‘Black Boys Are Demonized’: Attorney for 10-Year-Old Arrested for Urinating In Public Says He Wouldn’t Have Been Punished The Same If He Was Another Race
The attorney for the 10-year-old Black boy who was charged after urinating in public believes that race played a factor in his sentence. Quantavious Eason was taken into police custody by Senatobia, Mississippi, officers for urinating behind his mother’s car in a parking lot in early August. His mother, Latonya, was visiting her lawyer at the time,…