Garcelle Beauvais is opening up about a recent LAPD swatting incident at her home.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum slammed the practice of making a prank call to emergency services as “dangerous” and “the scariest thing I’ve ever gone through” after someone reported a shooting at her house on Sunday, Jan. 25.
“It was 9:30 at night, I was in my pajamas,” she recalled on Good Morning America. “I had a beautiful day, I mean just peaceful, my kids were out of the house, luckily. Next thing I know, helicopters over my house, cops swarm my street, bull horns telling me to ‘come out of the house.’ I came outside and there were weapons and weapons, rifles pointing at me. The cops were calling me to come to them, and my hands are up, and I’m screaming, ‘I’m alone, I’m the homeowner.’”
Beauvais continued, “I kept saying, ‘why am I being handcuffed I haven’t done anything,’” noting they told her, “it’s protocol.”
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Ultimately, LAPD told ABC News they “found no evidence of a shooting,” and confirmed that a “swatting report was completed.”
Noting she’s had “a lot of love and support” since the incident, Beauvais cautioned, “For kids or whomever think that swatting is funny, it is dangerous. It is wasteful of the police’s time and so scary. I’m just so happy my boys weren’t home.”