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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. 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. [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'. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. Thats one less knucklehead driving around looking to do a drive-by., His approach was successful, with murder dropping more than 20 percent in his first year. Then Evans own driver shot a man last October. Detroit demolishes only 500 homes a year, thanks to concerns over lawsuits and environmental hazards, as well as lack of funds and ineptitude. 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. During the second trial, Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed the most serious charge, involuntary manslaughter, saying there was insufficient evidence. The radio was tuned to NPR and A Prairie Home Companion came warbling out of my speakers. I was allowed to meet with Charles Jones the following morning at Fiegers office, but with the caveat that I could only ask him questions about the evening his daughter was killed. Outside court, a spokesman for Aiyana's family criticized the judge for her comments. Police caught him again in November 2009 in possession of a handgun stolen from an Ohio cop. 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. I forgive him, but I don't forget what he did.". He computerized daily crime statistics, created a mobile strike force commanded by young and educated go-getters, and dispatched cops to crime hot spots. In a photograph from May 2010, Dominika Stanley and Charles Jones hold a picture of their daughter, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in a Detroit courtroom. Assistant prosecutor Rob Moran told the judge that the misdemeanor was being dropped in the "best interests of justice." 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. Was it death by TV? 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? He assigned the SWAT team the job of rounding up murder suspects, a task that had previously been done by detectives. That factory closed in 1956 and was left to rot, pulling down the East Side, which pulled down the city. [42] While Sanders was on the stand, Judge Cynthia Hathaway told her that she (Sanders) was being "disrespectful. 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. The house next door to his is rubble smelling of burnt pine, pissed on by the spray cans of the East Warren Crips. Were going to pull people over for traffic violations and were going to take their cars if theyre not legal. Inside the lower unit of a duplex halfway down the gloomy street, Charles Jones, 25, was pacing, unable to sleep. Her body was transferred to the Wayne County morgue. The team, which had received intelligence that at least one rifle was in the house,wasaccompanied by a crew from the cable TV show, "First 48.". But Geoffrey Fieger calls it police arrogance. [56] A spokesman for city police demanded that Fieger share the tape's contents with Michigan State Police investigators. The kids are dropping like fliesespecially young black malesand hes got nothing but useless words.. McNeal wondered how she was going to pay the $3,000 for her sons funeral. Robert Bobb was hired in 2009 as the emergency financial manager and given sweeping powers to balance the books. BlackPast.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and our EIN is 26-1625373. There are plenty of good people in Detroit, boosters like to say. He didn't elaborate. Jones wasgiven a "contingency parole" after completing required prison programs, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz said Monday. Thats good news until you realize that in Detroit, some 500 fires are set every single month. The psychopathology of growing up in Detroit, he said. Besides, there was always a job in America when you needed one. The Rev. Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. The lawsuit asserts that police were outside of the home where they "blindly fired random shots," and one of the bullets fatally struck the 7-year-old child in the neck. The Detroit Free Press has more details here. Weekley stated, "A woman inside grabbed my gun. Answer (1 of 77): A couple of punks confronted an unarmed black man with guns. Why you do this to me? They were conducting a police raid in search of a. At its peak popularity, 810 fires were set in a three-day span. On a hot afternoon around one Mothers Day, I was working in the back greenhouse. We believe today's settlement is fair because it balances the needs of Aiyana's family and our responsibility for the city's finances. She arrived too late. Oh, stay your ass right here, Owens growled. 2) NO WEAPONS OF ANY KIND WERE FOUND IN OR OUTSIDE THE HOME OF MERTILLA JONES after the police Special Response Team raid. Evans driver dropped him with a single shot. Based on the findings from a report released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in June 2014 and entitled War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing, which looked at thousands of documents from police departments across the country, Ezekiel Edwards, the director of the ACLUs criminal law reform project, says needlessly deploying Swat teams is part of a trend among nationwide police forces which increasingly [see] themselves as military tactical units. Sheffield came to see Cargill. He said. Your donation is fully tax-deductible. Owens, a habitual criminal, was arrested upstairs minutes after Aiyanas shooting and charged for the slaying of JeRean. That house, too, is on the citys East Side, a nondescript brick duplex with a crumbling garage whose driveway funnels into busy Schoenherr Road. He had been married eight years and had three daughters and a stepson. I wouldnt wish this on nobody in the world. Except there aint no job. Hes from New York. What does the science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic? War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing. January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. Bagpipes played and the rain fell. The presence of children in the house was known. AP Photo/The