I think its abominable. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket. Dr. Death. 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. Bobb did uncover graft and fraud and waste, however. AS SUMMER DRAGGED on, the story of Aiyana faded from even the regional press. It is not protocol. 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. Sharptons full of shit, said Cargill, a brassy 39-year-old who works as a stock clerk at Target. Three ISO members describe what happened when a neo-Nazi . But he doesnt return my calls. They were restless and agitated and pulled at the collars of dress blues that didnt seem to fit. Southeasterns motto is Age Quod Agis: Attend to Your Business. And JeRean did. I cant heal properly because of it. While other American metropolises have gotten control of their murder rate, Detroits remains where it was during the crack epidemic. Sometimes they come in a Crown Victoria with only a defibrillator and a blanket, because there are no other units available. You should go, he said to me, shattering the silence with a wave of his hand. I was thinking that, she said with tears. 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. So is the house across the street. I mean, hiring the Rosa Parks carriage?, I dont owe Sheffield shit, says Jones. 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 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. But JeRean never went to prom, much less the Afghanistan theater, because he couldnt clear the killing fields of Detroit. But our ammos so bad, we cant do ballistics testing. I called the fire department to ask for its statistics. But I cant accept it because they lied about it. The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. It went straight through the childs head. I dont want no apology from no police. For instance, in 2008 a man was shot in the head. They turned on the lights and saw that she had been shot.. As a reporter at the Detroit News, I get plenty of phone calls from people in the neighborhoods. A minute later, a friend took the two dollars as a keepsake. Over the next 50 years, Detroits East Side would become the worlds machine shop, its factory floor. But is she responsible for police officers with broken computers in their squad cars, firefighters with holes in their boots, ambulances that arrive late, a city that cant keep its lights on and leaves its vacant buildings to the arsonists match, a state government that allows corpses to stack up in the morgue, multinational corporations that move away and leave poisoned fields behind, judges who let violent criminals walk the streets, school stewards who steal the childrens milk money, elected officials who loot the city, automobile executives who couldnt manage a grocery store, or Wall Street grifters who destroyed the economy and left the nations children with a burden of debt? First, it was six cops who responded to the 911 call. The fact is a police officer threw the flash grenade through the window of the house that landed on Aiyana's blanket . Six individuals, who chained themselves to a Detroit Police Department precinct, were arrested Wednesday evening during a rally honoring Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a 7-year old who was shot and. The Detroit Free Press has more details here. AIYANA WAS LAID TO REST six days after her killing. Inexplicably, its carcass still stands and burns incessantly. The conceit of the show is that homicide detectives have 48 hours to crack a murder case before the trail goes cold. The water in the Detroit River was so bad, it was said you could bottle it and sell it as poison. The city filled with people from all over the world: Arabs, Appalachians, Poles, African Americans, all in their separate neighborhoods surrounding the factories. Why you do this to me? She later went to nursing school but got sidetracked by her own health problems. Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, 7, died May 16, 2010 after being shot by an officer during a police raid in Detroit. The whole country knew it, and the whole country laughed. The day after Huff was killed, and under fire from the police for her leniency toward Gibson, Judge Hathaway went into the case file and made changes, according to notations made in the courts computerized docket system. When I was a teenager, my mother owned a struggling little flower shop on the East Side, not far from where Aiyana was killed. The raid happened early Sunday morning. Many are as fucked up and sad as Aiyanas. 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. [56] A spokesman for city police demanded that Fieger share the tape's contents with Michigan State Police investigators. [12], Two weeks prior to the incident, a Detroit police officer had been killed in the line of duty while attempting to arrest a suspect. Ive seen him in the faces of soldiers when I was covering the Iraq War. Weekley was transferred from the Special Response Team to the Criminal Investigations Bureau. The mortician charged $700 for the most basic viewing casket, even though the body was to be cremated. 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. [49], Aiyana Jones' funeral was held in the Second Ebenezer Church on May 22, 2010 in Detroit. Stanley suddenly emerged from her stupor: Whats that got to do with it? she hissed. 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. Its going to stop, he promised. . Was Detroit an outlier or an epicenter? PICTURES: Aiyana Jones, 7, Killed by Cop Weekley, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter, said he didn't immediately realize that he had shot Aiyana during the 2010 house raid. Forbidden by restrictive real estate covenants and racist custom, the blacks were mostly restricted to Paradise Valley, which ran the length of Woodward Avenue. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. I went to see Fieger to ask him to show me the tape. Im not representing the father; Im speaking for the daughter. He also pointed out that while Jones remains a person of interest in JeReans murder, he has not been arrested. 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, Geoffrey Fieger said. 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. Two days later, a crew from the Detroit Police Special Response Team raided Jones' house on Lillibridge Street, blocks from the store. It is a matter of conditioning, Cargill later told me. There are plenty of good people in Detroit, boosters like to say. It also allowed a man to escape the smoldering city. His partner took the rear entrance. She thanked me for coming and showed me her home, which was clean and well kept. People taking advanage of my benevolence. Jones pleaded guilty tosecond-degree murder and was sentenced to40-60 years, although in 2017 the Michigan Court of Appeals granted him a new trial. Family: 7-year-old shot by police was asleep. People are awake. The Rust Belt. [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. By parental neglect? Then they said he jumped out a back window. Listen on Apple Podcasts. JeRean knew badness was on its way and called his mother to come pick him up. The radio was tuned to NPR and A Prairie Home Companion came warbling out of my speakers. [9][10] Some 45,000 abandoned houses pock Detroit. I got no money. The streetlights still go on and off. It was all for the cameras. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. 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 . JeRean knew badness was on its way and called his mother to come pick him up. Outside, Television was watching them. 