The president of the school board, Otis Mathis, recently admitted that he had only rudimentary writing skills shortly before being forced to resign for fondling himself during a meeting with the school superintendent. They went hog wild. The madness has to stop, he said. Do you got a problem or something? One year after a Detroit police assault team shot 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones to death in her home while A&E's "First 48" TV show was filming, neither Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy nor U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has brought charges against those responsible. A reality TV crew recorded the scene from the street. The bullet hit a child. Owens sped two blocks back to Lillibridge and gathered up a posse, according to his statement to the police. What does the science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic? The smell was beastly. Its police disinformation.. They had time, a Detroit police detective told me. I asked him if the way he was raising his daughter, the people he exposed her to, or the neighborhood where they livedwith its decaying houses and liquor storesmay have played a role. You dont go into a home around midnight. Thats a hell of a pair of bookends, I offered. About 350 people are murdered each year in Detroit. May 16, 2010, 7-year-old Aiyana was asleep on her couch, wrapped in her Hannah Montana blanket. Go ahead, walk in the Detroit River and disappear. But I cant. It was Jameson who finally dragged Huff out of the house and gave him CPR in the driveway, across the street from the Boys & Girls Club. Why you looking at me? said Owens, getting off the moped. Final charges against Joseph Weekley, a police officer who shot dead a 7-year-old girl, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in Detroit in May 2010, were dismissed on Friday, leaving a family bereft and raising serious concern among national groups over an increasingly militarized police force. The Kilpatrick scandal, combined with the murder rate, spurred the newly elected mayor, Dave Bingan NBA Hall of Famerto fire Police Chief James Barrens last year and replace him with Warren Evans, the Wayne County sheriff. and Weekley for the unlawful use of excessive force. 20072023 Blackpast.org. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. It would be easy to lay the blame on McNeal for the circumstances in which she raised her sons. Until there wasnt. [12], According to press reports, police were on the scene by 12:40a.m. on Sunday, May 16, 2010. Plus, grenades are rarely used when rounding up suspects, even murder suspects. Uncategorized. The radio was tuned to NPR and A Prairie Home Companion came warbling out of my speakers. Sharptons people called JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, promising to come over to her house after Aiyanas funeral. Aiyana was buried in a white casket which was driven to her grave site by a horse-drawn carriage. The red halo around his skull gave the scene a feeling of serenity. Seven-year-old Aiyana Jones was sleeping on the couch next to her grandmother in their Detroit, Michigan home when a SWAT team threw a flashbang through the window, which landed on her blanket. For instance, in 2008 a man was shot in the head. ], My baby, my baby, my baby. 91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 Flint. By police incompetence? Detroit grew restless. 91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids I went to see Fieger to ask him to show me the tape. She refused to let me see the original paper file, despite the fact that it is a public record, and has said that she cant comment on the case because she might preside in the trial against Gibson. The man stopped, turned, and pulled a gun. But the SWAT team didnt wait. You might point to the trade agreements of the Clinton years, which allowed American manufacturers to leave the country by the back door. Im worried they went Hollywood, said a high-ranking Detroit police official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the investigation and simmering resentment in the streets. He admitted in his first trial that, "It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl. The day Barrens cleaned out his desk, a burglar cleaned out Barrens house. The department decided to withdraw him from active duty shortly after the shooting on May 16, 2010. They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. On May 14, 2010, JeRean Blake, a senior at Southeastern High School of Technology and Law was shot and killed near an intersection on Detroits east side. First published on January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM. People are drinking. Its going to stop, he promised. Much of the firefighters equipment was substandard: Their boots had holes; they were alerted to fires by fax from the central office. 1894 shipwreck found in Lake Huron, confirming "powerful, tragic story", Garland to face Congress amid ongoing special counsel investigations, FBI chief says agency feels pandemic likely started with Chinese lab leak. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. He is charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a. Jones, too, later became a person of interest in JeReans murderhe allegedly went along for the ridebut Jones denies it, and hes lawyered up and moved to the suburbs. The accident has led to outrage in Detroit, directed at police. "They said he'll be on parole until 2030, and he or his family can't be around my family. Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley Jones (July 20, 2002 - May 16, 2010), was a seven-year-old girl from the East Side of Detroit, Michigan who was shot and killed during a raid conducted by the Detroit Police Department's Special Response Team on May 16, 2010. With Chief Evans vacationing overseas with a subordinate, Fieger ran wild, holding a press conference where he claimed he had seen videotape of Officer Weekley firing into the house from the porch. Gibson is a tall, thick-necked man who, like the character Omar from The Wire, made his living robbing dope houses. So bad is the rivalry that when the schools face off to play football or basketball, spectators from the visiting team are banned. There are some 10,000 unsolved homicides dating back to 1960. God, dont take my baby.. The problem once the police start amassing these kinds of weapons and tools and absorb a certain mentality, is it just increases the probability that they are going to deploy it even when not warranted, Edwards says. I have . By 1958, 20 percent of the Detroit workforce was jobless. Besides, there was always a job in America when you needed one. Still, as the American middle class collapses, its worth perhaps remembering that the East Side of Detroitthe place where Aiyana, JeRean, and Officer Huff all diedwas once its industrial cradle. That year, the police said there were 306 homicidesuntil I began digging. Aiyana Stanley-Jones, pictured in family photograph. According to the police, Officer Joseph Weekley was the first police officer to enter the home. "[42][43] Two trials against Officer Joseph Weekley ended without verdicts on a charge of reckless use of a gun. Then eight, then eleven. His motive, authorities say, was that the teen failed to pay him the proper respect. You might say that the homicide of Aiyana is the natural conclusion to the disease from which she suffered, Schmidt told me. Folks want to blame Aiyana's "crime ridden" neighborhood for her death. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was 7 years old when she was killed by a single bullet to the head. But he doesnt return my calls. WHat actually happened to this little girl? We believe some of them were struck by friendly fire, the high-ranking cop told me. When we look at accountability and an institution that was not designed for black people and that was not designed in the interest of black people, he says, how do you find justice in an already unjust system?. The blood was congealing into a pancake on the dirty linoleum. Specifically, since 1997 a 1033 program has enabled the transferring of billions of dollars worth of military equipment from the Department of Defense including mine-resistant protected vehicles originally developed by the South African defence force to thousands of small American communities. 42,200. Danny Wilcox Frazier is a contributing photographer for Mother Jones. Jurors will get instructions from a judge and then start deliberations in the trial of a Detroit police officer charged in the fatal shooting of a, The re-trial of a Detroit police officer who killed a young girl during a May 2010 raid began Thursday.No one disputes that Officer Joseph Weekley shot, A jury is deciding whether a Detroit police officer is guilty of a misdemeanor for causing the death of a little girl in 2010.No one disputes that Office, LGBTQ+ youth are less likely to feel depressed with parental support, study says, House elections committee considers election security bills, Federal judge: Flint missed deadline for lead line replacements; must complete work by August. David Corn, Noah Lanard, and Dan Friedman. Moreover, the Detroit public school system is the worst performer in the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests, with nearly 80 percent of eighth-graders unable to do basic math. Not even you.. Unclaimed bodies at the Wayne County MorgueTHE RAID ON THE Lillibridge house that took little Aiyanas life came two weeks and at least a dozen homicides after the last time police stormed into a Detroit home. [49], Aiyana Jones' funeral was held in the Second Ebenezer Church on May 22, 2010 in Detroit. Im trying to find him, Sheffield complained. Were going to pull people over for traffic violations and were going to take their cars if theyre not legal. The little girl in the video was based on a true story, according to MTV.com. WAS IT SO SIMPLE? Sharptons full of shit, said JeReans mother. Answer (1 of 77): A couple of punks confronted an unarmed black man with guns. Weekley, 38, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death, a misdemeanor in the death of Aiyana. 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Cole dedicates video to dead 7-year-old girl", "J. Cole Dedicates 'Crooked Smile' Video To Slain 7-Year-Old Girl", "The 6th Anniversary of the Aiyana Jones Death", "Rally marks 2010 death of Aiyana in police raid", "Six arrested during rally honoring Aiyana Stanley-Jones", Joe "Brain" Weekley's webpage at A&E: Meet the SWAT Teams, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Killing_of_Aiyana_Jones&oldid=1139956467, This page was last edited on 17 February 2023, at 18:19. And America is buying. What occurred next has been disputed by police officers, bystanders, and neighboring residents. I began to get calls from reporters around the world wondering what Detroit was like, what was happening here. A slender, pimply faced kid, JeRean was not an intimidating figure. They killed a child and then they lied about it.. All Rights Reserved. She said she made no contact with any officers. [54][55], Attorney Fieger claimed that footage, from an undisclosed source, showed that the lethal bullet came from outside the home, rather than inside, as police said. On April 4, 2019, Aiyanas family settled with Detroit for $8.25 million. Weekley claimed Aiyana Jones' paternal grandmother, Mertilla Jones, attempted to slap his MP5 submachine gun, causing it to fire. The home was the target of a midnight Swat-style operation designed to arrest her uncle who was living in the apartment upstairs and was the main suspect in the murder of a teenager a couple days before. The judge said she's willing to be the "scapegoat" if critics don't like the result. [CHECK OUT A SLIDESHOW OF ABANDONED HOUSES ON ONE BLOCK IN DETROIT]I keep calling about these falling-down houses, but the city never comes, she said. [12] Owens was in the upstairs apartment. Southeasterns motto is Age Quod Agis: Attend to Your Business. And JeRean did. The fire department is little better. Weekley doesnt have to pay but the family that lost a child has to pay, said Ron Scott, a spokesman for the family, shortly after attending the dismissal hearing. Jones was arrested, and though she was quickly released it was not before she and two other family members Aiyanas parents had been forced to sit in their childs blood for hours, Scott said. Bagpipes played and the rain fell. They were restless and agitated and pulled at the collars of dress blues that didnt seem to fit. She was seven years old. Lord Jesus, I ain't never seen nothing like that in my life."