Police Accuse Black Teen Of Burglarizing His Own Home

North Carolina high school student DeShawn Currie was accused of burglarizing his own home and pepper-sprayed. Apparently a neighbor mistook Currie for an intruder and called the police to the England Avenue home in Fuquay-Varina. Currie says, “They was like, ‘Put your hands on the door.  was like, ‘For what? This is my house.’ I was like, ‘Why are y’all in here?’” DeShawn has been a foster child of Ricky and Stacy Tyler for about a year and they moved with Currie and their three biological kids to Fuquay-Varina in July. Currie is Black. His foster family is White. See the issue here?

Stacy left the side door of their home unlocked for DeShawn as he was coming home early from school that day. Once the neighbor saw him walk in, they called the police to report a break-in because it was the neighborly thing to do. Maybe if those overprotective neighbors would have introduced themselves to the Tyler family, they would have been aware that DeShawn was indeed part of the family.

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