Episode 43 - The Worst Story of 2023 That You Never Heard

In this episode, we discuss the August 10, 2023 case where Quantavious Eason, a 10-year-old Black boy from Senatobia, Mississippi, was arrested after he urinated behind his mother’s car while she was inside a local business.

Four Senatobia police officers arrested the third grader when they saw him urinating in a public parking lot beside his mother’s car. Despite his mother being present after the incident, the officers put the 10-year-old in the back of their squad car and booked him into a cell before releasing him.
Paige Williams, the Tate County Youth Court prosecutor, took the case and cited Quantavious as a “child in need of services.” According to Quantavious’s attorney, Williams threatened to upgrade the citation to “disorderly conduct” if the family pushed for a trial.

Where are the adults in the room? If this isn’t the biggest waste of tax dollars and a serious abuse of power, I don’t know what it is!

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Episode Sources:
Equal Justice Initiative, “Mississippi Jails and Prosecutes 10-Year-Old Black Child for Peeing Outside.” eji.org, 21 December 2023. https://eji.org/news/mississippi-jails-and-prosecutes-10-year-old-black-child-for-peeing-outside/

Harrison, Heather, “Punishment Dropped For Black 10-Year-Old Who Peed in Public.” mississippifreepress.org, 5 February 2024, https://www.mississippifreepress.org/39630/punishment-dropped-for-black-10-year-old-who-peed-in-public#:~:text=Senatobia%20police%20officers%20arrested%20the,him%20in%20a%20jail%20cell.