They were wondering if the Rust Belt cancer had metastasized and was creeping to Los Angeles and London and Barcelona. 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. Young Municipal Center in Detroit. A reality TV crew recorded the scene from the street. They were conducting a police raid in search of a. Weekley, 38, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death, a misdemeanor in the death of Aiyana. It went straight through the childs head. These girls are the lucky ones. Its now just another abandoned house in Detroit.. 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. No Glue or Lace Hiring Black Folks. The slap caused the gun to fire with the bullets striking young Aiyana in the head and killing her instantly. These Wigs Install in Seconds. He had been married eight years and had three daughters and a stepson. In fact, there are no chain grocery stores in all of Detroit. According to the police, Officer Joseph Weekley was the first police officer to enter the home. 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. Killing of Aiyana Jones. In Detroit, the official response time of an ambulance to a 911 call is 12 minutes. But Geoffrey Fieger calls it police arrogance. Almost half of all adults are illiterate.Duncan may lie awake, but many civic leaders appear to walk around with their eyes sealed shut. 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. But defense attorney Steve Fishman says Jones has no credibility because she's told different stories about what happened. A fresh trial was scheduled for December 2013,[29] but actually began in September 2014. Mertilla Jones was held overnight by Detroit police and then released. The bullet struck Aiyana killing her. The police were . Impoverished communities such as Detroit, which is almost 83% black and has a poverty rate of 39%, have been on the receiving end of a decades-long war on drugs, which has made the US the country with the largest number of people behind bars, ahead of China and Russia. Blame the Federal Reserve. She arrived too late. In October, judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed a charge of involuntary manslaughter, citing a lack of evidence. 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. Do you got a problem or something? He looked at Chauncey Owens the wrong way, detectives say. Weekley claimed after he got through the front door that Joness paternal grandmother, Mertilla Jones, attempted to slap away the MP 5 submachine gun that he was holding. There are lawyers and doctors and auto executives with nice homes and good jobs, community elders trying to make things better, teachers who spend their own money on classroom supplies, people who mow lawns out of respect for the dead, parents who raise their children, ministers who help with funeral expenses. Sharptons full of shit, said Cargill, a brassy 39-year-old who works as a stock clerk at Target. May 16, 2010, 7-year-old Aiyana was asleep on her couch, wrapped in her Hannah Montana blanket. Two years later he was sentenced to an additional 12 months for violating . On a hot afternoon around one Mothers Day, I was working in the back greenhouse. Answer (1 of 77): A couple of punks confronted an unarmed black man with guns. If youre a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.. As a reporter at the Detroit News, I get plenty of phone calls from people in the neighborhoods. [34][35], Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. In the end, Gibson was charged with Huffs murder and the attempted murders of four more officers. The fire department is little better. Police arrested Mertilla, administered tests for drugs and gunpowder, and released her Sunday morning. Were here today not to find blame, but to find out how we never have to come here again, said Sharpton, standing in the grand pulpit. 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. The family of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was murdered by Detroit police more than two years ago, is still waiting for justice. African American History: Research Guides & Websites, Global African History: Research Guides & Websites, African American Scientists and Technicians of the Manhattan Project, Envoys, Diplomatic Ministers, & Ambassadors, Foundation, Organization, and Corporate Supporters. 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. Until there wasnt. [24] Geoffrey Fieger, the family's lawyer, said the police fired the shot that struck Aiyana from outside the home, possibly through the open front door. Sherrors mom, in white, lost another son to a bullet the previous year. 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. The streetlights still go on and 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. Two days later, a crew from the Detroit Police Special Response Team raided Jones' house on Lillibridge Street, blocks from the store. [66] On July 20, 2016 Detroit police arrested six unknown individuals for chaining themselves to a precinct of the Detroit Police Department, their protest honoring Jones. The change to "Murder of Aiyana Jones" may have been disputed for good reason, but the current one is both neutral and standard (see Death of Ian Tomlinson). Within seconds, Weekleyfired hisMP5 rifle, killingAiyana, who was sleeping on the living room couch with her grandmother Mertilla Jones. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. I have . He was charged twice with involuntary manslaughter, but both cases ended in mistrials. