Eye Recommend --- Black Teen Pepper-Sprayed by Cops After Entering His White Foster Parents' Home

BLACK TEEN PEPPER-SPRAYED BY COPS AFTER ENTERING HIS WHITE FOSTER PARENTS' HOME, by Nicole Flatow --
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/10/08/3577327/black-teen-pepper-sprayed-by-cops-for-entering-his-white-foster-parents-home/ 

This brought tears to my eyes.

"Eighteen-year-old DeShawn Currie was walking into his foster parents' unlocked side door after school Monday afternoon, when a neighbor called 911 to report what they perceived to be a burglary on the residential block in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina.  When cops arrived, they walked inside the house and ordered Currie to put his hands up, as Currie, confused, questioned what he had done wrong.  Cops responded by pointing to a picture on the wall that showed several white children together, implying that Currie, black, did not belong.

By the time Currie's foster mother Stacy Tyler came home, EMTs were treating Currie in the driveway for having been pepper sprayed in the face by the offices, WTVD reports.  Police said in a statement they pepper-sprayed Currie because he would not follow orders."

Another article reported that officers said Currie did show them an I.D., but that it had a different address on it.  The Tylers said their family including Mr. Currie had just moved into this house in July.

Stacey and Ricky Tyler had been fostering Currie for about a year, and have done all they can to show Currie that he is just as much a member of their family as the other three children.

'Everything that we've worked so hard for in the past year was stripped away yesterday in just a matter of moments,' Ricky Tyler told WTVD."

The kid was IN HIS OWN HOME!   After they saw his I.D., did they let him explain that he had moved in with his foster family only a few months ago or just assume that a kid like him didn't belong?  Did they bother to ask for a phone number of one of his foster parents who could confirm that he did, indeed, live there?  Or did these officers simply listen to some bigoted neighbor who saw "black" and thought "thief" and just barge in looking for a confrontation? 

I suppose we should be grateful they didn't decide to just shoot him, which demonstrates how far we still have to go in this country.