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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mike Bedigan

Ten-year-old boy gets harsh sentence for public urination

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A 10-year-old Mississippi boy who was arrested for public urination has been sentenced to three months probation, in a decision that lawyers say was influenced by his race.

Quantavious Eason was handcuffed and “caged” after an officer spotted him urinating in a parking lot near an attorney’s office in the small town of Senatobia on 10 August, according to his mother.

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