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A biracial 16-year-old boy in Fort Myers, Florida was waiting for his girlfriend to open the back door of her home Monday afternoon, texting on his phone, when a Florida state trooper tased him, in the latest episode of questionable use of force by police, CBS News reports. 

Jack Rodeman fell backwards after being tased by the officer, falling onto a firepit on the patio hard enough to dislodge at least one of the stones.  A video taken by a security camera shows the officer telling Jack to put his hands behind his back, although both of Jack’s hands are in view, texting his girlfriend.

Jack responds, “I didn’t do nothin’,” at which point the officer tases the teen.  The officer shocks the teen repeatedly as his girlfriend exits the house and tells the officer Jack is her boyfriend and was allowed on the property.

The officer claimed that Jack acted suspiciously when he saw the officer’s cruiser driving down the street and “dashed” between bushes.  The officer found this suspicious enough to pursue Jack, who was found standing on the back patio of his girlfriend’s house.

“I think something should have been done, he shouldn’t have done that to my kid,” Kristina said. “His girlfriend is traumatized, her mother is traumatized and I am traumatized.”

Jack, who was on probation, will spend at least 21 days in juvenile detention facility for resisting arrest and possessing marijuana.