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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.

  • thecrotch
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    1 year ago

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

    • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 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.

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        1 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.

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            1 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.

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              1 year ago

              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.

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                1 year ago

                Best of luck with bright idea 100,000,001, “turn our streets and sidewalks into rivers of piss”.