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Honestie Hodges

2006–2020

United States

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Honestie Hodges (November 9, 2006 – November 22, 2020) was an African-American teenager from Grand Rapids, Michigan, whose 2017 handcuffing at gunpoint by the Grand Rapids Police Department led to that Department introducing the "Honestie Policy", a Youth Interactions Policy to protect other children from police brutality.

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