An outraged mother expresses herself at a community meeting in response to her innocent child being held at gunpoint by officers.
As the Free Thought Project reported last week, original video of the incident, taken from far away, shows a number of Grand Rapids Police Department patrol cars descend on the scene, as officers point loaded weapons at the youths, order them to the ground, and eventually place them each in handcuffs — after a vague call to dispatch suggested a large fight in the area, and the possibility a teen was in possession of a gun.
None of the young teens in question were armed.
"Now they're saying they don't like the police," Ikeshia Quinn, mother of two of the teens, told WOOD-TV — intimating the boys did not feel ambivalent toward law enforcement until this traumatic incident. "They don't want to be involved with the police. They should've been approached differently because they are young boys. They had basketballs in their hands."
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