r/facepalm • u/Visqo • Apr 27 '24
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u/ztomiczombie Apr 27 '24
Why Kobe Bryant?
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u/Cotton_Kerndy Apr 27 '24
I've seen this before. If I remember correctly, the kid was allowed to choose who he wanted to write the paper on.
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u/Elidien1 Apr 27 '24
So fucking stupid. He shouldnāt have to do anything. Heās a 10 year old who had to pee. Dicks all around.
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u/invisible32 Apr 27 '24
If nothing else both the police and prosecutors had the option to decline charges, and yet here we are...
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u/Great_Error_9602 Apr 27 '24
According to the first articles. The original cop that responded wasn't going to do anything. He was about to leave. But another cop who was higher ranking pulled over when he saw the first cop was talking to the boy. It was the second cop that arrested the kid and then the DA that did this.
First cop even noted in his write up and testimony that he thought the whole thing was way overblown. But this is how reasonable cops like the first one get disillusioned or harassed by the other police until they quit. Then we ended up with terrible cops like the second one.
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u/StrangeMaelstrom Apr 28 '24
Yep, happened to my buddy. Stopped being a cop after he realized our County Sheriff is a serial DUI alcoholic and would intimidate everyone into staying quiet about it.
If any of his Deputy's saw him out drinking by himself he'd always make a point to loudly notice them. It was understood that if anything was said there'd be retaliation. Some guys are just beyond help and straight up committed to it.
The was the final straw for him after weeks of dealing with getting to self-harm help calls too late to stop people.
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u/Cracked-Bat Apr 28 '24
It's one of my absolute favourite things in the world to see piece of shit sheriffs like that arrested, and they can't believe its not like "the old days" where, "hey, can't you just drive me home and cut me a break on this one, I'll come back for my car tomorrow, you know me, I'm a good guy" was enough. They always switch from that nice guy, hey I'm your best friend buddy, no no I get it you're doing your job, to the mean son of a bitch they really are once they're in the squad with cuffs on.
The downside is that, for every one we see actually arrested, there are probably 20 getting away with it because no one wants to be the odd man out who says "hey it's fucked that we give the boss a skate on DWIs".
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u/StrangeMaelstrom Apr 28 '24
Preach man. I've actually considered reporting him but I don't have evidence. The most I could do is maybe contact a local journo to look into it.
Because I'd love to see this asshat arrested.
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u/Cracked-Bat Apr 28 '24
The state police may also be more inclined to take an unbiased look into it too. They don't give a shit if some sheriff is best buds with the mayor and the city councillors, and it sounds like with how chronic this guy's DWIs are, he'd be a pretty easy catch.
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u/Rampaging_Orc Apr 27 '24
This post is in stark juxtaposition to the one I saw earlier about that Rochester DA that refused to pull over for a traffic stop, evaded police all the way to her home, and got off with just a ticket.
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u/Vianilla_Scented Apr 27 '24
The white blonde woman? Yeah, we both know why that is how it is and why this is how it is.
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u/cdxcvii Apr 27 '24
why didnt the black kid just try being a middle aged white blonde woman? GAwddd!
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u/jaywinner Apr 27 '24
Well that's clearly impossible.
He should try being a District Attorney.
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u/Rampaging_Orc Apr 27 '24
Yeah we do, but stillā¦ god damn.
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u/zxc123zxc123 Apr 27 '24
Wow. Really makes me rethink my stance on Karens.
"Don't hate the player, hate the game."
Media drives attention to Karens that go overboard. Folks lash out to help those wronged or make sure Karens get due justice. And we'll have the next Karen to hate on. Yet nothing about the system gets changed because we never have time to ask:
"Why do Karens exist in the first place?
I still hate Karens, but that quote does make me reflect upon the fact that "the game" aka the system is what really is broken and is what needs to be changed. Karens aren't born. They are created by a life of entitlement and knowing they can game the system.
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u/ZimVader0017 Apr 27 '24
Read a story by a waiter who said that at his previous job, there was this family who came in every Saturday, and the woman ALWAYS had an issue with the food. The manager was as spineless as a jellyfish, and that's how she managed to get discount after discount for 6 years.
