Judge sentences Black child, 10, to three months of probation for peeing in public

10-year-old Mississippi boy sentenced to probation for urinating in public

A 10-year-old boy in Mississippi has been put on probation and ordered to write a book report after being arrested in August for urinating in public.The child was urinating behind his mother’s vehicle in a parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., while the mother was visiting a lawyer’s office Aug. 10, according to WAPT in Jackson, Miss. Senatobia police officers saw the child urinating and arrested him, placing him in a squad car and taking him to the …

10-year-old arrested for urinating in public placed on probation and asked to write about Kobe Bryant - Face2Face Africa

A 10-year-old black boy from Mississippi, Quantavious Eason, has been placed on probation and instructed to write a two-page book report on late NBA legend Kobe Bryant after being arrested for urinating in public. Eason is required to check in with a probation officer monthly for three months. But the third-grader’s attorney Carlos Moore, who was shocked that prosecutors gave priority to the case, said that the child’s race may have influenced t…

Mississippi 10-year-old sentenced for urinating in public

A 10-year-old arrested for urinating in a public parking lot has been sentenced to three months’ probation.

'It’s just asinine': 10-year-old boy sentenced to 3 months’ probation for urinating in parking lot

In Mississippi, Tate County Youth Court Judge Rusty Harlow has given a ten-year-old boy an unusual sentence for urinating in a parking lot: the child, as part of a plea deal, will serve three months of probation — and must write a two-page book on the late basketball star Kobe Bryant, according to the Associated Press.Prosecutors charged the boy, who is Black, with being "in need of supervision," AP reports, but threatened to upgrade the charge …

A 10-Year-Old Mississippi Boy Was Arrested for Urinating in Public. His Lawyer Says Race Played a Role

“He would not have been arrested, prosecuted or sentenced if he was any other color, race, besides Black," the boy's lawyer said.

Anger over sentencing of boy, 10, for urinating in Mississippi car park

A lawyer for Quantavious Eason's family says the boy "would not have been arrested, prosecuted or sentenced if he was any other colour, race, besides black".