MI - Michigan police under fire for cuffing 11-year-old girl

[BetteDavisEyes]

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 girl’s mother is hopping mad.

"The whole time they are telling her to come down, I’m telling them, 'She’s an 11-year-old, that’s my daughter, don’t 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

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Video shows officers handcuffing a shrieking 11-year-old at gunpoint

Police were scouring a neighborhood in Grand Rapids, Mich., for a 40-year-old attempted murder suspect. Instead, in a moment that has cast a harsh spotlight on this western Michigan city, an officer found himself pointing his gun at — then handcuffing — a screeching 11-year-old girl.

The 45-second video clip from an officer’s body camera, made public by the city’s police department this week, was full of outrage-inducing elements: a petrified preteen who started shrieking when she heard the click of handcuffs; a police use of force with racial overtones; a law enforcement agency already criticized in March after an officer pointed a gun at black youth who had done nothing wrong...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-year-old-at-gunpoint/?utm_term=.7972e94d3560

 

[Jennifer17]

How terrifying for her.

 

[GuyfromCanada]

Found a sad update about this case.

Honestie Hodges, who was handcuffed outside her home in Michigan at age 11 in an incident that prompted national outrage, died on Sunday aged 14.

Her grandmother, Alisa Niemeyer, said in posts online the 14-year-old died from Covid-19.

Honestie Hodges, handcuffed in Michigan at 11, dies aged 14 of Covid