Four Tennessee high school students were arrested and charged with indecent exposure in recent weeks, two of them jailed for it, because they allegedly sagged their pants, according to the Huffington Post.
Two seniors at Bolivar Central High School spent 48 hours in jail because of their “low-riding” pants. One of the students, Antonio Ammons, told the station he’d never been in jail before when he was placed with other inmates.
Sagging of the pants violates the school dress code and Deputy Charles Woods, the school’s resource officer, told local NBC station WMC he’d already reprimanded the students several times.
The four arrests were made between November 1 and November 15, with three of the arrests made by Woods, according to records posted online by the Hardeman County Sheriff’s Department. The arresting officer of the fourth has not been listed.
While not everyone agreed with the arrests made, Woods said Ammons had been suspended previously for allegedly “showing gang related/hate violence or intimidation” and that he “walks around all day, every day disrespecting the rules of the school, the principal, the teachers, other students and even the SRO,” according to the Huffington Post.
It was also reported saggy pants have become a point of contention in other communities, banned in several places including Opa-Locka, Florida, and Wildwood, New Jersey. Earlier this year, a city council member in Dadeville, Alabama, proposed banning sagging pants because “God would not go around with pants down.”
