DETROIT — The state of Michigan has filed discrimination charges against the Grand Rapids Police Department in two separate cases, while continuing to investigate more than two dozen other complaints against the department.
At a Monday press conference in downtown Grand Rapids, the Michigan Department of Civil Rights publicly presented the charges, which were first announced last week. The complaints will be heard by an administrative judge.
The latest allegation of discrimination came as the city of Grand Rapids and its police force find themselves under fire over the police killing of 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya and years of community complaints of bias within the department of Michigan's second most populous city.
