An officer in Mississippi’s Senatobia police department was reportedly fired after taking a 10-year-old boy into custody after peeing behind his mother’s car.
As we previously reported last Thursday, the boys mother, Latonya Eason stopped by an attorney’s office for legal advice and her visit wasn’t even 10 minutes but then suddenly an officer walked in and told her that he caught her son, Quantavious Eason, urinating behind her car. “I was like, ‘Son, why did you do that?’ He said, ‘Mom, my sister said they ain’t got a bathroom in there.’ I was like, ‘Well, you knew better. You should have came and asked me if they had a restroom,’” Eason said. She then says the officer was going to give him a warning, but that’s when more cops showed up to the scene and that’s when things took a left turn. “Another officer came over there and was like, ‘Your son gotta get out of the car. He gotta be arrested because he can’t do that,” Eason said. “I started crying a little bit. They took me down there and got me out of the truck. I didn’t know what was happening,” Quantavious said. “I get scared and start shaking and thinking I’m going to jail.” Quantavious was taken to the police station, where he says he was held in a jail cell.
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The Senatobia Police Chief Richard Chandler told Fox13 that “the officer did not observe a parent on the scene during the initial contact.” He said that the officers transported the child to the police station where the child was released to his mother. He called the incident “an error in judgment” to relocate the child, as Ms Eason actually was nearby. “Mistakes like this are a reminder in this profession as to the continual need for training and refreshers on the various topics that we encounter each day,” he said.
His mother believes the officers went overboard in their response. “I’m just speechless right now because for one, I can’t believe it happened. Why would you arrest a 10-year-old kid?” Eason said. The 10 year old was then allegedly charged with “child in need of services” and then was released to his mother. “That could really traumatize my baby. My baby could get to the point where he don’t wanna have an encounter with police – period,” she said.
The police chief issued a statement, saying the officer did not see a parent on the scene during the initial contact with the 10-year-old. The mother was found at a nearby business a short time later and told her son was going to get a youth court referral. He went on to say taking the boy to the police station was a mistake. “Under these circumstances, it was an error in judgement for us to transport the child to the police station since the mother was present at that time as a reasonable alternative,” he s
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