The lawyer said he’s baffled that prosecutors pursued the case and that a youth judge oversaw a sentence that included probation and requiring the child to write a report about Kobe Bryant.
A 10-year-old Black child in Mississippi who urinated in public in August was sentenced Tuesday in youth court to three months’ probation, a decision the child’s attorney says was influenced by race.
Quantavious Eason, who is in the third grade, was arrested by Senatobia police Aug. 10 after a police officer saw him relieving himself outside next to his mom’s car when the woman was inside an attorney’s office, according to family attorney Carlos Moore.
Given the circumstances, any child would have done the same thing, Moore said. He noted there was no public restroom at the attorney’s office.
That case should have been tossed & the cop reprimanded & demoted.
And even before that, the kid should not have been arrested in the first place. That’s just insane to think that a cop can actually arrest a small child at all.
That poor kid will remember this for the rest of his life and never trust police (if he ever did anyway)
Sadly, he shouldn’t. Especially since he is black. But really none of us should. They’ve done everything you can imagine to earn our suspicion and loathing.
It’s downright fucking sickening to imagine a little boy getting ducking arrested. JFC.
I’ve said this before it doesn’t matter what color your skin is, cops are not on “your side”
It never should have been sent to a prosector. Wild that it made it all the way to a judge. Wild.
Even wilder that the judge didn’t dismiss it out of hand.