A Black woman held at gunpoint by a Minneapolis Parks police officer after finding out she was licensed to carry a firearm. The woman is finally speaking out about what happened, after three years she interviewed with Minneapolis ABC affiliate KTSP. Jenice Hodge talked about the July 2019 event where Officer Calvin Pham aimed his weapon at her and that cost the city $100,000.

Hodge talked about everything and what eventually led the city to award her a six-figure settlement. She said she believed “it was just going to be a regular routine stop.”

The officer’s bodycam video showed that from the start of their interaction there was conflict. Hodge asked the officer why she was being pulled over, and he said she had her phone in her hand and her seat belt wasn’t on.

“Yup, because I am using my GPS to drop my food off” she replied. The driver explained that her safety buckle was strapped in, her arm was placed over the portion intended to go across her breast.

Pham didn’t address her comments but asked for her driver’s license.

Hodge reached for her purse and set it on her lap between her chest and the steering wheel. As she went through her bag to find her wallet, she at the same time called her husband. While pulling her ID out to hand to the officer, he asks her to turn her vehicle off.

Hodge responded by asking why, Pham then draws his gun and pulls the door open, screams at her, and commands her to get the car.

A  Hodge tells her husband that the officer has pulled his gun on her.

The entire incident took place in less than 60 seconds.

“I didn’t even have my driver’s license out of the sleeve and I had a gun pointed at me,” she shared. “I was confused and scared. And I didn’t know what was going on.”

The video shows her with her hands out of the sunroof, but she would not leave her car. Pham kept telling her to get out of the car to no avail. So, he reaches in and grabs her purse, and throws it onto the ground.

Pham says, “Step out of the car, now. I will rip you out if you do not step out of the car now.”

“Why am I stepping out of the car?” she asks.

He adds, “Because I am giving you a lawful order to step out of the car.”

“Well, my attorney is on the phone,” she stated before telling the counsel that the officer threatened to touch her.

Things escalated even quicker after the woman told her husband where she was being pulled over and the officer called for backup. She relented and got out, and immediately the cop pushed face down her to the ground. Causing a confused Hodge to repeatedly ask why she must place her hands behind her back, “for what? for what?”

“What did I do to cause this reaction from him?” Hodge told KTSP.

Pham’s incident report of the July 12 read, “I observed a card in her wallet that appeared to be an MN PERMIT TO CARRY, which made me believe that JENICE may have a gun.”

Jenice confirmed to the station that she did have a permit to carry a weapon.

“You didn’t see a firearm, you didn’t ask if I had a firearm, you just reacted to something that you see in my wallet,” Hodge told the KTSP.

Pham said in his report, “I observed her hands reach into her purse. I observed her reach her hand behind her purse near her waistline and in between the seat and center console. I believe that JENICE was trying to conceal something or reaching for a weapon.”

Hodge filed a civil lawsuit and received a settlement of $100,000 from the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board last October. Pham resigned from the force a month after her award, KTSP reported.

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