On previous visits from police after his home security system mistakenly rings, Kazeem Oyeneyin shows his identification to prove he’s the homeowner, a possible fine may be involved, and then they’re on their way. 

Now, the Raleigh, NC homeowner, who has been living in his home for the past 5 years, is describing their last visit as the “most humiliating experience of my life.”

Wearing only boxer shorts, Oyeneyin stood in the foyer of his home as an officer responding to his house security system’s false alarm drew his weapon. 

“Turn around and face away from me!” the officer said, as can be seen in video captured from Oyeneyin’s front door surveillance camera. 

“Why, for what?!” he asked.

After all, the 31-year-old man, who is known as “Tim Boss,” a successful party and hip-hop concert promoter, was in bed after disengaging the security alarm his friend, who had spent the night, set off while exiting the home. 

It’s why he was in his boxers when he heard an officer, who was responding to a “4-4” or burglar alarm in progress, yell from the doorway, “Hey, if you’re inside make yourself known.” 

“I just laid back down and all I heard was somebody screaming downstairs,” Oyeneyin told ABC 11. “So I grab my firearm because I don’t know what’s going on. And I run down the stairs and it’s a cop.”

Although he informed the officer of his firearm, which he has a permit to carry concealed, and immediately placed it on the floor when the officer demanded, “Drop the gun! Drop the gun,” he was still placed in handcuffs as four other Raleigh police officers arrived on the scene. 

Officers then placed him outside to wait as they searched his home. None of the officers asked him for proper ID. 

“The Department is looking into this incident and reviewing our officers’ actions,” Raleigh Police said in a statement to ABC 11. “We have attempted to contact the homeowner several times over the past few days to discuss this incident with him.”

Oyeneyin felt the incident escalated because he is a black man living in a nice home the responding officer didn’t believe he owned. 

Now, he wants an apology as Raleigh community advocate Kerwin Pittman is calling for disciplinary action against all the officers involved. 

“There’s no reason this man should have been pulled out of his house, not asked for paper ID and it progressed that far,” Pittman, the executive director of RREPS (Recidivism Reduction Education Program Services, said. “This man was criminalized, humiliated, stigmatized in his own home.”