The family of a 10-year-old Black boy who was arrested and placed in a cell for relieving himself in a parking lot say they will file a federal civil rights lawsuit against a Mississippi city unless police officers involved in the detention are fired.
Quantavious Eason was detained and taken to a police station in Senatobia after an officer spotted him urinating behind a car outside a law office last month while his mother was inside getting advice on a housing issue.
LaToya Eason questioned if her son’s race influenced officers’ decision to take him away in a police car and place him in a cell for almost an hour. “Would you have put a white child in a cage? If it had been a white child, he probably wouldn’t have even been stopped,” she told a news conference this week.
I agree, I could get behind deploying public restrooms. I cannot get behind legalizing public urination/defecation.
It’s the same thing. Pretty much nobody poops or pees in public if there’s a restroom available, and if there’s a restroom available, by all means ticket and fine anyone who’s publicly pooping and peeing.
The kid in this story did. He was in the parking lot of a law office, while his mother was inside talking to her lawyer, so the place was clearly open.
Well, were the cops right to arrest him then?
I agree with the mom, they wouldn’t have arrested a white kid. But unequal application of a law doesn’t mean we should throw out the law it means we should apply it equally.
Well, I guess we’ll disagree then. “Arrest all children who pee outdoors” is not in my top 100,000,000 bright ideas for a better America.
Best of luck with bright idea 100,000,001, “turn our streets and sidewalks into rivers of piss”.