Posted on 08/17/2023 3:24:40 PM PDT by Morgana
A 10-year-old African-American child was reduced to tears last week after he was arrested and hauled off to jail for urinating behind his mother's car.
Cops in Senatobia, a Mississippi town set just south of Memphis, have since apologized for the incident - with the local sheriff now calling the arresting officer's actions an 'error in judgement.'
The child's mother, Latonya Eason, said the August 10 arrest could have been easily avoided and that the responding officer went overboard by carting son Quantavious off to jail.
She said she was visiting her attorney's office when her son committed the public indecency infraction - which usually only warrants a ticket - and was inside when the unnamed cop came marching in to tell her what her son had done.
The furious mom said the officer was at first going to let the child off with a warning, but had a change of heart once other cops came on the scene. A lieutenant allegedly demanded cops take him in to be hit with a statute for being left unattended.
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Eason spoke about the incident this week with FOX 13 Memphis, remembering how within 10 minutes of walking into her attorney’s office for legal advice, the first officer on the scene interrupted the meeting to tell her what her son had done.
'I was like, "Son, why did you do that?"' she recalled, after being brought out to the facility's parking lot at 216 S Ward Street, where her son had been waiting.
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Law enforcement is only as good as the government behind it. The government of the town of Senatobia must be awful.
The mother should be arrested for naming her son Quantavious…
He should have been taught to ask to use the washroom. Not that he should have been arresyed over this.
You know there is more to this story.
The boy’s name is Quantavious, he was arrested for public urination. Wanna bet he was making a public display of it.
America was founded on peeing in public
I’d take that bet.
I know there is more to this story. Quantavious said he was “behind his mom’s car” yet a policeman could see him. Wanna be he was not trying to hide it at all?
Quantavarious? What is wrong with people?
“Quantavious”
Obviously a descendant of some great Roman notable.
I went to high school with a black kid named Lavoris.
The media will make it racial,, or a police over reaction ( which it may have been), but otherwise it’s a fine example of how America is going to hell- there is an excuse and justification for every small crime and even many big ones ones
Society simply accepts such behavior now. It’s why America’s cities are often s*****oles
I remember when black kids were named “Listerine”
I could be wrong, but looking at the picture of the kid, he doesn’t look like the kind who would make a public display of this...
With names like Latonya and Quantavious, I suspect this family has a lot of experience with jails already.
I don’t see it as a police over reaction if the officer could see him doing it. If the Officer could see him then anyone could see him. He was not trying to hide what he was doing. Granted he is only 10 but it shows he has issues.
His name is Quantavious that should tell you all you need to know.
Some more names....Oranjelo and Lemonjelo...
It is so sad. I remember this subject of black names coming up on here a long time ago and I forget what the black kids name was but the FReeper said he told the kid he could change his name for like $100 at a city clerks office.
The kid did that and changed his name to Robert Wilson saying it was the whitest name he could think of. The kid’s career took off after that!
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