Police pepper spray 18-year-old in his own home

RALEIGH, N.C. (KGO) -- A North Carolina family is expressing outrage over the treatment of their 18-year-old foster son by police.

"I'm seeing some suspicious person walking around in my neighbor's yard. It was a black kid with, ah, looks like dreadlocks. He walked down beside the house and looked like he may have walked in the house," a neighbor said in a 9-1-1 call while reporting a possible burglary at a home near Raleigh, North Carolina.

The kid with the dreadlocks wasn't a burglar. He's 18-year-old Deshawn Currie, the foster son of the homeowner.

Currie said he was pepper sprayed by officers who refused to believe he lived there, even though he pointed to pictures of his family on the wall.

"I'm feeling comfortable, I had moved into my room and I'm feeling like I'm loved. And then when they come in and then 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," Currie said.

Police say race wasn't a factor, claiming Currie was pepper sprayed only after he became threatening, profane and belligerent.

They say his driver's license didn't match the address.

The family has lived in the house only three months after moving to North Carolina from California.