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. It's now Monday at 10:30pm. 2023 www.detroitnews.com. The kids are dropping like fliesespecially young black malesand hes got nothing but useless words.. What happened after that is a matter of conjecture, as Detroit officials have had problems getting their stories straight. In an echo of deaths at police hands that rocked the US last year, including those of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York, Officer Weekley is white and Stanley-Jones was black. The family of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Detroit police officers, following a raid that led to the death of the child. It regards itself as the temple of a new gospel of progress, to which I shall venture to give the name of Detroitism.. 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. [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. By civic malfeasance? Killing of Aiyana Jones. 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. [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. I think its evil. Dr. Carl Schmidt is the chief medical examiner there. The blood was congealing into a pancake on the dirty linoleum. Charlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, filmmaker, and multimedia reporter. 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. 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. Why would anyone move a gunshot victim, much less toss him in a car? The police were . Go ahead, walk in the Detroit River and disappear. But I cant. Assistant prosecutor Rob Moran told the judge that the misdemeanor was being dropped in the "best interests of justice." [58] Michigan State Police Detective Tawana Powell testified during the 2014 trial that the investigation discovered that the video Fieger was talking about did not exist. You might say that the homicide of Aiyana is the natural conclusion to the disease from which she suffered, Schmidt told me. People involved. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. He has three boys with Aiyanas mother, Dominika Stanley, and three boys with another woman, whom he had left long ago. A thousand people attended, as did the predictable plump of media. JeRean might have thought it was funny to see a grown man driving a moped. Robert Bobb was hired in 2009 as the emergency financial manager and given sweeping powers to balance the books. What I find ironic is a friend of the punks released his video t. 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. What the hell you doing up here for? First published on January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM. Technicians are currently working on the problem. What? he croaked. The jury stall resulted in seven voting "not guilty" and five voting "guilty". 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. 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. 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. Today75 years after the beavers disappeared from the Detroit RiverDetroitism means something completely different. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. An Arab family owned the store, and one of the menthe one with the pocked face and loud voicewas talking on the telephone, but I remember no sounds. Even Time bought a house on the East Side last year for $99,000. Outside, a reality television crew filmed the events for A&E. His body was transferred to Dr. Schmidt and the Wayne County morgue. In Detroit, only 1 in 3 kids will graduate from high school. Thirty-four hours earlier, JeRean Blake Nobles, 17, had been shot outside a liquor store on nearby Mack Avenue; an informant had IDd a man named Chauncey Owens as the shooter and provided this address. The man stopped, turned, and pulled a gun. (Theyd jerry-rigged a contraption where the fax pushes a door hinge, which falls on a screw wired to an actual alarm.) His eyes and mouth were open and held that milky expression of a drunk who has fallen asleep with his eyes open. Twenty-five-year-old Charles Jones had just gone to bed after covering his 7-year-old daughter Aiyana with her favorite blanket. Im stuck. What the hell you doing up here for? It was unlocked. JeRean balled up his tiny fist. Thats good news until you realize that in Detroit, some 500 fires are set every single month. Its always like that. Legal name. As our Detroit reporter, she is helping us expand our coverage of the economy, politics, and culture in and around the city of Detroit. 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. The First 48 photographer Allison Howard was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy, though his heart did not seem to be in it. 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 . Sarah Cwiek joined Michigan Radio in October 2009. 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. Mayor Dave Bing spoke. 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. "He has completed various programming and is active in vocational training. The family of a 7-year-old girl who was fatally shot during a May 2010 police raid is suing the Detroit officer involved in the incident, Detroit News reports.. Detroit VA hospital harmed patients, altered records, investigation reveals, $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. He failed to report. Why you looking at me? said Owens, getting off the moped. "My sugar is going up from stress. Like so many across the country, shes being evicted with no job and no place to go. Not all of us are blessed.. His mothers house on Lillibridge, he said, was just supposed to be a way station to better things. Officers deployeda "flash bang" grenadeand kicked in the front door, and raid team leader Joseph Weekley led the crewinto the house. They killed a child and then they lied about it.. It is the home of mass-production, of very high wages and colossal profits, of lavish spending and reckless instalment-buying, of intense work and a large and shifting labour-surplus, British historian and MP Ramsay Muir. They went hog wild. Not even you.. "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. Weekley, who retired from the police department in 2019,claimed Mertilla Jones grabbed his rifle, causing it to discharge. [39][40], On the second day of trial, September 24, LaKrystal Sanders, who lived on the upper floor of the house where Aiyana was killed, testified. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. 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. I went to visit Cargill, who lived just around the way. The family of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was murdered by Detroit police more than two years ago, is still waiting for justice. "[42][43] They drove her there every morning, five miles. The environment didnt affect us none, Jones said. Uncategorized. Was it inevitable, as the doctor said, that abject poverty would lead to Aiyanas death and so many others? Evans brought a refreshing honesty to a department plagued by ineptitude and secrecy. Fiegers suburban office is a shrine to Geoffrey Fieger. But in Evans defense, he seemed to understand one thing: After the collapse of the car industry and the implosion of the real estate bubble, there is little else Detroit has to export except its misery. Aiyana Jones was killed nine years ago during a police raid gone wrong and no convictions were made. Mother Jones was founded as a nonprofit in 1976 because we knew corporations and billionaires wouldn't fund the type of hard-hitting journalism we set out to do. On April 4, 2019, Aiyanas family settled with Detroit for $8.25 million. JeReans crime? By police incompetence? Jones wasgiven a "contingency parole" after completing required prison programs, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz said Monday. 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