Can someone explain some logic behind this?

[legalboxers]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mississippi-child-arrested-urinating_n_657b77fee4b0e142c0bcf5e1#
Attorney To File Federal Lawsuit Over Black Child Arrested For Urinating In Mississippi

An attorney in Mississippi is preparing to file a federal lawsuit after a 10-year-old Black child was arrested and sentenced to a three-month probation for urinating in public.

Police in Senatobia, Mississippi, arrested a third grader who urinated outside his mother’s car in August. The child’s mother, Latonya Eason, was in a meeting in a nearby building when an officer came inside and told her that he’d seen her son relieving himself. Eason told HuffPost she then went outside to ask her son why he’d done that, and his sister replied that a bathroom hadn’t been available.

More officers arrived at the scene moments later, Eason said. The officer who witnessed the child urinating initially did not want to arrest him, according to Eason, but a lieutenant advised him to. Police took the child to a cell inside of a precinct, and Eason said they questioned him without her present.

When Eason arrived at the precinct, she said the police “did not take me where my baby was.”

The child was charged this week in youth court as a “child in need of supervision.” He will be required to check in with a probation officer once a month for three months, and to write a two-page report about the late basketball player Kobe Bryant.

The prosecutor suggested increasing the charges if all parties didn’t agree to the probation terms, according to Carlos Moore, an attorney representing the child.

[Oliverlogan263]

Here's my take on the logic behind this situation:

It seems pretty messed up that this kid got arrested and put on probation just for peeing outside. Like the article said, it was cause there wasn't another bathroom available and he's just a little kid.

I can kinda get why the first cop didn't want to arrest him, that makes sense. But then some higher up lieutenant tells him he has to, which is bogus. Why does a kid need to get locked up for something so minor?

Then putting him in the cell alone without his mom is wrong too. She should have been with him the whole time.

The charges they slapped on him are also total overkill, like calling him a "child in need of supervision" for peeing? Come on.

It really seems like they took it too far just cause he's Black. You know if it was a white kid they probably would have just told him not to do it again and left it at that.

I'm glad the lawyer is suing, someone needs to hold these cops accountable when they mess with kids like that. Hopefully this gets things changed so other kids don't have to go through something so stupid and traumatic.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

The police were out of term to arrest a child and place him on probation.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Thanks for MHO :)