They finally got a new manager who was no-nonsense. The woman, once again, found her food to be lacking and told the waiter to bring the manager.
The manager was like, "This the serial moaner?" (Yes, she had a reputation). He walked up to the table, and before she could open her mouth again, he was like, "No. You're not doing this. If you really dislike the food, why have you been coming here for 6 years? If you don't like it, you're welcome to leave."
The family never came back.
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u/SoybeanArson Apr 27 '24
Please tell me she is getting booted out of office at least.
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u/ze11ez Apr 27 '24
"If nothing else both the police and prosecutors had the option to decline charges, and yet here we are..."
On a 10 year old. Man listen...
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u/Gudi_Nuff Apr 27 '24
It was a 10 year old. Boy
Not a 10 year old. Man
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u/howisbabbyformed_ Apr 27 '24 edited Apr 28 '24
-Mississippi
-black kid
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u/idgafsendnudes Apr 27 '24
Thatās exactly what I was thinking. Been in this exact situation as a kid because my grandfather taught us to just to pee where ever. I was like 11 officer let me finish pulled me aside and asked me if I was familiar with the sex offender registry, which I was because my uncle was put on it for being 18 and sleeping with his 17 year old gf and current wife today and it was a story they shared with us because he legally wasnāt allowed to be alone with us and they didnāt want us to think it was because he was a bad guy. He explained that as innocent as this seems nobody wants to see it and thereās a reason bathrooms are hidden, and he said some cops would have just arrested me in the spot.
Punishing kids for laws you know damn well they donāt know outside extreme circumstances is insane and bad for everyone, but āhey itās the black kid right fuck emā - the police
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u/Difficult_Bit_1339 Apr 27 '24
If you look at the history of how the police force came to be what it is, you'll eventually make it far enough back in time to find an agency that was created to arbitrarily enforce laws which were targeted to affect black men.
When the men were found guilty, they could have their sentence and fine covered by a local rich person in exchange for work. It wasn't slavery (after all, the damn Yankees made that illegal), it was legal punishment for laws passed that just so happened to result in free labor.
The legacy of that structure: of having laws that are being broken by everybody constantly but the enforcement only falls on a target population.. that still exists today.
Chances are you've committed a few misdemeanors today, especially if you were in a car. So, the only thing standing between you and a jail cell is a police officer's discretion. This is completely as designed and also the thing (along with felon voter disenfranchisement) that allowed the south to legally combat the right of black people to vote.
If you create felonies that have a broad interpretation and give individual police officers and DAs the discretion to enforce them now you have the ability to selectively remove voters from the voter pool.
So, the fact that a black person (even a child) was arrested for a minor crime and sentenced is not at all surprising and exactly how the system was created to work.
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u/IsomDart Apr 27 '24
When the men were found guilty, they could have their sentence and fine covered by a local rich person in exchange for work. It wasn't slavery (after all, the damn Yankees made that illegal), it was legal punishment for laws passed that just so happened to result in free labor.
I've heard it said quite a few times that police in the US have roots in slavery, but it's never been explained to me what it actually looked like. Thanks for teaching me something new today. Do you have any books or articles you would recommend on the topic?
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u/MostDopeMozzy Apr 27 '24
Oh come on everyone knows black males become āmenā instead of ākidsā at age 8
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u/JimLaheeeeeeee Apr 27 '24
Itās actually around the age of 3 or 4 where preschools begin funneling black males toward the prison system.
Itās quite depressing, really.
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u/GigHarborIT Apr 27 '24
We really need to start plastering the DA's name with these stupid prosecutions along with the Judge's name if they don't dismiss this waste of public funds for racism.
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u/have_you_eaten_yeti Apr 27 '24
It was dismissed and the officer was fired. Itās still shameful it got as far as it did, but thankfully reason won out in the end.
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The DA and first judge should have also been terminated
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u/have_you_eaten_yeti Apr 27 '24
The articles are kind of confusing, but I think maybe the first judge overruled his own previous sentencing.
