GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — GR Rapid Response to ICE—a local activist organization that says it engages in peaceful, defensive work to protect immigrants from federal agents—is accusing the Grand Rapids Police Department (GRPD) of “unjustly arresting” two of its members Tuesday outside what it says is an Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) office off of Ottawa Avenue.
In a Facebook post, the group says the two arrested were “peacefully following ICE vehicles to support [a person who was] targeted.”
13 ON YOUR SIDE spoke to GRPD Chief Eric Winstrom—who confirmed that there are federal offices where the pair was arrested—to better understand his department’s side of the story…