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Doug Holland @lemmy.world

1y ago

10-year-old black boy in Mississippi gets probation and an essay assignment, after being arrested and taken to jail for peeing behind his mother's car

web.archive.org Child receives probation, required to write 2-page paper on Kobe Bryant after urination arrest

The sentence for the boy comes four months after officers found him urinating behind his mother's car while she was in a meeting with her attorney.

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Did not expose themselves and was hidden behind a car. That is not public urination then. It's no more public than a truck stop bathroom. Cops gonna start busting people at rest stop bathrooms because they are not in their own home pissing?
- Just brown people
  
  Yep

Who gives a shit? I've had my kid pee on the side of the road with the passenger side door open to act as a screen, and never had a problem with the cops. This is incredibly stupid.

- Imagine the number of people who could have just laughed, said "what a stupid case" and dismissed it, and none of them did. That's systemic racism. It's a machine that, once started, won't stop.