Actor Wayne Brady recalled an incident that left him fearing for his teenage daughter’s life as he shared his own experiences of racism.
In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests taking place across the United states, the Whose Line Is It Anyway? star told Access Hollywood that having once been confronted by armed guards after locking himself out of his own house, he worried about the safety of his daughter Maile Masaka.
Brady recalled: “A couple years ago, she must have been 14 or 15, we live in Malibu. Her mom lives in Malibu. I wasn’t home. She set the alarm off in my house.
“I freaked out because I was giving her the code and for whatever reason she put it in wrong and it wouldn’t accept and then the alarm company [said] we are sending armed response right now.”
The Emmy award winning actor continued: “I was so worried that my daughter could not explain in the heat of the moment, ‘Yes, it’s my house.’ I told her, ‘Get out of the house and run around the corner and down the street and go to your mom’s house!’”
Telling the story of his own run in with the armed response team, Brady explained: “The fear that these people would hurt me outside of my own house, it’s not unprecedented.
“I knew I could handle that because I was a man, but I was fearful for my little girl, and I placed all that fear on her.”
Black Lives Matter protests have continued to take place across the world in response to brutality against black people from authority figures and the death of George Floyd, who died in May after a police officer knelt on his neck for more than 8 minutes.
