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    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    -11 year ago

    Nudity aside, do you want to live in a place where people can piss on the sidewalk whenever they want? Sounds pretty awful.

    That being said, a white 10 year old would have gotten a scolding not an arrest

    • @surewhynotlem
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      101 year ago

      do you want to live in a place where people can piss on the sidewalk whenever they want?

      That’s why we have fines and warnings. Not arrests.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I don’t disagree. My issue is with framing this as “hurr durr Americans are puritanical”. There’s more to it than that. I dont have a problem with nudity. I also don’t want to walk through puddles of piss.

        • @Nurse_Robot
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          11 year ago

          But you’re challenging the idea of giving a 10 year old a fine instead of arresting them. You’re supporting the idea of arresting a child who relieved themselves behind a car in a parking lot, intentional or not. You might want to check your pride / ego over defending your countries reputation.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            No I’m not. I’m challenging the idea that skittishness about nudity is the issue here rather than public health. You want to walk around with your dick out, fine, feel free. Don’t piss where I’m walking.

    • @electrogamerman
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      41 year ago

      Do you think people are pissing everywhere on the street? We are talking about emergencies, behind a tree, hidden from everyone.

    • Doug HollandOP
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      21 year ago

      I call for complete freedom of toilets. No tickets, no scolding, no penalties at all for anyone peeing and pooping in public, unless there’s a 24/7 public restroom within, say, 5 minutes walk.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I don’t know if you’ve thought about the public health implications of people shitting in the streets but as a man who doesn’t enjoy contracting hepatitis and cholera I disagree.

        • @redempt
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          41 year ago

          how can you punish people for fulfilling a basic bodily need if there’s no proper place to do it

          • @[email protected]
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            -11 year ago

            If their basic bodily need spreads disease you’re turning a small problem that affects one person into a large problem that affects many.

            • @redempt
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              41 year ago

              how about we give them a place to shit then

                • @redempt
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                  21 year ago

                  I just don’t think we should punish people if they had no other option

        • Doug HollandOP
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          21 year ago

          Where I live, we have 25,000 homeless people and exactly zero 24/7 public restrooms, so many neighborhoods do reek of urine and there’s poop in every bush.

          If you want people not peeing on the sidewalk and not pooping in the bushes, gotta give them someplace else to pee and poop.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            I agree, I could get behind deploying public restrooms. I cannot get behind legalizing public urination/defecation.

            • Doug HollandOP
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              11 year ago

              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.

              • @[email protected]
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                -11 year ago

                Pretty much nobody poops or pees in public if there’s a restroom available

                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.

                • Doug HollandOP
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                  01 year ago

                  Well, were the cops right to arrest him then?

                  • @[email protected]
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                    01 year ago

                    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.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          You act like people would want to regularly relieve themselves in public if they were allowed to. Spoiler alert: they don’t. It’s usually last resort, in which case I prefer that to people having to pee/shit themselves in fear of a fine or being arrested.

          • @[email protected]
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            1 year ago

            And I prefer not contracting hepatitis from walking through human feces.

            Let me guess, you’re an anti-masker aren’t you?

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              Well good news then, because you won’t. People generally don’t want to defecate in public, meaning that even if there’s no punishment for it, it won’t suddenly start happening left and right. Your chances of encountering human poop won’t significantly increase.

              Let me guess, you’re an anti-masker aren’t you?

              Quite the opposite, I’m still wearing masks when shopping or on public transit, even when everyone else in my area seems to have stopped caring.