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. He gives details of the way streets look like at night, and gives a captivating detail of girl's father suffering from insomnia. But our ammos so bad, we cant do ballistics testing. A good kid who showed neighborhood children how to work electric clippers, his dream was to open a barbershop. [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. It means uncertainty and abandonment and psychopathology. 20072023 Blackpast.org. 91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids Paramedics say it is routinely much longer. 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 car made Detroit, and the car unmade Detroit. The manslaughter trial was declared a mistrial. And America is buying. "He has completed various programming and is active in vocational training. But McNeal messed upshe admits as much. Cargill said because of COVID-19 restrictions, she was unable to attend Jones' parole hearings to contest his release. I would have waited until the morning when the guy went to the liquor store to buy a quart of milk. And there are. After the grandmother's outburst, the judge ordered the jury out of the room and the grandmother was escorted from the court room screaming. [12][17][18] Officer Weekley claimed that the flash grenade subsequently blinded his view of the person on the couch in the living room. What the fuck do you think? he said. Now Detroit has fewer than 800,000 people, is 83 percent black, and is the only American city that has surpassed a million people and dipped back below that threshold. I saw the tape and wrote about its existence after the killing of Aiyana, but the story went nowhere until two months later, when someone in City Hall leaked a copy to the local ABC affiliate. "[42][43] An investigation was promised. During the second trial, Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed the most serious charge, involuntary manslaughter, saying there was insufficient evidence. 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. The city filled with people from all over the world: Arabs, Appalachians, Poles, African Americans, all in their separate neighborhoods surrounding the factories. 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. Sharptons full of shit, said JeReans mother. Aiyana Jones was 7 when she was killed in a police raid. 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. Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway address the court on Friday. War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing. As the black population grew, so did black frustration over poor housing and rock-fisted police. Thats how its supposed to be done.. You might say that the homicide of Aiyana is the natural conclusion to the disease from which she suffered, Schmidt told me. The death of Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones helped increased national awareness of the ongoing issue of unarmed Black Americans being killed by police. The police have been working under a federal consent decree since a 2003 investigation found that detectives were locking up murder witnesses for days on end, without access to a lawyer, until they coughed up a name. [41] Except there aint no job. Seconds after entering the house, where the grenade had caused Aiyanas blanket to catch fire, Weekley fired one fatal shot. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter and "negligent firing of a weapon causing death". "My sugar is going up from stress. [12] She was one of three children of the couple and had four halfsiblings. About 350 people are murdered each year in Detroit. JeRean balled up his tiny fist. A bunch of lazy, uneducated blue-collar incompetents. The mortician charged $700 for the most basic viewing casket, even though the body was to be cremated. A wary Detroit police officer keeps watch over an unruly crowd after an arrest on the East Side.The judge, Cynthia Gray Hathaway, set his bond at $20,000only 10 percent of which was due upfrontand adjourned the trial without explanation, according to the docket. You can blame it on the John Deere mechanical cotton-picker of 1950, which uprooted the sharecropper and sent him north looking for a livingwhere he found he was locked out of the factories by the unions. That night, she was murdered by the very people meant to "protect" and "serve" her. Robert Bobb was hired in 2009 as the emergency financial manager and given sweeping powers to balance the books. "I want to say to the entire Jones family, Aiyana's loved ones and friends, how terribly sorry I am for your loss. The crime most likely happened at the . Then Huff got killed. He won't be in the field. McNeal wondered how she was going to pay the $3,000 for her sons funeral. A small crowd of agitated black people was gathered on the sidewalk. DETROITS EAST SIDE is now the poorest, most violent quarter of Americas poorest, most violent big city. 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. Aiyana was killed when police raided a house to capture a murder suspect. Detroit has since made little progress on the federal consent decree. Capitol Commission moves toward firearm ban, Biden's student loan relief faces its biggest test yet at the Supreme Court, Jury to decide fate of Detroit cop who shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Second trial begins for Detroit police officer who shot Aiyana Jones, Detroit officer faces misdemeanor charge in Aiyana Jones's death; jury deliberating. Devils Night is no longer the big deal it used to be, topping out last year at around 65 arsons. It's hurting me. 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. