Mississippi<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>after police caught him relieving himself behind his mother’s car while she was at a lawyer’s office.<\/p>\nA lawyer for the family of the boy – who is black – claimed he would not have been prosecuted if he was white.<\/p>\n
“I thought any sensible judge would dismiss the charge completely,” said lawyer Carlos Moore.<\/p>\n
His request to get the case thrown out was denied and the prosecution threatened to upgrade the charges if he took it to trial.<\/p>\n
Mr Moore said he couldn’t find a case of a child getting a similar sentence for the same offence.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think there is a male in America who has not discreetly urinated in public,” the lawyer added.<\/p>\n
“He urinated next to the car behind the door – not exposing himself to anyone,” he told Sky’s US partner, NBC News.<\/p>\n
“He would not have been arrested, prosecuted or sentenced if he was any other colour, race, besides black.”<\/p>\n
Prosecutors initially wanted Quantavious to write an essay about public decency, said Mr Moore, but the judge changed it to a piece on Bryant because the youngster likes basketball.<\/p>\n
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Latonya Eason said her son’s sentence wasn’t fair<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n
Judge Rusty Harlow handed down the sentence on Tuesday at Tate County’s youth court.<\/p>\n
The boy’s arrest happened in Senatobia, Mississippi, on 10 August.<\/p>\n
Police chief Richard Chandler said he wasn’t handcuffed, but the child’s mother Latonya Eason said he was put in a cell.<\/p>\n
Ms Eason said the sentence wasn’t fair.<\/p>\n
“The average child would use the bathroom outside\u2026 and probably some grown men that would do the same thing,” she said.<\/p>\n
Police said the officers had violated training on how to deal with children – and one was “no longer employed”, while the others would be disciplined.<\/p>\n
The head of civil rights organisation Colour Of Change said the decision to charge didn’t make sense.<\/p>\n
“Nothing about this case from the decisions by the police, the prosecutor, and the judge makes us safer or is a good use of taxpayer resources,” said Rashad Robinson.<\/p>\n
He said Mississippi and other states had a history of a “two-tiered justice system” – one for black children and one for white.<\/p>\n
The boy must now check in with a probation officer once a month but won’t get a criminal record.<\/p>\n
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