Detroit News, John T. Greilick, How Alaska became one of fentanyl's deadliest frontiers, Pennsylvania police seized gloves, flashlight from home of Idaho murders suspect, Where things stand in the Alex Murdaugh double murder trial. Jones was born on July 20, 2002, to Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley in Detroit. [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. Evans told me then that major crimes were routinely underreported by 20 percent. It was 12:40 am on Sunday, May 16, 2010. And now that the papers do cover Detroit, boosters complain about a lack of balance. That night, she was murdered by the very people meant to "protect" and "serve" her. Then she introduced me to her 14-year-old son DeErion, whose remains sat in an urn on the mantel. [16], Aiyana Jones was the daughter of Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley. His weapon fired a single shot, the bullet striking Aiyana in the head and exiting her neck. She later explained that she reached for her granddaughter when the grenade came through the window and that is what caused her to hit the officers gun. They went hog wild. What the fuck you looking at?. Today, reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget, allows us to dig deep on stories that matter, and lets us keep our reporting free for everyone. . The victim, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was shot in the head while she slept on a couch in May 2010. Evans was fired. The gimmick was to have its reporters live there and chronicle the decline of the Motor City for one year. He also told me that perhaps 50 percent of Detroits drivers were operating without a license or insurance. But if it wasnt for them, the city population would have sunk further than it did. 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. [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. Seconds after entering the house, where the grenade had caused Aiyanas blanket to catch fire, Weekley fired one fatal shot. Barry, who has been active in demonstrations against police violence and whose organization has mounted a formal campaign to demilitarize the police, said there were two separate justice systems in the US. She later went to nursing school but got sidetracked by her own health problems. He became a horrifying statisticone of 103 kids and teens murdered between January 2009 and July 2010. Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, 7, died May 16, 2010 after being shot by an officer during a police raid in Detroit. 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. A reality TV crew recorded the scene from the street. Sharptons people called JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, promising to come over to her house after Aiyanas funeral. Whenever I see a person who died of violence or misadventure, I think about the dead man with the open eyes on the dirty floor of the liquor store. As far-fetched as what happened to the Joneses may sound, they are not . I was thinking that, she said with tears. The kids are dropping like flies and hes got nothing but useless words., CHECK OUT A SLIDESHOW OF ABANDONED HOUSES ON ONE BLOCK IN DETROIT, join us with a tax-deductible donation today. 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. The raid happened early Sunday morning. I called the fire department to ask for its statistics. 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). "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. 20072023 Blackpast.org. "They said he'll be on parole until 2030, and he or his family can't be around my family. Gibson bonded out last January and actually showed up for his trial in circuit court on February 17. His seven-year-old daughter, Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones (PDF), slept on the couch as her grandmother watched television. When I was a teenager, my mother owned a struggling little flower shop on the East Side, not far from where Aiyana was killed. 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. Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she slept on a couch in a Detroit home in 2010. Police fired a flash grenade through the front window. The trial of a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a seven-year-old girl began today.Officer Joseph Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones during . 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 wrote in 1927. [2], After the shot was fired, Weekley reported to his sergeant that a woman inside had grabbed for his gun. Aiyana was severely burned and then shot in the head and neck by an unidentified police officer standing on the porch. Lil James brought along a .357 Magnumat the behest of Jones, Detective Williams testified, because Jones was afraid someone would try to steal his diamond Cartier glasses.. Its some lil niggas at the store talking shitlets go whip they ass, Detective Theopolis Williams later testified that Owens told him during his interrogation. (And that statistic is true; I checked.). Me? [34][35], Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. In Detroit, only 1 in 3 kids will graduate from high school. ReverendAl Sharpton gave the eulogy. 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 . I would have waited until the morning when the guy went to the liquor store to buy a quart of milk. Al Sharpton spoke her eulogy. [53] Two days after Jones's death, on May 18, 2010, attorney Geoffrey Fieger filed lawsuits on behalf of her family against A&E and the police. AP Photo Charles Jones, the father of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was killed early Sunday in Detroit, holds a photo of Aiyana in attorney Geoffrey Fieger's office in Southfield, Mich., Tuesday . It's hurting me. Much of the firefighters equipment was substandard: Their boots had holes; they were alerted to fires by fax from the central office. For that he was given simple probation. JeRean balled up his tiny fist. Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights. First published on January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM. 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