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. ✋
I’m not falling for that officer.
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
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.
Ain’t just Mississippi. Public toilets are generally infrequent in most of the US… Fast food franchises are frequently the only bathrooms you can use.
It was a joke about entrapment. It wasn’t an endorsement of America’s police.
Oh my I’m surprised.
It’s simple, we just pee on the cop.
Source?
I can tell you for sure that it’s not legal in Germany.
It’s not legal, but the most you get for it is a fine of around 35 euros in most cases. No judges or jail sentence involved.
Don’t have to tell me twice.
Last year I took my daughter to her therapist. She goes after hours. I really had to pee. There was no bathroom in the waiting room and all the other places in the building were closed, so I ran out and peed behind the dumpster. Sometimes you just have to pee.
I peed my pants, does that count?
All the cool guys pee their pants
How does that piece of shit cop sleep at night?
Like a racist baby
Or DA or judge or…
In fear from all those good guys with a gun with are going to protect us from tyrants.
Haha I am kidding. With his battered wife of course on a bed that has been soaked with his drunken urine at least once.
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!
OK that’s fucked up. Is that in all states?
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’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.
We’d have to build a fuckton more prisons
For-profit prisons? Imagine the revenues!
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Build it around mines, the children yearn for the mines.
When a 10 year old can’t pee on a tree, we need a coup.
Hes a child; let him go potty. What the fuck is wrong with the world.
Racism
RACISTS
Never forget that these aren’t monsters. They are flesh and bone and shit humans who fucking bleed.
Wish racists couldn’t breed but that’ll be called eugenics. But they don’t call it eugenics when they put black people in prison where they can’t breed…
Racism isn’t genetic. Stopping racists from breeding is not the answer. Educating their children and exposing them to diversity is.
I’m pasting part of a comment I made a few days ago on a different post:
This is called implicit racism, and it permeates our society to a systemic level. Healthcare can be a good example, and the U.S. criminal justice system is the best example imo.
One thing that really drives home the systemic implicit racism in this country are studies that have people rate black and white men on how strong/large/muscular and threatening they perceive them to be. The black men were perceived to be more threatening and that use of force was more likely to be viewed as justified. Black and white Americans both perceived the black men to be stronger, taller, and more muscular than their equal-sized white counterparts. Source
Another study found that people view black boys as older than they are, and that they are more responsible for their actions than white boys, whose actions were more likely to be excused by the belief of childhood innocence. So our society essentially strips black boys of their perceived childhood innocence. Same Source
Also should definitely be pointed out that Black Americans are incarcerated at a nearly 5 times greater rate than are White Americans. Source
Another study found that people view black boys as older than they are, and that they are more responsible for their actions than white boys, whose actions were more likely to be excused by the belief of childhood innocence.
Tamir Rice right there. When he was murdered, people online were all over the place saying how he was a tall kid etc, as if that matters in any way
Yes this implicit bias is foundational and starts as early as preschool. Here’s a Yale study from 2016 and a short video explainer.
Worth pointing out that, since the first racially biased “study” about crime and race, blacks have been wrongly painted as being “mOrE PrOnE to CrIMe” which has done a lot of damage in further spreading and embedding systemic racism. (Source: The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad)
First off, not a fan of ADL and equating anti-zionism with antisemitism.
Second, just want to call out my home state Arkansas for making it illegal to make mandatory implicit racism training. Like, you aren’t allowed to tell people they’re being racist. Ridiculous.
Third, fuck the ADL.
Well, how else should we punish children for…peeing in public? Should we beat them? No, that’s inhumane. Clearly the right answer is…checks notes… separate them from their families and stick them in a cage.
Only if black
Wow, that’s just shameful to arrest a kid over. How about a conversation about why this isn’t acceptable and what to do in the future. Maybe he was scared to ask his mother (doesn’t mean that fear was rational).
Little guy pissed by his moms car because there were no bathrooms. What else was he supposed to do?
If the
copsracist pigs actually viewed this little boy as equal and human they might have opted to converse.
10 years old. What the fuck. Little man wasn’t attacking people or breaking shit. Insane
I mean I think every little boy that’s been on a long car ride ever has done this. How is this worth of any criminal sanction? Insane.
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Not surprising it played a role.
Tax dollars hard at work.
Yep, Those tax dollars could’ve been used to fund public restrooms instead
Lol.
Wow. And near the gulf coast, too. Is the next step to start arresting people for peeing in the ocean?
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Which means nothing. Ben Carson is black
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What are you trying to communicate, dumb? Your so-called critical thinking skills don’t seem effective.
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For once, yeah, please stop eating them as is customary, and explain your low quality thoughts, if possible. Poor fella.
