Actress Alyssa Milano responds to controversy over police call at her home

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Actress Alyssa Milano&comma; who has voiced support for the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;defund the police movement&comma;” has defended herself against &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;trolls” after emergency services were called to her home following reports of a man with a gun&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Milano has backed calls for police budgets to be reduced in the wake of George Floyd’s death in custody in May&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The former Charmed star was accused of hypocrisy on social media after officers were called to her home in Bell Canyon&comma; Southern California&comma; on Sunday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She has now confirmed her husband made the call and said the armed man turned out to be someone hunting squirrels&period; He later apologised for the commotion&comma; according to Milano&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department confirmed no-one had been charged in relation to the incident&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a statement&comma; Milano said she and her husband&comma; talent manager David Bugliari&comma; were getting ready to watch a sports game when a neighbour spotted a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;man dressed in all black&comma; walking in the woods between our properties with a gun”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As that is a rare sight in our parts&comma; the neighbour was understandably alarmed and she called the police&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Milano&comma; a 47-year-old mother-of-two&comma; said she received a call &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;alerting us to the potential situation and that officers had been dispatched”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her husband then called back to check when police would be arriving&comma; according to Milano&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She praised the police response and said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;These are exactly the type of situations that police officers are trained for and should be responding to&comma; and we will always support police having the resources they need for appropriate policing actions&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Milano added that she believes &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;equally trained non-police professionals” should respond to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;addiction and mental health crises and non-violent events”&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The actress and activist&comma; whose TV roles include Melrose Place and Insatiable&comma; hit out at &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;rightwing media &amp&semi; trolls” as she shared her statement on Twitter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Apparently&comma; rightwing media &amp&semi; trolls have decided that they should target me because my neighbor called the police after seeing a person dressed in black holding a rifle behind my home where I live with my young children and husband&period; Here is my statement and what really happened&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;RwnSd9XCs0">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;RwnSd9XCs0<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Alyssa Milano &lpar;&commat;Alyssa&lowbar;Milano&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;Alyssa&lowbar;Milano&sol;status&sol;1308509341067087873&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">September 22&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;defund the police” movement calls for reform of police budgets&comma; with funds allocated elsewhere&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The American Civil Liberties Union &lpar;ACLU&rpar; says money could be better spent on services including &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;job training&comma; counselling and violence-prevention programmes”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e25da971062">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; 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