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While fashion comes and goes fairly quickly in today’s society, one trend that has always held controversy with it is the “saggy pants” phenomenon. And as some teens recently discovered, this particular wardrobe choice comes with some hefty consequences.
Deputy Charles Woods of Bolivar Central High School in Tennessee caused quite a stir after dishing out what many say is an overly harsh punishment to four high school students who refused to pull their pants up.
The punishments varied from fines to jail time, and two of those teens were actually incarcerated for 48 hours due to their low-riding clothing choices.
So, was the punishment too tough or did these students deserve what they got?
Four teenagers attending Bolivar Central High School faced criminal charges for indecent exposure after refusing to abide by the school’s dress code by pulling up their sagging trousers.
Of those four, three were arrested by Deputy Charles Woods, while the arresting officer for the fourth teen was not listed in online records from Hardeman County Sheriff’s Department.
Two of them were seniors at BCHS and ended up spending 48 hours in jail after Deputy Woods decided enough was enough with regards to their disobedience over pulling up their pants.
One of them was Antonio Ammons, who said he had never been put behind bars before that incident.
He also had to pay more than $250 in fines and court fees as a result of his arrest – something he clearly wasn’t happy about having experienced first-hand what it’s like inside a Hardeman County Criminal Justice Complex cell with other inmates.
As you might expect, some people thought that jailing these teens over low waistbands went too far – especially considering saggy pants weren’t technically considered “indecent exposure” under Tennessee law at that time according to Attorney Leslie Ballin’s assessment on the matter.
Student Cheyenne Lindsey defended her fellow peers saying “they didn’t need to go that extreme,” while parent Crystal Wing added that she believed “jail time might be a little too much”.
Shannon Till suggested alternative measures such as community service could have been implemented instead.
This is something which Bishop John Birmingham from Kansas City agreed with when he heard about this saga involving Deputy Charles Woods’ arrests back in 2017 so much so that he started an initiative among voters asking for signatures banning public indecency in his city later that same year.
