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.
Raise your hand if you have ever peed in a public area. ✋
Even If it was I would take a piss on your officer.
God America is weird, you realize in most European countries if you are caught pissing in the street the police will:
1 shout to try and scare you and then tell you to fuck off
2 nothing else unless you have a private beef with that specific cop
3 Scandinavian countries are their own thing, but Scandinavians probably wouldn’t piss in the street lol
We realize that, but in America you become a police officer for one of two reasons: you actually believe they are the good guys (lmao) or you want to abuse power over people and fuck around in a fast car.
I’m sure you can guess who 90% of the applicants are.
My guess is Scandinavians also find ready access to public urinals. In Mississippi this would be a wholly unthinkable expenditure of govt tax funds which are already allocated to a for-profit prison, probably. Mississippi is a third-world state.
It was a joke about entrapment. It wasn’t an endorsement of America’s police.
Here’s an idea, blanket ban on arresting kids unless they’re creating an immediate danger to others.
Your idea is better. I would have suggested arresting white kids at the same rate as black kids in solidarity with the all lives matter movement.
Even then I wouldn’t ever term it “arrest” officially. “Detain” and then have a child welfare officer present 100% of the time until the parents can be found. The idea that cops would ever need to arrest a 10yo speaks to their utter ineptitude and malice. If you can’t handle a literal child without resorting to violence and incarceration then you have no skills.
How does that piece of shit cop sleep at night?
When a 10 year old can’t pee on a tree, we need a coup.
Even if this were a grown man… how is peeing in public a jail sentence or probation?? Here you just get a fine. Or am I too european to understand?
Not only that put if you do it as an adult you will be put on the sexual offenders list for life. Yay America!
Technically it can happen. Usually is doesn’t. Peeing in public is technically indecent exposure if you are seen (which someone has to see you to catch you anyways). Indecent exposure is considered a sexual offence and can be tried as such.
But from what I’ve seen in my area of the US if you get caught pissing in public you will just get a fine unless you are a frequent repeat offender or there is some extenuating curcumstance like doing it in full view of other people. It’s one of those things where technically it can get you labeled as a sex offender but it rarely actually does. Of course we have plenty of corrupt judges and that decision lies solely with them so it is always a possibility.
European here. Public urination is illegal and a friend of mine was nearly charged for peeing on the side of the road on a country lane at the woods when we were kids (edit: around 16).
This whole thing is crazy though. 10 year olds need to pee.
Here in Germany it is illegal and you can get fined (no jailtime, as long as you dont try to show your dick to everyone).
But I have never heard of anyone getting fined for it, but I only know people who pee in bushes and shit, no one that is so trashy that they pee on buildings and stuff, because I would imagine that those cases are prosecuted much more stringently.
If you stop at any reststop at a highway or country road its also not very unlikely to see someone peeing into some bushes.
