The sound cuts out as she approaches however, she appears to be attempting to vouch for Rodeman.Ī black teen was on his girlfriend’s back porch when a Florida state trooper tased him from PublicFreakout
The officer hits him with yet another blast from the taser.įollowing a brief cut in the surveillance footage, Smyrnios can be seen detaining Rodeman as his girlfriend exits the home via the back door. He tells the writhing teen he’ll “do it again” if he doesn’t put his hands behind his back. The teen screams in pain as Smyrnios approaches him, taser still drawn. As his back and head connect with the solid stone pit, a piece of it snaps off from the force. It appears to hit Rodeman in the side, knocking him backward into a stone fire pit set into the back patio. The officer tells Rodeman to “put your hands behind your back,” to which the teen responds that he “didn’t do nothing.” He attempts to call his girlfriend, presumably so she can vouch for him.Īfter again demanding that the teen put his hands behind his back, the officer fires his taser. A surveillance video captured by the family’s porch camera sees the officer approach with a taser already in hand, pointed at the teen. Sixteen-year-old Jack Rodeman was waiting near the back door when Highway Patrol Trooper George Smyrnios approached him.
Video surveillance reportedly shows a Black teenager getting tased while standing on his girlfriend’s back porch in Pasco County, Florida.
