The walls are covered with photographs of Geoffrey Fieger. Testifying at the New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church.Stand at the corner of Lillibridge Street and Mack Avenue and walk a mile in each direction from Alter Road to Gratiot Avenue (pronounced Gra-shit). Were going to pull people over for traffic violations and were going to take their cars if theyre not legal. On the morning of May 16, a Detroit police officer fatally shot 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones in the throat during a police raid on her home. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. They turned on the lights and saw that she had been shot.. A half-dozen masked officers of the Special Response TeamDetroits version of SWATwere at the door, guns drawn. He looked at Chauncey Owens the wrong way, detectives say. Then Evans own driver shot a man last October. On Friday, Hathaway dismissed a lesser second charge, of reckless use of a firearm. A total, unfortunate fuck-up.. No one can answer that fully. Listen on Apple Podcasts. That tape never aired, but it was used as evidence in Weekleys two trials for Aiyanas death. As Detroit led the nation in median income and homeownership, automation and foreign competition were forcing companies like Packard to shutter their doors. What killed Aiyana is what killed the people in New Orleans and the rider on the transit in Oakland, and thats police bullets and police arrogance and police cover-up, Jones lawyer said. A spokesman for the A &E program "The First 48" tells ABC News they had a camera crew along with the Detroit police when Aiyanna Jones was shot and killed during the execution of a search warrant to find a man wanted in connection with a murder. It was unlocked. This is not about policing, he said. Paramedics say it is routinely much longer. I think its one of the lowest things I have ever seen.. "[21][22], Mertilla Jones said she reached for her granddaughter when the grenade came through the window, not for the officer's gun, because the flash grenade had set the child on fire. Short answer: Yesand no. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. They were wondering if the Rust Belt cancer had metastasized and was creeping to Los Angeles and London and Barcelona. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. The Detroit City Council needs to approve the settlement. I also found that the police and judicial systems were so broken that in more than 70 percent of murders, the killer got away with it. Evans was fired. Aiyana Jones was a seven year old girl living in Detroit, who was killed by the police while sleeping in her own home. If youre a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.. "Aiyana's death was a tragic loss for her family and has been a heavy burden on our community. Thats five times as many as New York, in a city one-tenth the size. "I want to say to the entire Jones family, Aiyana's loved ones and friends, how terribly sorry I am for your loss. It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder. There are some 10,000 unsolved homicides dating back to 1960. The department was also cited for excessive force after people died in lockup and at the hands of rogue cops. 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. Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she slept on a couch in a Detroit home in 2010. . Theyd not been tabulated for four years. The slap caused the gun to fire with the bullets striking young Aiyana in the head and killing her instantly. 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 silent suffering.. It would be easy to lay the blame on McNeal for the circumstances in which she raised her sons. Huff and his partner were not actually called to the scene; theyd taken it upon themselves to assist the younger cops, according to the police version of events. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. School wasnt a priority. That year, the police said there were 306 homicidesuntil I began digging. For Aiyana, it's the irony of the portrait circulating the Web: The smiling 7-year-old in her freshest plaits and multicolored barrettes, literally surrounded by a trifecta of white Disney princesses-blonde Cinderella, brunette Snow White and redhead Ariel, the Little Mermaid. [9][10] The environment didnt affect us none, Jones said. [2], After the shot was fired, Weekley reported to his sergeant that a woman inside had grabbed for his gun. It is like that all over Detroit, where whole blocks regularly go dark with no warning or any apparent pattern. Henry Ford built his first automobile assembly-line plant in Highland Park in 1908 on the east side of Woodward Avenue, the thoroughfare that divides the east of Detroit from the west. Inside the lower unit of a duplex halfway down the gloomy street, Charles Jones, 25, was pacing, unable to sleep. The civil rights lawsuit, which alleges officers attempted to cover-up how Aiyana Stanley-Jones was killed, names Officer Joseph Weekley, Robert Rowe, the Detroit Police Department, and the city . The bullet struck Aiyana killing her. I left McNeals porch and started my car. Al Sharpton spoke her eulogy. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. The Packard plant, where we came across this fashion shoot, has been smoldering for decades.In any case, Detroit began its long precipitous decline during the 1950s, precisely when the cityand the United Stateswas at its peak. The city provided clothing, fuel, rent, and $10 every week to adults for food; children got $5. Robert Bobb was hired in 2009 as the emergency financial manager and given sweeping powers to balance the books. DETROITS EAST SIDE is now the poorest, most violent quarter of Americas poorest, most violent big city. "It's irking me so bad," Cargill said. That house, too, is on the citys East Side, a nondescript brick duplex with a crumbling garage whose driveway funnels into busy Schoenherr Road. The landlord of the duplex, Edward Taylor, let me into the Jones apartment. If such a thing could be true, Chaises neighborhood is worse than JeReans. [51] She was buried on the grounds. Another cruiser with two officers responded as well. 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. Weekley stated, "A woman inside grabbed my gun. Seven-year-old Aiyana Jones was asleep on the living room sofa in her family's apartment when Detroit police searching for a homicide suspect burst in and an officer's gun went off, fatally . (Thomas Sugrue, in his seminal book The Origins of the Urban Crisis, writes that residents in Detroits predominantly black lower East Side reported 206 rat bites in 1951 and 1952.). The crumbling houses still crumble. [12], According to press reports, police were on the scene by 12:40a.m. on Sunday, May 16, 2010. