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Michigan police under fire for cuffing 11-year-old girl, holding her at gunpoint
by Corky Siemaszko
A suspect being chased by a team of Michigan police officers last week was a potentially dangerous 40-year-old white woman wanted in connection with a stabbing.
But the person they cuffed at gunpoint and placed into the back seat of a squad car was a terrified 11-year-old black girl named Honestie Hodges.
Now those Grand Rapids police officers are the subjects of an internal investigation into their alleged heavy-handed tactics and the girls mother is hopping mad.
"The whole time they are telling her to come down, Im telling them, 'Shes an 11-year-old, thats my daughter, dont cuff her,'" mom Whitney Hodges told local NBC affiliate WOOD...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...fire-cuffing-11-year-old-girl-holding-n829521
by Corky Siemaszko
A suspect being chased by a team of Michigan police officers last week was a potentially dangerous 40-year-old white woman wanted in connection with a stabbing.
But the person they cuffed at gunpoint and placed into the back seat of a squad car was a terrified 11-year-old black girl named Honestie Hodges.
Now those Grand Rapids police officers are the subjects of an internal investigation into their alleged heavy-handed tactics and the girls mother is hopping mad.
"The whole time they are telling her to come down, Im telling them, 'Shes an 11-year-old, thats my daughter, dont cuff her,'" mom Whitney Hodges told local NBC affiliate WOOD...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...fire-cuffing-11-year-old-girl-holding-n829521
