Judge faces criticism following report that Black children were illegally jailed in Tennessee county.
The investigation centers around a 2016 incident where 11 Black children, some as young as 8 and 9 years old, were allegedly arrested for not stopping a fight captured on video. Ten of the children were charged with"criminal responsibility for conduct of another."
The ProPublica report detailed systems set up by Davenport, which allegedly lead to the improper arrest and detention of children. A class-action lawsuit filed, and later settled, against Rutherford County alleges this process was a violation of Tennessee law. For many juvenile misdemeanor offenses, state law requires that police officers release children with a citation or a summons rather than taking them into custody, according to the lawsuit.Rutherford County Juvenile Court Judge Donna Scott Davenport is pictured in an undated image published on the official website of Rutherford County, Tenn.
Dylan Geerts, a named plaintiff in the lawsuit, but not a part of the 2016 incident, was one of those children. When he was 15, he said he was arrested for stealing change and small items from a car. "I really struggled through my teenage years after that," Geerts said, noting that he had fallen in with the"wrong crowd" during his time in juvenile detention.
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