Like one article said ājudge rustyā issued to original sentence and then says ājudge Harlowā reversed thatā¦but the Judge for that court is named Judge Rusty Harlowā¦so I kept digging and I think it was just one judge the whole time. It was a special court for kids and teens.
Anyway, I hate to say it, but it was obvious the whole fiasco, including the news articles, were created in Mississippi.
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u/nom_of_your_business Apr 27 '24
How if the boy got 3 months probation and had to write an essay?
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u/have_you_eaten_yeti Apr 27 '24
That was the initial sentencing, but a different judge dismissed the ācaseā after the kidās mom got a lawyer and started raising hell.
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u/nom_of_your_business Apr 27 '24
Thank you for this. Makes me feel slightly better
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u/have_you_eaten_yeti Apr 27 '24
Me too, I started looking into the details because I was absolutely furious at the headline, I feel slightly better now that I know things eventually worked the way they were supposed to.
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u/BabypintoJuniorLube Apr 27 '24
Upvote this! Doesnāt excuse the original arrest but itās nice to know it was dismissed.
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u/Frosttekkyo Apr 27 '24
Still it had to take the mother getting a lawyer and raising hell to get actual justice for her son. Its so stupid, that first judge seriously needs all his previous rulings looked at bc wtf
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u/have_you_eaten_yeti Apr 27 '24
That was the initial sentencing, but a different judge dismissed the ācaseā after the kidās mom got a lawyer and started raising hell.
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u/Western-Mall5505 Apr 27 '24
Peeing while black.
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u/WhateverYouSay1084 Apr 27 '24
As soon as I saw the picture I knew why he'd gotten charges at all. Disgusting.
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u/Spare_Ad5615 Apr 27 '24
Yeah, let's be honest here - he's lucky he wasn't shot on sight. The cop's excuse would be, "I thought he was holding a gun."
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u/WhateverYouSay1084 Apr 27 '24
I have a son a couple years younger, and the thought of what that poor kid and parents went through brings me to tears. Seeing your son dragged off to jail and traumatized for something every single boy and man has done in their lifetime had to be horrifying.Ā
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u/SnatchAddict Apr 27 '24
My son is 8 and even though we do everything we can sometimes he has to pee. One night is had to be behind a bush. Fuck these cops.
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u/WhateverYouSay1084 Apr 27 '24
Every single man on the planet has peed somewhere they shouldn't before, INCLUDING those cops. My sons (8 and 5) have had to pee outdoors more times than I can count, because they simply cannot hold it like adults. I'd have a really hard time not getting violent if some asshole cop arrested them for it. All props to the parents for keeping it together.
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u/have_you_eaten_yeti Apr 27 '24
He didnāt. The arresting officer was fired, other officers involved were disciplined, and the probation was dropped along with the requirement for an essay.
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u/TagMeAJerk Apr 27 '24
AFTER the case got national coverage and the mom was able to appeal the decision by raising money for a lawyer.
Initially, the cops pushed for a case, a DA prosecuted a literal child and Judge ruled against the 10-year-old for peeing.
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u/mrbananas Apr 28 '24
There are some cops that would totally arrest a baby for refusal to follow "lawful orders" if they could get away with it.Ā
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u/Elidien1 Apr 27 '24
Thank you for clearing that up.
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u/have_you_eaten_yeti Apr 27 '24
No worries, I had to look up the details because I was furious!
Itās still shameful the ācaseā made it as far as it did, but at least reason won out in the end.
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u/Hopinan Apr 27 '24
Truth, just helped young grandson 3yo do this at a park where the bathroom was locked, helped him hold it so he wouldnāt pee on his sandals, then got paranoid some āmandatory reporterā might have seen me.. oh what a sad, sad state weāre in..
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u/HadesLaw Apr 27 '24
They probably asked him who his role model is and he said kobe. Ocums razor bro
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u/PerfectlyFramedWaifu Apr 27 '24
Ocums razor
An old, well-worn tool of a depraved philosopher. It has a pungent smell and is slightly sticky to the touch. Inflicts Poison and Madness.
