A Florida state trooper has sparked outrage after a disturbing video shows him attacking a teenager as he waited outside his girlfriend’s house.
According to CBS, 16-year-old Jack Rodeman was standing on the back porch of his girlfriend’s home. He started to text her that he was outside so she could let him in.
“Put your hands behind your head!” the trooper can be heard yelling.
“I didn’t do nothing…” the teen said.
That’s when the cop tased him, causing the boy to fall back, hitting his head so hard on a brick. The officer then put him in handcuffs and took him to jail, where he was held for 21 days.
The entire incident was caught on the family’s surveillance camera.
“I mean my son was just standing there on his phone,” Rodeman’s mother explained. There was no threat to that officer.”
CBS 12 revealed that the official police report said that the trooper believed he was a “suspicious person” because he was dressed in black. It also said that when he saw the police car he “darted” and hid. It’s unclear if the “darting” was just to walk to his girlfriend’s back porch.
The police officer said he was forced to tase the teen because he wouldn’t put his hands behind his back. The video below shows otherwise.
The video also shows the teen’s girlfriend coming outside where she presumably told the police officer that the kid was her boyfriend. She walks over to them both while her boyfriend is handcuffed.
The teenager had never committed a crime and there’s no explanation from the police for why he was kept in jail for 21 days.
Watch the full report and see the shocking video below:
