Parents of a black teenager in North Carolina are outraged after police mistook their 18-year-old son for a burglar and pepper-sprayed him inside of their home.

DeShawn Currie has been living with his white foster parents Ricky and Stacy Tyler for about a year. The family recently moved to a neighborhood in Fuquay-Varina in July. However, after Currie walked home from school Monday afternoon, a neighbor mistook him for a burglar and called 911.

Police arrived on the scene thinking that there was a burglary in progess with their guns drawn and told Currie, who was dressed in only a tank top and shorts, to put his hands up.

"They was like, 'Put your hands on the door,'" Currie told WTVD. "I was like, 'For what? This is my house.' I was like, 'Why are y'all in here?'"

Currie claims that he became angry when one officer assumed that the pictures on the wall of his white family were evidence that he didn't belong in the house.

"That really made me mad," said the high school student.

According to cops, the teen became "threatening" and "belligerent" and they pepper-sprayed him to keep him calm, reports the Huffington Post.

Eventually, Stacy arrived home and cleared up the confusion with the officers as EMS was treating Currie.

Afterward, the foster parents said they were very upset by the incident.

"He's my baby boy just as much as my other three children are," said 29-year-old Stacy Tyler said. "My 5-year-old last night, she looked at me and said, 'Mama I don't understand why they hated our brother, and they had to come in and hurt him.'"

"Everything that we've worked so hard for in the past years was stripped away yesterday in just a matter of moments," added 30-year-old Ricky Tyler.

"That was the part that broke my heart, knowing all the work that my husband and I have put into rebuilding his life and giving him a good and normal teenage life," said the stay-at-home mom, according to the Assoicated Press. "You don't get in foster care and not have scars, and he's been in foster care a very long time."

No charges have been filed.

Currie and the Tylers met with the Fuquay-Varina Police Department's Capt. Bob Adams the following day.

The department also released a statement on Monday saying that the family's neighborhood has recently been plagued by criminal activity.