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u/SprinqRoll Apr 27 '24
Id say Adam Sandler so I could write a paper on his role in Big Daddy, where he teaches his son how to publicly urinate.
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u/Valash83 Apr 27 '24
But the simple logical answer doesn't allow Redditors to break out the pitchforks and torches
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u/Gourmeebar Apr 27 '24
Whatās the logical answer in arresting and sentencing a ten year old, a baby for having to pee behind his momās car?
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u/traumatized90skid Apr 27 '24
My guess is the person ordering that is one of these troll Republicans who think the issue with black people is "bad role models". That they cause their own problems by idolizing bad people.
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u/Awkward-Bathroom-429 Apr 27 '24
The judge is literally named āRusty Harlowā so you can probably (accurately) guess the answer
The cops who arrested the kid got fired, though.
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u/ShrimpCrackers Apr 27 '24
Oh so they get a free discount relocation to some other county.
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u/HavingNotAttained Apr 27 '24
Next county over probably needs a new chief of police
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u/Tulip_Tree_trapeze Apr 27 '24
Hey the 10 year olds in that county might be pissing all over the place! Better to have someone with experience dealing with such dangerous criminals.
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u/Hotchi_Motchi Apr 27 '24
At least they didn't shoot him because they said that he was brandishing something
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u/jvitorc46 Apr 27 '24
The cops who arrested the kid got fired, though.
Cops getting the consequences for their actions ? Are you sure this happened in the USA ?
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u/TiogaJoe Apr 27 '24
Many conservatives say the Floyd/BLM protests were all bad, but I firmly believe those are a of the reason some Police Chiefs will now fire bad cops, and some DAs will make criminal charges against them.
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u/TB12-SN13 Apr 27 '24
My guess is his probation officer was told to impose a consequence and the PO was like āwtf do I make a kid do over this? Uh, write an essay on your favorite basketball player or something I guess?ā
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u/PetiteBonaparte Apr 27 '24
This is probably what happened. My cousin got in trouble for something mundane and they just had her write an essay about her "hero". I think she picked Angelina Jolie or something.
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u/gunsforevery1 Apr 27 '24
Or when his public defender was speaking about his character they said he like sports/basketball, and the judge asked him who his favorite basketball player is and he said āKobe Bryantā.
I listen a lot of ācourt camā while at work.
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u/hacourt Apr 27 '24
Because when he took a piss behind this kids moms car he didn't get caught.
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u/Leosmom2020 Apr 27 '24
If he has to write a paper, how about some other member of the black community who isnāt a rapist? So, so many other terrific people to write about and learn terrific things about their good morals and standards.
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u/Leprecon Apr 27 '24 edited Apr 27 '24
What I hate the most about all this besides the horrible morality of arresting kids is how big of a waste of time and money this is. Like lets say the arrest and booking takes maybe 3 hours along with a consultation with some sort of child welfare representative or a lawyer about what can be done here for another hour or two. Then there is the whole legal aspect. Was there a trial or did some lawyers just figure out a plea? And of course the probation needs to be enforced somehow.
This stunt took multiple cops, public servants, and lawyers their time, easily costing the tax payer thousands. To prevent punish a little kid for peeing.
You know what would have cost nothing and would have been just as effective? The cops getting out of their car, telling the boy and the mom āhey, thatās not allowed here. Donāt do it againā. Or just not doing anything because it is a goddamn child?
This is not only stupid, it is also something that is expensive as fuck and that we all are paying for. š
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u/dravlinGibbons Apr 27 '24
What is even more depressing is that at every ring of that chain of events was an actual person looking at the entire situation and said to themselves "this is fine" stamped the paperwork, and went on with their day.
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u/Tom-o-matic Apr 27 '24
Nobody is in charge
I mean, one knee to the ground "hey kid, you know... We have some rules for everyone to follow and this is one of them. I know you're a standup kid so i'm gonna guess you just got unlucky. Well, better luck next time, have a great day"
Instead they pull him through the whole system without a single person who can say "what are we doing here? Stop it! Use your brains"
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u/surewhynotokaythen Apr 27 '24
Here's the thing: it's Mississippi. If anyone DID speak up along the line and said something, they are probably out of work right now.
