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A ten-year-old Mississippi boy who was arrested for public urination has been sentenced to a few months probation, in a call that legal professionals say was influenced by his race.
Quantavious Eason was handcuffed and “caged” after an officer noticed him urinating in a car parking zone close to an lawyer’s workplace within the small city of Senatobia on 10 August, in response to his mom.
The boy was locked in a cell for between 45 minutes and an hour, she mentioned.
On Tuesday, a youth court docket handed down the sentence to the teenager, requiring him and his mom – LaTonya Eason – to verify in with a decide as soon as a month. He can even be required to write down a two-page essay about his favorite basketball participant, Kobe Bryant.
Carlos Moore, the Eason household’s lawyer, mentioned the arrest and subsequent sentence was “unreasonable”.
A photograph Ms Eason posted to her Fb web page exhibits a solemn Quantavious sitting at the back of a cop automotive
(Latonya Eason/Fb)
“He didn’t plead responsible to something, he was not discovered responsible of something however it’s an off-the-cuff adjustment probation,” Mr Moore informed NBC.
“Folks he ought to belief to guard and serve, he doesn’t really feel that they handled him pretty and that he would get a good shake in life by way of the police or the justice system.
“I believe it’s unreasonable {that a} 10-year-old could be arrested for doing one thing I did as a toddler from Mississippi, and I’m a profitable lawyer.
“So it’s not legal and he ought to by no means have been involved with the juvenile justice system for merely urinating discreetly.”
Mr Moore added that race could have performed a job in Quantavious’ harsh sentence. “Black boys are demonised or criminalised from a younger age,” he mentioned.
“Had he been slightly white boy urinating discreetly he would by no means have been arrested.”
LaTonya Eason together with her son Quantavious Eason
(Carlos Moore / Fb)
Mr Moore mentioned the household supposed to take the case to “the best heights” of the legal justice system and would file in federal court docket, including: “they will pay this household for what they’ve endured.”
Ms Eason beforehand known as for a number of officers from the Senatobia Police Division to be fired over the incident, after which Quantavious was charged with “baby in want of supervision”.
“My son didn’t deserve that. No one’s child deserves that,” Ms Eason mentioned throughout a earlier information convention. “I might really feel the identical means if that was any person else’s baby.”
In an announcement in August, Senatobia Police Division chief Richard Chandler mentioned that it was “an error in judgment” to take the kid into custody when his mom was current.
He mentioned one of many 5 officers concerned within the incident was not working on the division.
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