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. However, the judge also said if Mertilla Jones and the other relatives continued to have outbursts on the stand, then she would declare a mistrial. Sheffield came to see Cargill. His work has appeared in Time, Life, and Newsweek. [12], According to press reports, police were on the scene by 12:40a.m. on Sunday, May 16, 2010. There were even toys on the lawn. [20] He pushed his way inside, protected by a ballistic shield. 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 as defendants. The case garnered national headlines for all of the obvious reasons: an innocent child caught in police crosshairs, another black life taken in a city filled with heartache. The water in the Detroit River was so bad, it was said you could bottle it and sell it as poison. 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. He admitted in his first trial that, "It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl. [19], Police officers, bystanders, and residents of the home disagreed about the events that followed. He gave her $800 for funeral costs. Its police disinformation.. Sometimes they come in a Crown Victoria with only a defibrillator and a blanket, because there are no other units available. The family is seeking $7.5 million in damages and a jury trial conceded by the court filing. I got something for you.. He came here for publicity. In 2007, he attacked a cop and tried to take his gun. A dollhouse sits in an empty lot not far from where Aiyana was shot by the police officers storming her home.It was a total fuck-up, the official said. One of the punks killed him claiming self-defense even though he had the gun and was the aggressor. Aiyana was sleeping on the couch next to her grandmother when, just after midnight, Officer Weekley's SWAT team threw a flashbang grenade through the living room window, setting fire to . They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. Now, Jones family attorney Geoffrey Fieger and the city of Detroit confirm theyve settled the case for $8.25 million. What the hell you doing up here for? Coco Jones has lived many lives. She had already cleared a space on the other end of the mantel for Chaises urn. One witness had him pegged for 13 years old. [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. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. The madness has to stop, he said. The flashbacks. When I was a teenager, my mother owned a struggling little flower shop on the East Side, not far from where Aiyana was killed. Forget what you saw, little man. "She's not a scapegoat. The raid happened early Sunday morning. Weekley left the courtroom through a private door. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. 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. As Officer Weekley wept on the sidewalk, Aiyana was rushed to the trauma table, where she was pronounced dead. / AP. [2], Weekley was a member of Detroit's SWAT team and a frequent subject on the A&E Network (A&E), whose film crews were also filming the investigation for the documentary TV series The First 48. Weekleys trial began in June 2013 and ended in a mistrial when a jury failed to reach a verdict. The Rev. Why you do this to me? We noticed you have an ad blocker on. "But I can tell you this: If anyone is looking for a scapegoat for justice, then you've got one here as owner, coach and quarterback. The department decided to withdraw him from active duty shortly after the shooting on May 16, 2010. Were going to pull people over for traffic violations and were going to take their cars if theyre not legal. There are some 10,000 unsolved homicides dating back to 1960. Forget about it. 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. 3) Weekley's claims that Mertilla Jones grabbed . [23] At Weekley's retrial in 2014, it was disclosed that Mertilla's fingerprints were not found on Weekley's gun. Like so many across the country, shes being evicted with no job and no place to go. "Aiyana's death was a tragic loss for her family and has been a heavy burden on our community. I need help. Terms of Service apply. He caught a lunch lady stealing the childrens milk money. In this current era, what she calls her "most confident" yet, she's channeling none other than her go-getter Bel-Air character Hilary Banks . The judge said she's willing to be the "scapegoat" if critics don't like the result. But JeRean never went to prom, much less the Afghanistan theater, because he couldnt clear the killing fields of Detroit. [48] On January 28, 2015, county prosecutor Kym Worthy dismissed the last remaining charge against Weekley, the misdemeanor of 'careless discharge of a firearm causing death'. 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. Dante Barry, a 26-year-old organizer and executive director of the Million Hoodies Movement for Justice, said the outcome of the case was disappointing but not surprising. Theyd not been tabulated for four years. They want to blame her parents and her aunt who is engaged to the murder suspect. But I cant accept it because they lied about it. "We had to do it by paperwork, and they read the letters from my side of the family (during the parole hearing)," Cargill said. It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder. Someone radioed in, and more police arrivedbut the official story of what happened that night has changed repeatedly. "[60], In September 2013, J. Cole published a music video dedicated to Jones for his song Crooked Smile, featuring TLC on YouTube. Tens of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands. Owens didn't like the way the Southeastern High School teen had looked at him, according to court testimony. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. Today75 years after the beavers disappeared from the Detroit RiverDetroitism means something completely different. 