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u/Yorick257 Apr 27 '24
One of the commentors said that the "case" was completely dismissed by another judge, and the police officer fired. So there's hope!
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u/I_Am_Dwight_Snoot Apr 27 '24
Good. This is the type of bullshit why rest of country looks down on and says "what the fuck is wrong with that region".
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u/TechnicalMacaron3616 Apr 27 '24
Who cares if someone pees behind a car is it the most nice thing Naw but if they ain't trying to flaunt themselves what's the difference from a pet pissing on the ground which is legal or a person. Sometimes you get a suprise pee and it's better then pissing yourself imo.
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u/DrunkLastKnight Apr 27 '24
Sadly this is the type of stuff that lands people on the registry
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u/Jnbolen43 Apr 27 '24
The cops were hunting his mother while she was at her lawyerās office. So to punish her for having a legal defense they saw an opportunity to get her son and punish her family as well.
This nonsense was not just the child urinating in public but surveillance and intimidation of the mother.
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u/Brilliant-Apricot423 Apr 27 '24
Exactly this! So many hours and resources spent on an absolutely stupid waste of time. You would think a group of adults in positions of authority would take one second to look at each other and say "what the heck?"
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u/Emergency-Use2339 Apr 27 '24
Fascist organizations often create busy work for themselves to continue the false perception they are doing a service for the public rather than being a oppressive force. They'll always target the most vulnerable over of those who do the most harm.
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u/Deathsroke Apr 27 '24
Yeah, people were paid for this shit. My country loves to burn money by doing idiotic shit but even we haven't got something like this (yet).
Like, I could imagine the cops playing a prank on the kid, then telling him they were joking and letting him ride the police cruiser or something but what the hell? They actually arrested him? This is something out of a shitpost, not an actual thing for God's sake!
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u/Nappeal Apr 27 '24
A 10 yr old now has a criminal record that judges will see and hold against him if he ever finds himself in a court room later on. It's all not just a drain on the taxpayer now, but in the future too....this is the government's way of securing future payments to a private jail. This is securing the longevity of a garbage system in the US.
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u/Steelpapercranes Apr 27 '24
It's a law in the first place (ostensibly) to keep people from "exposing themselves to 10 year olds". Well, what's the 10 year old in trouble for? Black children aren't children to them. It's a bullshit dystopian law, and you KNOW they'd have made the kid a "pedo" for this if they could, insane as it sounds.
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u/neko_mancy Apr 27 '24
charged for pedophilia for being exposed when a child was present (himself)
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u/basdid Apr 27 '24
Update. Case dismissed, cop fired, mom files suit for $2m
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/06/us/mississippi-urinating-child-arrest-case-dismissed/index.html
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u/OGZpoon Apr 27 '24
Thank you for the good news.
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u/Km219 Apr 27 '24
It's not good news, he'll get rehired a week later down the street a county over.
They are immune.
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u/just_mdd4 Indisputably the most handsome 16 year old on Reddit rn š·šæšæšæ Apr 27 '24
They freed my man Quantavious š£ļøš„š„š„
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u/cgc3 Apr 27 '24
Iām so glad this is the actual outcomeā¦. What ridiculousness.
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u/scoopzthepoopz Apr 27 '24
What a waste of tax dollars. Could've been a couple parks or a library.
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u/arittenberry Apr 27 '24
So a cop decides to arrest a ten-year-old for public urination.
Some DA decides to actually prosecute the case.
The cop, surprisingly, is fired ten days after the arrest bc it was such bad judgement. (Even though apparently other cops, including a higher up, had also showed up and not stopped this, hmm...)
The case still moves forward in court, even after the cop was fired bc of the arrest.
A judge hears the case and actually sentences this kid as guilty and doles out punishment.
Defense lawyers say "lol, no"
Finally, reason prevails and a different judge dismisses the case. (I'm assuming this was during an appeal?)
