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.
how can you punish people for fulfilling a basic bodily need if there’s no proper place to do it
If their basic bodily need spreads disease you’re turning a small problem that affects one person into a large problem that affects many.
how about we give them a place to shit then
I have no problem with that. I just dont think that place should be the street.
I just don’t think we should punish people if they had no other option