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Seventeen-year-old DeShawn Currie got a real taste of racial inequality when he was pepper-sprayed by police in his own home.

Currie, who is Black is a foster child of Ricky and Stacy Tyler, a white suburban family who reside in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina. The high school student had already cleared with his foster parents that he would be arriving home from school early to an unlocked door. Upon arrival, a neighbor spotted him entering the home and immediately called police, describing him as a burglar.

When the authorities arrived, they confronted a puzzled DeShawn who grew irate when they accused him of intruding on the property. After pointing to the pictures on the mantle that contained the Tyler’s biological children, they pepper-sprayed the teen after the argument escalated.

Stacy immediately headed home to clear up the confusion with the officers, who had sent an EMS squad to check on his eyes. DeShawn told WDTV that despite the obvious racial profiling, he still feels at home with the Tyler’s.

“I had moved into my room, and I’m feeling like I’m loved,” he said. “And then when they come in and they just profile me and say that I’m not who I am. And that I do not stay here because there was white kids on the wall, that really made me mad.”

According to Stacy, the couple’s five-year-old daughter asked why her “brother” was treated bad by the police. It was reported that they also had a meeting with the police chief.

Peep photos of the racially profiled “crime scene” in the gallery below. DeShawn seems like a good kid. Hopefully this will never happen again.

Photos: WDTV

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