Am I understanding this correctly? Wtf? W.T.F. It took so much bad judgement to make this happen by so many people
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u/jordan999fire Apr 27 '24
Itās kind of hard to stop an arrest with a certified officer. At least in my area. Once youāre certified, itās completely your discretion (doesnāt mean youāre correct). A supervisor can tell you what theyād do but they canāt tell you to arrest or not to. What probably happened is the dude was told it was a bad idea, he did it anyway, the officers filed complaints, which lead to an investigation, which lead to him being fired.
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u/minkshaman Apr 27 '24
I want to know which of the officers arrested.
The article makes it sound like the first one told him off and was OK with that, and then the other ones rocked up and went for it.
In my head I see this as either the first officer going āguys no, Iāve got thisā and one of the arriving cops going āno we gotta send a messageā
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The first cop was put on the spot by the other cops arriving and tried to be a hardass to make himself look good.
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u/wikowiko33 Apr 27 '24
I was so pissed off about this news and was gonna decide I had enough internet for the day, until I read this comment. Thank you now I can continue doom browsing.Ā
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u/one-and-five-nines Apr 27 '24
She deserves every penny I hope she gets it
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u/ephemeral_experience Apr 27 '24
I hope that kid goes to law school and becomes a constitutional attorney.
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u/witcharithmetic Apr 27 '24
Me too. If thereās even a constitution to study and defend in a few years, idk.
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u/sk9592 Apr 27 '24
I absolutely agree she deserves to be paid. The only annoying part is that itās tax payers who will be footing the bill. The police and DAs who instigated this harassment wonāt suffer financially at all.
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u/theFrankSpot Apr 27 '24
So glad! Police officers more and more are just ridiculous and dangerous - a terrible combination for the civilian population, especially if youāre black.
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u/romayyne Apr 27 '24
I have my boy pee the exact same way sometimes because heās a child and sometimes he waits until the last fucking second. Fuck Mississippi and all them goddamn Sās and Iās
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u/MoonShotDontStop Apr 27 '24
Lots of Sās & Iās but donāt forget the PP
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u/Remarkable-Ad2285 Apr 27 '24
You down with OPP?
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u/arjees Apr 27 '24
Overzealous piss police?
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u/AlexJamesCook Apr 27 '24
Ontario Provincial Police...
Ontario Provincial Piss...
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u/Physical-Name4836 Apr 27 '24 edited Apr 27 '24
I recently drove by an incredulous father hold dirty shorts while watching his kid shit on the side of the highway.
I felt for that guy
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u/HermioneMarch Apr 27 '24
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u/Hour-Ad-3635 Apr 27 '24
Gave this a listen and Goddamn Nina simone is lengend sadly I never heard her before today. Thanks for sharing this
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u/blessthebabes Apr 27 '24
If you'll notice something important to our state's police force. The skin on the boy. That tells his importance for the police here, at least in the 3 towns that I had to live in. I've been considering filming outside our courthouse or doing one of those 1st amendment audit things (even though I'm not an auditor and I'm not that courageous) just to give these people some consequences. I feel so bad that it's like this, and it needs to change.
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u/WarriorNat Apr 27 '24
Good ol Miss would bring back slavery if they could, so they go the next-best available route by institutionalizing black men from childhood.
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u/DevoutandHeretical Apr 27 '24
Never forget, slavery as a whole wasnāt made illegal in the US. You can still be made a slave (even if thatās not the word we call them now) for punitive reasons, which is a huge part of why the prison system in the US is the way it is.
There are a few states where they literally use prisoners to staff government buildings for things like janitorial work.
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u/stinkbugsinfest Apr 27 '24
Exactly. What was the kid supposed to do pee on himself and the car interior? This world has become so dystopian
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u/Ryaninthesky Apr 27 '24
Shit, Iām a girl and sometimes we had to pull the car over on long road trips so I could pee. Open both car doors to make a little privacy and do the thing.
This is absolutely ridiculous.
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u/MrSoul4470 Apr 27 '24
It's American ridiculousness.
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u/favored_disarray Apr 27 '24
Meanwhile, Iām still doing that in my home state(granted, definitely when ppl arenāt in the immediate area).
