GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — It was mid-December when police body camera video of 11-year-old Honestie Hodges’ arrest at gunpoint emerged.
Grand Rapids police were looking for a 40-year-old white woman considered a suspect in an attempted homicide; the girl they handcuffed as she left her Turner Avenue NW home was black.
Community outrage sparked by the video has generated proposed policy changes for the Grand Rapids Police Department, as well as discussions between groups that didn’t always talk.
Tuesday, GRPD Chief David Rahinsky updated city commissioners on the progress to prevent such incidents from happening again. He acknowledged that it’s been a challenge.
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