SENATOBIA, Miss. (WREG) — The mother of a 10-year-old boy who was detained in Senatobia, Mississippi for public urination has filed a $2 million federal lawsuit against the city, police department, and the officers that were involved.

The child was detained in August 2023 for public urination after police witnessed him relieving himself in an attorney’s private parking lot.

After the incident, Senatobia’s police chief announced one of the officers involved in the child’s arrest was no longer employed and the other officers would be disciplined.

A Youth Court Judge ruled in December that the 10-year-old boy would serve three months probation and have to write a two-page book report on the late basketball star Kobe Bryant or be designated a “child in need of supervision.”

However, a judge dismissed the case earlier this month.

The lawsuit, filed by the child’s mother Latonya Eason, lists eight counts, including excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment, Mississippi state law claims for negligence, State law claim for negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress/bystander’s claim, failure to train and supervise, Mississippi state law claims for false arrest and imprisonment, respondeat superior, violation of 14th Amendment rights, and malicious prosecution.

Eason is asking for compensatory damages in the amount of $2,000,000 and punitive damages “in an amount sufficient to punish Defendants for the intentional, malicious, callous, bad faith, willful, wanton, negligent and reckless misconduct alleged in this Complaint.”