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was 7 years old when she was killed by a single bullet to the head. There are no fewer than two TV dramas, two documentaries, and three reality programs being filmed here. His motive, authorities say, was that the teen failed to pay him the proper respect. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket.. Its going to stop, he promised. Cargill said her two surviving children, a 30-year-old daughter and son, 22, took the news of Jones' pending release hard. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? 1:46 Detroit After nearly five years, the officer who accidentally killed 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones during a raid being filmed by a TV camera crew has been restored to active duty as a. The city filled with people from all over the world: Arabs, Appalachians, Poles, African Americans, all in their separate neighborhoods surrounding the factories. One ran off. A retrial began on September 23, 2014 but on October 3, 2014, it was declared a mistrial after a second jury deadlocked on a verdict. The mortician charged $700 for the most basic viewing casket, even though the body was to be cremated. Weekley, a member of an elite police unit, was the first officer through the door during a chaotic . Her body was transferred to the Wayne County morgue. In October, judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed a charge of involuntary manslaughter, citing a lack of evidence. They want to blame her parents and her aunt who is engaged to the murder suspect. I wouldnt wish this on nobody in the world. Like so many across the country, shes being evicted with no job and no place to go. Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones was asleep on the sofa when a police SWAT team hurled a flash-bang grenade into the apartment and smashed the front door down. What I find ironic is a friend of the punks released his video t. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley is accused of fatally shooting Aiyana during the raid that targeted a murder suspect. Soon, the air was the color of a filthy dishrag. Chauncey Owens, the uncle wanted on murder charges, was said to be going in and out of the house as normal and could have been apprehended during the day. I dont want no apology from no police. It is a matter of conditioning, Cargill later told me. A reality TV crew recorded the scene from the street. At its peak popularity, 810 fires were set in a three-day span. It was 2:40 in the afternoon on May 14 when JeRean went to the Motor City liquor store and ice-cream stand to get himself an orange juice to wash down his McDonalds. Lord Jesus, I ain't never seen nothing like that in my life."--Mertilla Jones, Aiyana's grandmother. He is charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a. [2] Her death drew national media attention[3] and led U.S. Representative John Conyers to ask U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for a federal investigation into the incident. Protestors pleaded for the termination of Officer Weekley as he had been selected to co-chair the Detroit Police Department's Committee on Race and Equality. Weekley was the first officer to enter the home, seconds after a flashbang grenade a war device created by the British SAS in the 1960s to disorient with a blinding flash and a temporarily deafening noise was lobbed into it. Louis Miriani, the last Republican mayor of Detroit, who served from 1957 to 1962, was sent to federal prison for tax evasion when he couldnt explain how he made nearly a quarter of a million dollars on a reported salary of only $25,000. Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones (July 20, 2002 May 16, 2010) was a seven-year-old African-American girl from Detroit's East Side who was shot in the neck and killed by police officer Joseph Weekley during a raid conducted by the Detroit Police Department's Special Response Team targeting a suspect in the apartment a floor above Jones' on May 16, 2010. It's now Monday at 10:30pm. Blame the Federal Reserve. European intellectuals wondered at the whirl of building and spending in the new America. As it turns out, he was filming a pilot for his own reality show, entitled The Chief. Almost half of all adults are illiterate.Duncan may lie awake, but many civic leaders appear to walk around with their eyes sealed shut. From all indications it appears that police operation were flawed and heavily influenced by camera crews who were filming the raid for A&E's crime show "The First 48," according to a published report. "It bothers them," she said. By parental neglect? [56] A spokesman for city police demanded that Fieger share the tape's contents with Michigan State Police investigators. My daughter got love, honor, and respect. Wage growth is slowing. A bunch of lazy, uneducated blue-collar incompetents. But when you call for help, it seems like no ones there. Behind the door was Jason Gibson, 25, a violent man with a history of gun crimes, assaults on police, and repeated failures to honor probationary sentences. It would also help inspire the creation of the Black Lives Matter Movementthree years later. Jones broke down during testimony and had to be escorted out amid sobbing after addressing Weekley who was also in the courtroom directly. McNeal wondered how she was going to pay the $3,000 for her sons funeral. He didn't elaborate. Outside, Television was watching them. Its about state-sanctioned violence., US police departments are increasingly militarised, finds report, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The whole country knew it, and the whole country laughed. Danny Wilcox Frazier is a contributing photographer for Mother Jones. The day I visited, a Hollywood starlet (PDF) was tailing the doctor, studying for her role as the medical examiner in ABCs new Detroit-based murder drama Detroit 1-8-7. Were taking whats left.. The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. [6][7][8] The number was actually 375. I am sick as hell. Suddenly, Detroit was historic, symbolichip, even. 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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. By elite officers who burst through the chest with Lil James gun were wondering if the Rust cancer! That it burned her blanket.. Its going to pull people over for traffic violations and were going to people! James gun pitch in a city one-tenth the size filmed here to press reports, police on..., '' Cargill said of an elite police unit, was pacing, unable to sleep fuck-up.. no can! Irking me so bad, '' Cargill said her two surviving children, a daughter. 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