Black realtor and his client handcuffed outside a home he was showing.

A Black realtor in Wyoming, Michigan, was showing a property to a client last Sunday when police arrived and handcuffed them.

Eric Brown was showing the home to his client, Roy Thorne, and Thorne’s 15-year-old son, Samuel, all of whom are Black, on Sunday afternoon when police surrounded the home, guns drawn, and ordered them to come outside, according to the The Washington Post reported.

At first, Brown thought a suspect was on the loose and might try to come inside the house to hide since the doors were open. He feared they would be stuck inside as hostages.

“If there’s anywhere to run, it’s going to be in this house,” he told NBC News. “They’re about to flush a criminal in to this house. We’re going to be hostages in here, and Sammy’s in the basement.”

Thorne, who is an Army veteran opened a window and tried to speak to the police. As soon as the officer saw him he pointed his gun towards the house.

“I knew once they surrounded the home they were preparing for a standoff,” Thorne, told CNN. “And so my instincts told me we need to get out of here, we need to get to where they can see that we’re not a threat.”

The two men and the teenage boy were ordered to come out of the house with their hands in the air.

At least three police vehicles were waiting outside and officers were shielding themselves behind open car doors with guns drawn.

The group was handcuffed and placed in separate vehicles.

Before Brown was placed in the cruiser, he urged an officer to go into his pocket, pull out his wallet and find his business card, showing that he is a real estate agent and explain why they were at the house. After clearing up the situation, police quickly released them and apologized.

Police told them the house was broken into weeks earlier and that a neighbor had called about a suspected break in again. They said the neighbor thought she recognized their car as the same black Mercedes used by the person that had broken in. But, according to the Washington Post, when police arrived, the cars outside the home were a Chevrolet and a Hyundai.

Brown and Thorne said that they felt they were racially profiled.

“The level of the response and the aggressiveness of the response was definitely a take back, it really threw me back,” Brown said. He also said he thought they were all going to die that day.

Thorne is also worried about the impact the incident would have on his teenage son. “My son was a little disturbed, he hasn’t seen anything like that … he’s not going to forget this,” he told local outlet WOOD-TV.

Still, police contend racial profiling was not a factor in this case.

“After a thorough internal review of the actions of each of our public safety officers who responded to this incident, we have concluded race played no role in our officers’ treatment of the individuals who were briefly detained, and our officers responded appropriately,” Wyoming police said in a statement. “While it is unfortunate that innocent individuals were placed in handcuffs, our officers responded reasonably and according to department policy based on the information available to them at the time.”