What does Kobe Bryant have to do with public urination?
10-year-old arrested for public urination given probation, required to write two-page essay on the late NBA champion
I know he was a girl dad, but I feel like legend Kobe Bryant would have a real issue being affiliated with a 10-year-old boy Quantavious, who was arrested for public urination. Regardless of not being handcuffed, this 10-year-old was put into the back of a squad car and a jail cell — for peeing. Later on, the Mississippi police summed up the arrest for public urination near his mother’s car as an "error in judgment."
Regardless of the “error in judgment,” Guardian reports that a judge ordered the child to serve three months’ probation and write a two-page book report on the late NBA star Kobe Bryant. This Dec. 12 demand will more than likely give this kid mixed feelings about his favorite basketball star. Quantavious may never be able to disassociate his public urination arrest with the five-time NBA champion, who had zero to do with this incident. And writing about a black male professional or a sport as punishment is the epitome of mind games. I believe that judgment was intentional and long-lasting.
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When is Mississippi’s police department actually fighting crime?
On a basic level, I co-sign with Bloomberg writer Daniel Denvir that more money should be invested into public bathrooms versus public urination arrests. On a larger scale, public urination laws definitely shouldn’t get this kind of repercussion for a minor doing it. Meanwhile, this year, there were 104 murders, 684 non-consensual sexual offenses and 2,075 aggravated assaults in Mississippi, on top of 295 robberies. Now that’s something Mississippi (and any other state) should prioritize. Someone who hasn’t even hit middle school relieving himself while he waited on his mother? Not so much.