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. JeRean might have thought it was funny to see a grown man driving a moped. They still owe me rent, he said with a face about the Joneses. It all happened in a matter of seconds. The house on the other side is in much the same state. I am sick as hell. The conceit of the show is that homicide detectives have 48 hours to crack a murder case before the trail goes cold. They went hog wild. But the SWAT team didnt wait. By parental neglect? On January 28, 2015, a prosecutor cleared Weekley of the last remaining charge against him, ensuring there would not be a third trial. FEMAIL reveals what has happened to . Behind him stood two rookies. held a small rally in memory of Jones. 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. Both trials ended with hung juries. What the fuck you looking at?. On October 3, the judge, Cynthia Gray Hathaway, dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Weekley, leaving him on trial for only one charge: recklessly discharging a firearm. Casei Jones, 32, and her four children Cameron Bowers, 10, Preston Bowers, 5, Mercalli Jones, 2, and Aiyana Jones, 1, were missing for almost a month. WRSX 91.3 Port Huron is off the air due to network issues. A half-dozen masked officers of. A seven-year-old Black girl was fatally during a raid in Detroit, Michigan Police Department in 2010. Instead of being protected, communities are treated like the enemy, the report found with a disproportionate effect on communities of color. As for the videotape of the killing, Geoffrey Fieger said he did not have it. [11], The jury claimed that race did not affect the decision of their verdict. Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she slept on a couch in a Detroit home in 2010. The frightened black man attempted to save himself. JeReans crime? JeReans mother drove as he gurgled in the backseat. Owens, a habitual criminal, was arrested upstairs minutes after Aiyanas shooting and charged for the slaying of JeRean. The kids are dropping like fliesespecially young black malesand hes got nothing but useless words.. There are at least 50 corpses on hold in his morgue cooler, some unidentified, others whose next of kin are too poor to bury them. Not even you.. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was sleeping in her home on the east side of Detroit on the night of May 16, 2010, when officers barged into the house. [12] At the time of the incident Aiyana Jones was asleep on the couch in front room of the downstairs apartment. There are plenty of good people in Detroit, boosters like to say. 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 crumbling houses still crumble. His body was transferred to Dr. Schmidt and the Wayne County morgue. Fugitive in $18 million COVID fraud scheme extradited to U.S. ended without verdicts on a charge of reckless use of a gun. His partner took the rear entrance. Horace Sheffield, a local version of Sharpton, got stiffed for $4,000 in funeral costs, claiming Aiyanas father made off with the donations people gave to cover it. So there should have been a parade with confetti and tanks of lemonade, but instead, the complaints about overaggressive cops began to roll in. School wasnt a priority. We believe some of them were struck by friendly fire, the high-ranking cop told me. But I felt unraveling this one death could help diagnose what has gone wrong in this city, so I decided to retrace the events leading up to that pitiable moment on the porch on Lillibridge Street. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. Technicians are currently working on the problem. In August 2014, he was convicted and sentenced to a year in prison on four counts, including false imprisonment and felony cruelty to children. Outside court, a spokesman for Aiyana's family criticized the judge for her comments. The graduation rate for Detroit schoolkids hovers around 35 percent (PDF). Then Evans own driver shot a man last October. Me? 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. Furthermore, the police department and unnamed supervisors of the Special Response Team in the city of Detroit were being sued for violating the civil rights of Aiyana Jones through their training and policy procedure. She's irresponsible," said Ron Scott, referring to Hathaway's decision to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter charge before a jury at the second trial could consider it. Lord Jesus, I ain't never seen nothing like that in my life."--Mertilla Jones, Aiyana's grandmother. On October 10, the second trial ended in another mistrial. Dr. Death. His seven-year-old daughter, Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones (PDF), slept on the couch as her grandmother watched television. 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. 2023 www.detroitnews.com. And TV may have needed some pyrotechnics. The Rust Belt. After the fatal shooting, the video concludes with a message dedicated to Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a 7-year-old girl who was shot and killed during a police raid on her house in Detroit back in. [2], After a one-year internal and federal investigation, on October 4, 2011, a grand jury indicted Weekley on involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. Jones does not have a release date identified, although he could be freed as early as Thursday, Gautz said. You could blame it on the gas shocks of the 70s that opened the door to foreign car competition. Southeasterns motto is Age Quod Agis: Attend to Your Business. And JeRean did. They were looking for a murder suspect. 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