Race played role in sentencing of Black child, 10, for urinating in public, lawyer says
Race played role in sentencing of Black child, 10, for urinating in public, lawyer says
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.
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. ✋
169I'm not falling for that officer.
88Even 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
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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.
19I peed my pants, does that count?
5All the cool guys pee their pants
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Here's an idea, blanket ban on arresting kids unless they're creating an immediate danger to others.
92Even 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.
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How does that piece of shit cop sleep at night?
92Like a racist baby
30Or DA or judge or...
20In 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.
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When a 10 year old can't pee on a tree, we need a coup.
83Even 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?
80European 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.
23Here 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.
2There's also a big difference between doing it on a street and doing it in the country road. The main difference being you're not peeing on concrete.
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Dogs can pee wherever they want... No one gets arrested for dog pee
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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
72Another 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
25Yes this implicit bias is foundational and starts as early as preschool. Here's a Yale study from 2016 and a short video explainer.
19Worth 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)
13First 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.
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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.
51Only if black
23I mean it's the American Way. We get them used to the cage when they're young first and then when we throw them back in there later on
to be an actual slave for corporationsfor rehabilitation they are comfortable with it!22
That case should have been tossed & the cop reprimanded & demoted.
46And 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)
34It 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.
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The thing that sticks out to me, that no one seems to be talking about, is this:
"...this week oversaw a sentence that included probation and requiring Quantavious to write a two-page report about Kobe Bryant."
He's charged with urinating outside. Already stupid and ridiculous. But then the judge assigns homework, which... What? And then it's about Kobe Bryant which has what to do with urinating outside? Why Kobe Bryant?? Is there a public urination charge in his past I don't know about? Did the judge ask "who's your favorite person?" and assign homework based on that?
It's a dumb thing to be concerned about, but it's somehow even weirder to me than the rest of it.
43Read in white news lady voice:
Quantavious Eason, the urban youth convicted in the case, is alleged by police to have yelled "I'm the Kobe Bryant of public urination" while urinating in front of the officers near his mother's car.
Judge Smith, who oversaw the case, assigned Quantavious probabtion, and ordered him to write a two-page essay on Kobe Bryant, asking the boy:
court recording plays
Judge: WHAT is WRONG with you?
Quantavious: N-nothin I just really needed to pee...
Judge: Are you aware of Kobe Bryant's dominance in the sport of basketball?
Quantavious: Ummm... Y-yes sir he's the g-goat
Judge: Do you really think your pitiful little pee pee you did by your momma's car puts you in the same league as Kobe? May he rest in peace...
Court: murmurs
Judge: Young man, you need to reflect on what you've done and take that stank off Kobe's name.
Quantavious: But I didn't even s-say that stuff though...
Judge: Is that back-talk? Alright. Probabtion. slams gavel
Quantavious: Sir I'm 10 years old...
17I just think the article doesn't give enough detail. At the same time, I also don't think it matters really what the person writes about as long as it's some sort of topic that has to do with being a good community member.
- Perhaps the urge is to make the person write about why they shouldn't do the crime again (not that this should have been a criminal matter), and the instinct is to make the person feel ashamed about their antisocial behavior. Better to build a relationship to a positive role model in the community than to label the person as shameful, imo.
5It's all bullshit fake news. Don't take it seriously.
-13[citation needed]
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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).
33Not only shameful, but wasteful. An entire court room full of people had to get paid to come to this ruling.
If I were the judge I’d have taken that money out of the cop’s pay and fined him for wasting the court’s time.
37Hint: the judge is part of the problem for sentencing him at all.
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Little guy pissed by his moms car because there were no bathrooms. What else was he supposed to do?
17If the
copsracist pigs actually viewed this little boy as equal and human they might have opted to converse.8
10 years old. What the fuck. Little man wasn’t attacking people or breaking shit. Insane
20I 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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The mom was with the lawyers and they didn't give them access to a bathroom??? Were they hoping this to happen?
19I'd say the kid was too shy to go in and ask tbh, especially if his mum was not in the waiting area. Parent of many and I could totally see that happening.
The whole thing is batshit crazy.
21Shocked they didn't go after mom for child negligence or worse. I'm afraid to give them ideas. So sad.
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LEGALIZE PISS
16Cheesing is not a crime.
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Not surprising it played a role.
12Tax dollars hard at work.
7Yep, Those tax dollars could've been used to fund public restrooms instead
2Lol.
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Wow. And near the gulf coast, too. Is the next step to start arresting people for peeing in the ocean?
0Quantavious? Seriously, some parents should lose their rights to name their kids
-8^ This guy's kids names, Braydan, Graydan, Jaydan, and Haydan
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