I'm not falling for that officer.

Last year I took my daughter to her therapist. She goes after hours. I really had to pee. There was no bathroom in the waiting room and all the other places in the building were closed, so I ran out and peed behind the dumpster. Sometimes you just have to pee.

Like a racist baby

He faps himself to sleep thinking of the black kid he arrested.

Or DA or judge or...

In fear from all those good guys with a gun with are going to protect us from tyrants.

Haha I am kidding. With his battered wife of course on a bed that has been soaked with his drunken urine at least once.

Your idea is better. I would have suggested arresting white kids at the same rate as black kids in solidarity with the all lives matter movement.

Even then I wouldn't ever term it "arrest" officially. "Detain" and then have a child welfare officer present 100% of the time until the parents can be found. The idea that cops would ever need to arrest a 10yo speaks to their utter ineptitude and malice. If you can't handle a literal child without resorting to violence and incarceration then you have no skills.

Not only that put if you do it as an adult you will be put on the sexual offenders list for life. Yay America!

European here. Public urination is illegal and a friend of mine was nearly charged for peeing on the side of the road on a country lane at the woods when we were kids (edit: around 16).

This whole thing is crazy though. 10 year olds need to pee.

Racism

Another study found that people view black boys as older than they are, and that they are more responsible for their actions than white boys, whose actions were more likely to be excused by the belief of childhood innocence.

Tamir Rice right there. When he was murdered, people online were all over the place saying how he was a tall kid etc, as if that matters in any way

Yes this implicit bias is foundational and starts as early as preschool. Here's a Yale study from 2016 and a short video explainer.

https://news.yale.edu/2016/09/27/implicit-bias-may-explain-high-preschool-expulsion-rates-black-children

https://youtu.be/lJlIeGep_TM?si=BnzyhcZkIzrn5d6O

Read in white news lady voice:

Quantavious Eason, the urban youth convicted in the case, is alleged by police to have yelled "I'm the Kobe Bryant of public urination" while urinating in front of the officers near his mother's car.

Judge Smith, who oversaw the case, assigned Quantavious probabtion, and ordered him to write a two-page essay on Kobe Bryant, asking the boy:

court recording plays

Judge: WHAT is WRONG with you?

Quantavious: ^N-nothin^ ^I^ ^just^ ^really^ ^needed^ ^to^ ^pee...^

Judge: Are you aware of Kobe Bryant's dominance in the sport of basketball?

Quantavious: ^Ummm...^ ^Y-yes^ ^sir^ ^he's^ ^the^ ^g-goat^

Judge: Do you really think your pitiful little pee pee you did by your momma's car puts you in the same league as Kobe? May he rest in peace...

Court: murmurs

Judge: Young man, you need to reflect on what you've done and take that stank off Kobe's name.

Quantavious: ^But^ ^I^ ^didn't^ ^even^ ^s-say^ ^that^ ^stuff^ ^though...^

Judge: Is that back-talk? Alright. Probabtion. slams gavel

Quantavious: ^Sir^ ^I'm^ ^10^ ^years^ ^old...^

Only if black

I mean it's the American Way. We get them used to the cage when they're young first and then when we throw them back in there later on ~~to be an actual slave for corporations~~ for rehabilitation they are comfortable with it!

And even before that, the kid should not have been arrested in the first place. That's just insane to think that a cop can actually arrest a small child at all.

That poor kid will remember this for the rest of his life and never trust police (if he ever did anyway)

Not only shameful, but wasteful. An entire court room full of people had to get paid to come to this ruling.

If I were the judge I’d have taken that money out of the cop’s pay and fined him for wasting the court’s time.

Little guy pissed by his moms car because there were no bathrooms. What else was he supposed to do?

I'd say the kid was too shy to go in and ask tbh, especially if his mum was not in the waiting area. Parent of many and I could totally see that happening.

The whole thing is batshit crazy.