Slidell father arrested for cursing in public

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A Slidell father said cussing at his 4-year-old son, landed him in jail.

Kevin Mitchell, 29, said Slidell police officers arrested and booked him with disturbing the peace, after they heard him cussing at his son. It happened Feb. 21 outside a Walmart Neighborhood Market.

Mitchell and his wife Jordan said they never thought a trip to Walmart, to buy asparagus, would lead to an arrest. "You can hear me telling the man you can't tell me how to talk to my children.

He kept saying, 'You can't curse in Slidell. You can't do this in Slidell.' And I just told the man, what are you going to do? And he arrested me," Mitchell said.

Mitchell said he cussed at his son because he almost hit the car door next to him when getting out. That car was the officer's.

“That's when the officer let his window down and said, 'You can't be cursing like that.' I said, 'Sir I'm talking to my children.' And he kept saying, well, you can't talk like that in Slidell. I said sir, I'm talking to my children," Mitchell said.

Mitchell said he then went inside the store. On his way out, he was met with several officers. They later arrested him.

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