http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/08/1335141/-police-pepper-spray-black-teen-because-he-couldn-t-possibly-be-part-of-white-family?detail=email
Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina
Foster parents Ricky and Stacy Tyler left the side entrance door unlocked for 18 year old DeShawn Currie, on Monday afternoon - aware DeShawn was coming home early that day to an empty house. A neighbor spotted the teen entering the home and called 911 to report a break in. Three officers responded in pavlovian fashion, handling the teen as a suspect rather than putting aside racial bias and giving the black kid the benefit of the doubt. After ordering DeShawn to put his hands on the door,
said DeShawn. "I was like, 'For what? This is my house.' I was like, 'Why are y'all in here?'"
the cops pointed to photos of the Tyler's three white children and decided he didn't belong there. DeShawn, justly upset, objected to being treated like a criminal in his own home. Of course, in Copworld, that translates to being threatening and belligerent so that's a pepper spraying to the face.
I can understand and would appreciate my neighbors looking out for my home as well, couple of questions popped in mind immediately, why doesn't he have a key and second why didn't the foster parents let the neighbors know there was a Black kid living there were they ashamed or fearful of reprisal of sorts? either way I think the foster parents were at fault or oblivious to the racial disparaging going on in America which I doubt, if so they would have let neighbors know they had a foster Black kid proudly.
incidentally for a change the cops responded in an appropriate manner, good news in the Black/cop dynamic for a change thank God.
whatever led to him not having a key but living there and nobody knowing he was that responsibility lies with the adults in the house
