Sagging Pants

Republican lawmaker Tom Weathersby has proposed counseling and fines in sagging pants ban.

Antonio Ammons, 18, was arrested by a resource officer at Bolivar Central High School along with another student for "indecent exposure" in November.

New York State Senator Eric Adams is fed up with seeing male youths walking around with low slung or sagging pants that exposes their underwear. Consequently, Adams is currently lobbying for a resolution to adopt a ban against wearing droopy pants in New York City public school classrooms, reports the New York Post. SEE ALSO: Why Hasn’t The Black Church […]

A Chicago group is the newest collective of people tired of seeing underwear on their streets. Empowered Citizens of North Lawndale, a neighborhood group in Chicago, is calling on city leaders to make an amendment to indecent exposure laws that will make saggy pants illegal. The group says the trend is offensive and African Americans […]

In an effort to pass Florida’s new “Pull Your Pants Up”  law, State Senator Gary Siplin showed up to Orlando schools on the first day of classes to hand belts to students whose pants sagged. “We want our kids to believe they’re going to college, and part of that is an attitude, and part of that […]

Three brothers from Newark, New Jersey created a jeans company that offers jeans with built in boxers that suspend the pants from falling completely down when sagged. The denim company, Sagz, boasts that their consumers can maintain their style and  “SWAG,” without having to keep pulling the jeans during everyday activity. VIDEO: “Our patented concept […]

A group of protesters from the NAACP stood outside the U.S. Airways ticket counter at the San Francisco International Airport Monday, demanding  justice for Deshon Marman. Marman was arrested in the San Francisco International Airport last month after refusing to exit a U.S. Airways plane over his “saggy” jeans. The charges were later dropped after […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Prosecutors said Wednesday they will not file charges against a University of New Mexico football player who was arrested after wearing saggy pants on a plane at San Francisco airport. LINK: College Football Player Kicked Off Plane For Wearing Saggy Pants LINK: Video Released Of Athlete Kicked Off Plane For Sagging Pants […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Days before a college football player was arrested on a US Airways flight at San Francisco airport following a dispute over his saggy pants, the airline allowed another man wearing skimpy women’s panties and mid-thigh stockings to fly, according to a passenger and airline spokeswoman. LINK: College Football Player Kicked Off Plane, […]

SAN FRANCISCO  — A University of New Mexico football player who was arrested after wearing saggy pants on a plane at San Francisco airport insists in a video showing part of his exchange with authorities on the aircraft that his pants were up and he had done nothing wrong. The San Francisco Chronicle obtained the […]

Deshon Marman, a University of New Mexico football player was arrested and cited for trespassing after he was asked to exit a plane over saggy pants at the San Francisco International Airport. Sgt. Michael Rodriguez says 20-year-old Deshon Marman was boarding a flight Wednesday to Albuquerque, N.M., when a U.S. Airways employee noticed his pants […]

Florida Governor Rick Scott is on the verge of signing a bill that will ban all Florida public school students from wearing baggy, sagging pants in which underwear is shown. The bill, which was just passed by the Senate and House of Representatives, also bans pants that expose “body parts in an indecent or vulgar […]