The Senatobia Police Department said the incident represented an error in judgment. Latonya Eason, the 10-year-old’s mother, said she will seek legal action.
“The officer’s decisions violated our written policy and went against our prior training on how to deal with these situations,” the statement said. The police department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.describing “the arrest of a 10-year-old child,” the department said a juvenile who had been caught Aug.
The incident evoked a swift backlash, once again highlighting misconduct within law enforcement especially when policing Black communities. The department did not share the race of the officers involved.“His apology is not good enough for me,” Latonya Eason, the boy’s mother, told local CBS outlet in response to the statement from Chandler, the Senatobia police chief, adding that she was going to seek legal action.last week that her son had urinated behind her car in the absence of a public restroom while she visited an attorney’s office.Her son told the channel he felt scared and cried, unsure of what would happen to him.
The boy received a referral for youth court before being released to his mother, police said. The Youth Court Act, Chandler said in his statement, allows officers to file a citation against children as young as 7 in need of supervision or against 10-year-olds for delinquent acts — acts that are illegal for adults.
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