“I didn’t know what was going on,” Honestie told Grand Rapids Fox affiliate WXMI*after the incident. “I didn’t do anything wrong. I’ve never got in trouble by the Grand Rapids Police. I used to want to be a Grand Rapids police officer, but ever since that happened, I want nothing to do with them.”
katzgar (12-14-2017)
The suspect was white. The girl was black.
"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.
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ai...s-bias-n829661
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Phantasmal (12-14-2017)
countryboy (12-14-2017)
countryboy (12-14-2017)
cancel2 2022 (12-14-2017), TOP (12-14-2017)
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
She was leaving the house with two adults, not walking the streets alone. And there are plenty of articles with details; just put "Honestie Hodges" in your search engine and they'll come up.
Here's the problem with what the cops did. It's called racial profiling.
"The department has previously been criticized for its treatment of black children. In April, five black children between the ages of 12 and 14 were stopped by police at gunpoint on their way home after playing a game of basketball."
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Phantasmal (12-14-2017)
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