Department did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment."If LAPD didn't know cameras were on they would've done much WORSE," Sampson wrote on Twitter about the incident.
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