*** Police terror is not the exception, it is the rule.
**** December 6th, 2018 OFFENSE: Being 11 year old black girl
**** March 17th, 2019 OFFENSE: Driving while black
**** March 11th, 2019 OFFENSE: Walking on the street while Latino
**** November 21st, 2019 OFFENSE: Being a Latino veteran
*** In March of 2019 the Michigan Department of Civil Rights conducted a hearing on repeated incidents of abuse by officers of the GRPD. The hearing had a variety of speakers who gave their experiences with injustice perpetuated on them by the GRPD. The Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy reported the statements, they published the following: