Mom Latonya Eason said cops went overboard when they arrested her son Quantavious outside the Leigh Ann Darby Law Office on August 10.
She was visiting her attorney when her son committed the public indecency infraction in Senatobia, Mississippi
Police chief Richard Chandler said officers made an 'error of judgement' when they put him in a squad car and took him to jail
A 10-year-old African-American child was reduced to tears last week after he was arrested and hauled off to jail for urinating behind his mother's car.
Cops in Senatobia, a Mississippi town set just south of Memphis, have since apologized for the incident - with the local sheriff now calling the arresting officer's actions an 'error in judgement.'
The child's mother, Latonya Eason, said the August 10 arrest could have been easily avoided and that the responding officer went overboard by carting son Quantavious off to jail.
She said she was visiting her attorney's office when her son committed the public indecency infraction - which usually only warrants a ticket - and was inside when the unnamed cop came marching in to tell her what her son had done.
The furious mom said the officer was at first going to let the child off with a warning, but had a change of heart once other cops came on the scene. A lieutenant allegedly demanded cops take him in to be hit with a statute for being left unattended.
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