Michigan Police Launch Internal Investigation After Cops Handcuffed an 11-Year-Old Girl and Held Her at Gunpoint
LatestLocal NBC affiliate WOOD reported on Monday that the Grand Rapids Police Department had formally begun an internal investigation stemming from an incident earlier this month when 11-year-old Honestie Hodges was held at gunpoint by cops, handcuffed, and shoved into the back of a police cruiser.
On December 6, Hodges, who is black, was reportedly heading out of her home through its back door to go to the store when she was intercepted by cops, who were searching for Hodges’ aunt, Carrie Manning. Manning, a 40-year-old white woman, was wanted for allegedly stabbing her little sister a few blocks away, and was believed to be armed. At the time, the cops’ baffling excuse for arresting Hodges alongside her aunt was that they couldn’t rule out the possibility that she was a suspect and also armed.