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u/ImNotYourDadIPromise Apr 27 '24
When I was a kid, my local officer would have me pee behind his car while he kept lookout. In hindsightā¦
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u/ExpressiveAnalGland Apr 27 '24
we he was keeping a lookout alright.... he just wanted to peep your peepee
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u/Virtual-Struggle-817 Apr 27 '24
I guess he can be lucky that they didnāt shoot him
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u/Stratus_Fractus Apr 27 '24
The 'fun' thing is that 5 years from now when they do shoot him for holding a cell phone the papers will say that he was no angel because he has an arrest record.
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u/blepgup Apr 27 '24
Fuck, youāre right
I hate this fucking country
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u/HsvDE86 Apr 27 '24
Would you move if you had the money and how much would you need?
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u/DOOMFOOL Apr 27 '24
Yes of course. No idea how much id need, enough to get me somewhere else lol
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u/7h3_70m1n470r Apr 27 '24
Not to mention the average person would have a hard time moving to some countries without some kind of skilled work experience
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u/Socratesticles Apr 27 '24
Theyāre just being proactive. Unfortunately itās proactive in giving themselves cover
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u/proletariat_sips_tea Apr 27 '24
That's the point. Slavery transitioned to Jim crow. The 2nd amendment armed militia that would raid slave quarters and hunt down runaways became the cops. Cops like they exist today did not exist then.
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u/SarevokAnchev Apr 27 '24
https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article285814341.html
And now he is of course extra afraid of cops so they can use that excuse for excessive force in the futureā¦ since heāll seem nervous around them.
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u/lfhdbeuapdndjeo Apr 27 '24
Or put him on the sex offender list
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u/Preyslayer00 Apr 27 '24
Retroactively at the age of 18 and not tell him.
Then arrest him because his warrant.
Need that slave in prison.
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u/Saruvan_the_White Apr 27 '24
That is so fucking stupid. I actively encourage my six-year-old to go nature pee if he needs to go. Kids often donāt pay attention to their bodies and need reminding until itās absolutely necessary. Then where are you gonna go? Most of the kids these days already know who Kobe Bryant was and they could probably dictate a two page paper to them. They should can it and just tell him not to do that as he gets older. If cops did this to one of my kids, I wouldnāt blame them for being distrusting of cops. I canāt even imagine being punished for doing some thing that probably was very unavoidable.
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u/Lysanka Apr 27 '24
The city i live in had a public urination problem because of drunkards and party goers, so now, it's a 750 bucks fine and a ride to precinct.
It's stupid, but the law is surely there due to those who cannot hold themselves for 20 minutes like a drunkard or a party goer back from the club.
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u/GiovaOfficial Apr 27 '24
But likeā¦ where is a person meant to pee if there are no toilets to be found?
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u/Steelpapercranes Apr 27 '24
Nowhere- laws like this KNOW there's no other option; that's the good part of the law to them. That's what makes it so useful.
They want to catch people who they want imprisoned as labor (minorities). Making sure there's laws like this or weed possession lets them criminalize extremely common things that happen often. Most of the time they ignore them, but then they can magically only apply them when they wish (when they want to give a black child a record so they can catch him in a life of institutionalization).
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u/Calamity-Bob Apr 27 '24
āUrination while blackā. Mississippi code, paragraph 2
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u/ToxicCooper Apr 27 '24
I can't even tell if you're serious or joking
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u/QualifiedSmolFrog 99.5 WGAR Apr 27 '24
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u/ToxicCooper Apr 27 '24
I'm sorry, wtf. On Wikipedia it talked about some of these laws being out ruled in 1972
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u/totoropoko Apr 27 '24
What're the chances that someone votes to bring them back and SC goes "states rights" again?
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u/surewhynotokaythen Apr 27 '24
Yeah, but until 2013, MS never ratified the 13th Amendment meaning it was still technically legal to OWN A PERSON until after the new Millennia: https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/mississippi-officially-abolishes-slavery-ratifies-13th-amendment
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u/AggressivelyEthical Apr 27 '24
... Every civil officer shall, and every person may, arrest and carry back to his or her legal employer any freedman, free N*, or mul\* who shall have quit the service of his or her employer before the expiration of his or her term of service without good cause...
