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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According to the article...
The cop was going to issue a ticket, then more cops showed up, and were going to charge mama with leaving a child unattended.
I’ll bet Mama got real mouthy, so the kid got arrested.
Nothing like ghetto mama mouth to take a non incident, caused by HER, and turned it into her child getting arrested.
Was his breath minty fresh?
The mother left him out in the car in mid August. The jail probably has an AC
I predict the charge will be dismissed and the arrest record will be expunged, and I will agree with the result if that does happen. Ridiculous charge.
I was just prior to pre-kindergarten age. There were a lot of kids in my neighborhood and a lot of them were boys and I used to play with them.
I remember one of the boys saying I have to pee, and he went behind a big bush next to our apartment building. I was curious and followed him.
Much to my surprise I learned that boys and girls pee differently.
Best post in this thread :-)
Back in 1982 I had surgery to replace my urethra. My urologist took my catheter out & gave me a diuretic shot so I could urinate into a computerized toilet to check flow. I had to drive 50 miles to get home so he wrote me a note in case I had to stop & pee and a law enforcement officer had an issue with it. He was afraid I would have to go on my trip home & he didn’t want me holding it & damaging my graft.
Quantavious. noun. A koala who plays the violin.
I just posted exactly that at Daily Mail. Poor little boy.
I went to the Duane Reade pharmacy on 6th Street in Manhattan, and the young woman behind the counter had a name tag “Latrina”. I burst out laughing and had to make up some excuse that did not involve a reference to a pit toilet.
I used to work with a girl named Lavoris. Did you go to school in NC? haha
Agree. :Poor little boy.
Agreed. Find his mom & admonish him but total overreaction.
LOL. How about John Jacob Jinglheimer Schmit?
If I had to guess, Mom shot her mouth off and escalated the situation.
Or the kid urinated on the cop’s shoes.
Who knows?
“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!”
That happens a lot.
Could of named him Dweezil.
Lol. Thanks for that.
Quantavious has been my generic name for Amish yutes for many years....
Agreed!
I would have saved my ire for the mom who didn’t have the foresight to bring her son into the office with her.
True story...
We used to road trip several times a year when the kids were young. During a long haul home, my youngest had to pee. I told my husband twice to pull over at the next stop but he argued with me. My oldest gave my youngest an empty Gatorade bottle to use, thinking we could cap it off and dispose of it later. We hit a bump, the bottle jolted, his member came out of the bottle, and my baby boy started spray peeing all over (including the back of my husband’s head). He was very young and started crying hysterically, thinking he would be in big trouble.
Talk about instant karma.
The look I gave my husband could have melted steel. “Don’t say a word,” I warned him.
He remained silent the rest of the way home and I got to scrub the urine out of the van. At the time, I was livid. Now, we laugh about it.
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