--Mertilla Jones, Aiyana's grandmother. I get no sleep. Another cruiser with two officers responded as well. His work has appeared in Time, Life, and Newsweek. You will count 34 churches, a dozen liquor stores, six beauty salons and barber shops, a funeral parlor, a sprawling Chrysler engine and assembly complex working at less than half-capacity, and three dollar storesbut no grocery stores. Oh, stay your ass right here, Owens growled. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was seven years old and asleep on a couch with her grandmother when Detroit police raided their east side home looking for a murder suspect in 2010. In an attempt to distract the occupants, police fired a flash grenade through the front window of the lower apartment, where Aiyana Jones was sleeping. Even in Detroit, a predominantly black city. Murder suspect Chauncey Louis Owens, the target of the raid, will be charged. IT WAS JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on the morning of May 16 and the neighbors say the streetlights were out on Lillibridge Street. Her body was transferred to the Wayne County morgue. The streetlights still go on and off. She got pregnant at 15. [38] Hes from New York. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. "He has completed various programming and is active in vocational training. The story rated three paragraphs in the daily papers, and the media never followed up. The psychopathology of growing up in Detroit, he said. [41][44][45][46] Because of Mertilla Jones's outburst, the judge stopped the trial until September 29. Twenty-five-year-old Charles Jones had just gone to bed after covering his 7-year-old daughter Aiyana with her favorite blanket. Mertilla Jones, 46, and her grandaughter, Aiyana Jones, 7, were asleep on a couch in their lower flat's front room at about 12:30 a.m. when police tossed an incendiary stun grenade through the window directly above the couch. It fired. Forget about it. [12] She was one of three children of the couple and had four halfsiblings. . I stared through the windshield at the little boy in the diaper playing amid the ruins, reached over, and switched it off. One man, who wanted to turn himself in for a murder, gave up trying to call the Detroit police; he drove to Ohio and turned himself in there. By civic malfeasance? More than 4,000 people attended Officer Huffs funeral at the Greater Grace Temple on the citys Northwest Side. [11], On May 14, 2010, Southeastern High School senior Je'Rean Blake[12][13][14] was shot and killed near the intersection of Mack and Beniteau streets on Detroit's east side. I cant heal properly because of it. It was 12:40 am on Sunday, May 16, 2010. Parts of the Detroit River are now clean enough for swimming. One question that lurked behind the scenes of the Aiyana Jones trial was whether the fact that producers from A&E's 'The First 48' played any role in what happened the night Aiyana died. Owens switched his moped for a Chevy Blazer. The individual being sought at the multi-family dwelling was a suspect in a murder that took place at about 3:00 p.m. the previous Friday. Lyvonne Cargill wears a shirt that honors her son, JeRean Blake Nobles. It's hurting me. While other American metropolises have gotten control of their murder rate, Detroits remains where it was during the crack epidemic. I dont want no apology from no police. The Rev. [65][unreliable source?] It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder suspect after throwing a flash grenade to confuse anyone inside. In 2010 Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, a seven-year-old African American girl, was accidentally shot and killed during a raid that was conducted by the Detroit, Michigan Police Department's Special Response Team. Evans driver dropped him with a single shot. Tens of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands. Neighbor Paul Jameson, a former soldier whose wife had called in the break-in to 911, said the rookies ran toward the house and opened fire after Huff was shot. The environment got nothing to do with kids.. The city filled with people from all over the world: Arabs, Appalachians, Poles, African Americans, all in their separate neighborhoods surrounding the factories. On May 14, 2010, Jones handed a .357 magnum pistol to his friend Chauncey Owens, who gunned down Cargill's son, 17-year-old Je'Rean Blake, outside the Motor City Marketplace on Mack at St. Jean on Detroit's east side. [15], The building was a duplex; Owens's girlfriend LaKrysta Sanders lived in the upstairs apartment, while her mother and Aiyana Jones' grandmother, Mertilla Jones, lived in the downstairs apartment. Newspapers made little of ituntil the US Attorney revealed that the federal monitor of the decree was having an affair with the priapic mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was forced to resign, and now sits in prison convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. To avoid the embarrassment of being the nations perpetual murder capital, the police department took to cooking the homicide statistics, reclassifying murders as other crimes or incidents. Thats how its supposed to be done.. (And that statistic is true; I checked.). An 11th-grade dropout and convicted robber, he said he supported his seven children with a little this, a little thatI got a few tricks and trades.. Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. Coco Jones has lived many lives. [CLICK HERE FOR CHARLIE LEDUFFS EXPOSE ON THE DETROIT AMBULANCE SYSTEM. [25], Chauncey Owens, the suspect who the raid was intended to apprehend and boyfriend of Aiyana's aunt LaKrystal Sanders,[26] was found in the upper-floor apartment of the duplex and surrendered without incident. Detroit demolishes only 500 homes a year, thanks to concerns over lawsuits and environmental hazards, as well as lack of funds and ineptitude. 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