Video shows Florida trooper using stun gun on teenager

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Source: NBC News

A state trooper in Florida profiled and then used excessive force when he fired a stun gun at a teenager who was in his girlfriend’s backyard waiting to see her, the boy's mother said Wednesday.

Kristina Rodeman's son, Jack, 16, who she said is biracial, was in his girlfriend’s backyard in Fort Myers on June 16 when a Florida Highway Patrol trooper is seen on private video asking the teenager to put his hands behind his back.

When Jack ignores the order, the trooper tases him, and the boy falls and hits his head and back against a fire pit.

“He was profiled because he is Black in black clothes. There is no doubt in my mind,” Rodeman said. “He wasn’t doing anything wrong. He literally was just walking down the street going to his girlfriend’s.”



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1. I thought Florida State Troopers were supposed to patrol the highways, and not the city streets?

Where I live you only see them pull over people for speeding on I95 or the Turnpike. It's usually the sheriff or the city police that patrol the neighborhood streets. In any case that video is just awful and I hope the young man is going to be OK.