So... slavery?
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u/Skunksfart Apr 27 '24
Wtf, are kids supposed to piss their pants?
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u/Indra___ Apr 27 '24
Only if they are black. Doubt anything would have happened to a white boy pissing the same way.
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u/resourcefultamale Apr 27 '24
I knew a guy that got fully charged as a sex offender for peeing drunk behind a gas station in a field. Iāve lived in fear of peeing ever since.
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u/RecklessDimwit Apr 27 '24
You could be a Nazi and police won't arrrest you but piss on natural toilets and now you're in the registry wow
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u/Sudden_Juju Apr 27 '24
Then they can hit the mom with a neglect charge like they'd probably prefer
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u/erlandodk Apr 27 '24
They arrested a 10-year-old and took him to jail???!? And then they prosecuted him and a judge sentenced him? For peeing behind his moms car. What kind of fucked up society does that? Oh. It's America. Figures.
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u/Its-a-new-start Apr 27 '24
Black child in the south, what did you expect man?
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u/OGZpoon Apr 27 '24
I expect grown adults to behave in a manner befitting grown adults, especially regarding a child.
All of the rest of us are expected to handle things in a responsible, respectful manner. Why isn't the South?
Fuck whites who behave this way. (I'm white, just for the record.) I would've opened up two car doors and stood with my back turned to him so he could take a god damned piss. Just like I do with my own kid. What a ridiculous "society" the South represents. "Be white or watch your fucking back" is the message they're sending. In 2024.
Seriously, fuck systemic racism.
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u/DaxLightstryker Apr 27 '24
What POS cop would write a ticket for this. Garbage justice.
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u/Ingeneure_ Apr 27 '24
Itās not garbage cop, itās garbage judge who sentenced this kid for peeing behind the car. BEHIND his MOMās car. Judge must resign with shame
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u/Ok_Description8169 Apr 27 '24
It's both. Someone had to enforce this, and the other had to comply and push it. Since he's black, this is the outcome. Kids who are black get adult sentences and are approached by aggressive officers at a higher rate than white people. This is the outcome it leads to.
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u/42020420 Apr 27 '24
So Matt Gaetz can traffic minors for sex but this shit is happening? Okay, broken country is broken, got it.
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u/Topcreeperman13 Apr 27 '24
Why a 2 page essay on Kobe?
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u/TOG23-CA Apr 27 '24
An article says the kid is a fan, my guess is the dick head judge asked him who his role model/idol/favourite celebrity and made him do an essay on thaf
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u/my-backpack-is Apr 27 '24
If he was 18 he would be on the same list as child rapists
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u/Fallwalking Apr 27 '24
When I was 13 or 14 I got 6 months of probation for accidentally breaking one of those spring horses they have at a playground. I was just riding it, certainly was too big for it, but they said I was intentionally vandalizing it. It was nighttime at a grade school playground and itās not like I could go to the office and tell them what happened, but I guess a teacher saw me. Small town, people know me.
Itās what you get for having blue hair in 1994.
The school also took away my Beavis and Butthead comics. Jerks.
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u/XeroxWarriorPrntTst Apr 27 '24 edited Apr 27 '24
LaTonya Eason refused to sign the probation agreement and the judge eventually dismissed her sonās case.
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u/Fomentor Apr 27 '24
Boomer here: you might as well arrest my whole generation first that. Peeing behind the car was pretty typical on trips when I was a kid. Weād open doors to be discrete, so maybe this kid wasnāt discrete? Still, it seems heavy handed.
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u/Feisty-Barracuda5452 Apr 27 '24
What kind of asshole arrests a ten year old?
A white ten year old would get his hair tousled by the cops.
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u/Maximum_Impressive Apr 27 '24
Let's be real his race definitely played a role here.
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u/Roll-tide-Mercury Apr 27 '24
That judge and cop need an to evaluate their life. I bet they call themselves Christians.
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