GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The city of Grand Rapids will pay $285,000 to the family of Honestie Hodges, who was handcuffed at 11-years-old while Grand Rapids police were looking for a domestic assault suspect.
Hodges died at 14-years-old from complications from COVID-19 in 2020.
The city has agreed to the payment to settle the family’s federal lawsuit over Honestie being handcuffed, held at gunpoint, and put into a police cruiser.
The girl’s family says she “suffered serious mental anguish, anxiety, emotional distress, a sense of outrage, loss of social pleasure and enjoyment, and death” from the 2017 incident with police.
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