The mother of the 10-year-old boy who was seen urinating in public is demanding Justice and pleads for the firing of several police officers at the Senatobia Police Department for arresting her son over the situation.
LaTonya Eason, the mother of 10-year-old Quantavious Eason spoke with reporters on Wednesday with her attorney during a news conference and slammed the police department for not giving any consequences to officers that took her son jail. While speaking during conference Eason explained what happened when she went to the jail to get her son. “Once I got to the police station they still didn’t let me see my baby. They kept my baby in there 45 minutes to a hour and they were talking to me about something else that supposedly happened and that’s not what I was down there for, I was down there to pick up my child. My child that should have never been at you guys police station. I don’t have answers to this day as to why they did that. Not one time to this day have no one contacted me from Senatobia Police Department. They gave me no explanation, the mayor the chief, nobody.”
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LaTonya Eason also questioned whether race played a role in the incident. “No apology is good enough for me for you to arrest my child and put him in the backseat of a police car and take him down to your station, not only do you take him there, you put my child in a cage as if he’s a dog or something you don’t put my child in no cage. Would you have put a white child in the cage?” She questioned. “Let it have been a white child you know what he probably wouldn’t have stopped. So I’m going to fight until the end.”
As we previously reported, Latonya Eason stopped by an attorney’s office for legal advice and her visit wasn’t even 10 minutes but then suddenly an officer walked in and told her that he caught her son, Quantavious Eason, urinating behind her car. “I was like, ‘Son, why did you do that?’ He said, ‘Mom, my sister said they ain’t got a bathroom in there.’ I was like, ‘Well, you knew better. You should have came and asked me if they had a restroom,’” Eason said. She then says the officer was going to give him a warning, but that’s when more cops showed up to the scene and that’s when things took a left turn. “Another officer came over there and was like, ‘Your son gotta get out of the car. He gotta be arrested because he can’t do that,” Eason said. “I started crying a little bit. They took me down there and got me out of the truck. I didn’t know what was happening,” Quantavious said. “I get scared and start shaking and thinking I’m going to jail.” Quantavious was taken to the police station, where he says he was held in a jail cell.
According to CNN, a statement was released on Facebook from the police chief. “it was an error in judgment for us to transport the child to the police station since the mother was present at that time as a reasonable alternative.”
“The officer’s decisions violated our written policy and went against our prior training on how to deal with these situations,” a separate statement stated. The incident triggered an internal investigation and “as a result of this investigation one of the officers involved is no longer employed, and the others will be disciplined. We will also have mandatory Juvenile training department-wide, just as we do every year.”
Moore and the family are demanding an apology, and that the police chief, the lieutenant on scene, and the arresting officer be fired. The family also wants the arresting officer to be named and for the charge against Quantavious to be dropped.