GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The two unions representing the Grand Rapids Police Department say the agency doesn’t need to change its policy, despite calls by community members to do so after a five black teens were detained at gunpoint following a basketball game.
On March 24, the group of teenagers, ages 12 through 14, left the Salvation Army Kroc Center on South Division Avenue after playing basketball and headed home.
Around that time, the GRPD got a call about a fight involving 100 people who allegedly broke out at the Kroc. Responding officers were told that a teen walking with a group was armed with a gun. An officer determined the teens matched the description and ordered them face-down on the ground.
None of the teens were actually armed.
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