Police in Michigan are standing by a group of officers who drew their guns on and handcuffed a real estate agent, a potential home buyer and his 15-year-old
, a potential home buyer and his 15-year-old son, all three of whom are Black and were touring a home on Sunday.
Eric Brown, 46, of Grand Rapids Real Estate, was giving Roy Thorne and Thorne's son, Sammy, a tour of the two-story home in the early afternoon when he saw a police officer circling the property with his gun drawn,. Brown had access to a lockbox that held the house key and let himself in, as he usually does when he is working as a real estate agent, he said.
After Brown convinced them he was a real estate agent by having an officer take out his wallet to find his business card and showing them how he had retrieved a key from a lockbox at the home, the officers removed the handcuffs and apologized, he said.Brown said he feared for their lives, adding that Sammy was “clearly terrified and traumatized by the situation.”
Brown later told NBC News that he believed the department's response was inappropriate. The police captain "released that statement without enough initial due diligence to substantiate it," he said. "Basically, she had say to something. She’s going to have to answer some really hard questions here soon.”
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