Los Angeles actor was handcuffed for a self-taping monologue.
LA actor Tyree Freely says he was self-taping a monologue from August Wilson’s Jitney in his apartment for casting director Lean Daniels-Butler’s Quarantine Project. Then he heard a knock on his door and it was the police.
“I looked through the peephole and didn’t see anything, so I opened the door to see 2 LAPD officers on the sides of my door. They told me to step out of my own home as they asked me who was inside. As I informed them that it was just me inside, they weren’t trying to tell me what happened nor were they trying to tell me their names. I told them how I was making a self tape for class (though they didn’t know what a self tape was nor did they believe me). Then, they were trying to place me under arrest for something I had no idea about.”
Apparently, a neighbor heard Freely’s audition and was concerned. As a result, his neighborhood called the LAPD.
“They finally told me someone called them because of some possible fighting going on here, so instead of asking me to wait outside, they decided to ‘detain’ me … They finally said it was suspicion of domestic violence in my apartment! AS I AM IN MY HOME BY MYSELF! Who am I beating up? Myself?”
Freely took to Instagram to share his story and include video taped from the incident. You can view that below:
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