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 . Today75 years after the beavers disappeared from the Detroit RiverDetroitism means something completely different. . "My sugar is going up from stress. It also allowed a man to escape the smoldering city. 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. [4], Officer Joseph Weekley was charged in connection with Jones' killing. Danny Wilcox Frazier is a contributing photographer for Mother Jones. In Los Angeles, by comparison, the unsolved-murder rate is 22 percent. I mean, hiring the Rosa Parks carriage?, I dont owe Sheffield shit, says Jones. Which is what he was doing at this house, authorities contend, when he put three bullets in Officer Huffs face. Even in Detroit, a predominantly black city. 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. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Once at Aiyanas graveside, Charles Jones released a dove. 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 manslaughter trial was declared a mistrial. It is like that all over Detroit, where whole blocks regularly go dark with no warning or any apparent pattern. This is not about policing, he said. They were conducting a police raid in search of a murder suspect who lived at that address -- and being filmed for a reality TV show in the process -- when Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally fired his gun. As for the tape that Geoffrey Fieger claimed would show the cops firing on Aiyanas house from outside, A&E turned it over to the police. Evans brought a refreshing honesty to a department plagued by ineptitude and secrecy. City of Detroit Corporation CounselLawrence Garciahas treated the family with utter disrespect and disdain. That was before he canceled a planned press conference to discuss the upcoming case. It was unlocked. Judge Hathaway emphasized that two juries, in 2013 and 2014, couldn't reach a unanimous verdict. The conceit of the show is that homicide detectives have 48 hours to crack a murder case before the trail goes cold. But there is no money; the struggling school system has a $363 million deficit. The jury stall resulted in seven voting "not guilty" and five voting "guilty". Forget about it. The Rev. 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. This was the first raid on a house since his death. The city grew to 1.3 million people from 300,000 after Ford opened his Model T factory. The family of a 7-year-old who was fatally shot during a botched raid in 2010 is suing Detroit police, alleging officers lied about how she was killed as part of a cover-up. It is a matter of conditioning, Cargill later told me. 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. [2], After the shot was fired, Weekley reported to his sergeant that a woman inside had grabbed for his gun. In the end, Gibson was charged with Huffs murder and the attempted murders of four more officers. Police arrested Mertilla, administered tests for drugs and gunpowder, and released her Sunday morning. What the fuck do you think? he said. I forgive him, but I don't forget what he did.". 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 might blame postwar industrial policies that sent the factories to the suburbs, the rural South, and the western deserts. An investigation was promised. I left McNeals porch and started my car. Inside, splayed on the floor underneath the rack of snack cakes near the register, was a black man in a pool of blood. January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM [65][unreliable source?] 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. Someone radioed in, and more police arrivedbut the official story of what happened that night has changed repeatedly. Within seconds, Weekleyfired hisMP5 rifle, killingAiyana, who was sleeping on the living room couch with her grandmother Mertilla Jones. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. 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. 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. Outside, Television was watching them. The man stopped, turned, and pulled a gun. She said she made no contact with any officers. Sharptons people called JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, promising to come over to her house after Aiyanas funeral. Then JeRean was murdered. The family of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was murdered by Detroit police more than two years ago, is still waiting for justice. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. 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. 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. But defense attorney Steve Fishman says Jones has no credibility because she's told different stories about what happened. Instead of being protected, communities are treated like the enemy, the report found with a disproportionate effect on communities of color. He got paid exactly what he was supposed to be paid.. You might say that the homicide of Aiyana is the natural conclusion to the disease from which she suffered, Schmidt told me. Weekley, 38, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death, a misdemeanor in the death of Aiyana. Aiyana Stanley-Jones, pictured in family photograph. Outside court, a spokesman for Aiyana's family criticized the judge for her comments. You could blame it on the gas shocks of the 70s that opened the door to foreign car competition. "She's not a scapegoat. The little girl in the video was based on a true story, according to MTV.com. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. The First 48 photographer Allison Howard was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. 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. 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. The Jones family contends that the shot that killed Aiyana was fired from outside the house, and that the police eventually caught the homicide suspect, Chauncey L. Owens, at a different address . On his desk is a bronze bust of Geoffrey Fieger. Have him call me, and then hung up the phone. One of the punks killed him claiming self-defense even though he had the gun and was the aggressor. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? [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. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. Sharpton left and the Rev. [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. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket.. As for the videotape of the killing, Geoffrey Fieger said he did not have it. The story smelled to high heaven from the beginning. It is not protocol. As officer Joseph Weekley walks free, another community is demanding answers about the increasing militarisation of law enforcement. Aiyana Jones, Up Closed, https://upclosed.com/people/aiyana-monay-stanley-jones/; Aiyana Jones, Mother Jones, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/09/aiyana-stanley-jones-detroit/; Aiyana Jones, Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/17/aiyana-stanley-jones-joseph-weekley-trial_n_5824684.html; CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aiyana-stanley-jones-case-final-charge-dropped-against-detroit-cop-in-fatal-raid/. What I find ironic is a friend of the punks released his video t. Suddenly, Detroit was historic, symbolichip, even. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket. 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The title is derived from the California penal code for murder: 187. Twenty-five-year-old Charles Jones had just gone to bed after covering his 7-year-old daughter Aiyana with her favorite blanket. Thats a hell of a pair of bookends, I offered. 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. The bullet hit a child. What did? 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. I get no sleep. Over 10 years ago, Detroit police executed a nighttime raid at a home on the city's east side in search of a murder suspect. For that he was given simple probation. What the fuck you looking at?. 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. Barry, who said he had been gassed and maced and had guns pointed at him while attending demonstrations, including in Ferguson, Missouri, said the militarization of police was part of a long history and heritage of crackdown on communities of color in America, including the post-9/11 crackdown on Muslim and Arab communities. There were even toys on the lawn. Murder suspect Chauncey Louis Owens, the target of the raid, will be charged. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley in court in Detroit, Mich. on June 18, 2013 during his first trial. In fact, there are no chain grocery stores in all of Detroit. He failed to report. Gibson is a tall, thick-necked man who, like the character Omar from The Wire, made his living robbing dope houses. His partner took the rear entrance. The illiteracy, child poverty, and unemployment rates hover around 50 percent. Another cruiser with two officers responded as well. So Dr. Schmidt keeps them on layaway, zipped up in body bags as family members wait for a ship to come in that never seems to arrive. 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. We believe today's settlement is fair because it balances the needs of Aiyana's family and our responsibility for the city's finances. 42,200. The programs six-minute sizzle reel begins with Evans dressed in full battle gear in front of the shattered Michigan Central Rail Depot, cradling a semiautomatic rifle and declaring that he would do whatever it takes to take back the streets of Detroit. [12] Charles Jones, Aiyana's father, wore a black suit, pink tie and pink handkerchief in remembrance of his daughter as pink was her favorite color. A reality TV crew recorded the scene from the street. [61][62][63], In May 2016, BlackMattersUS[64][unreliable source?] 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. 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. Dr. Death. ME Schmidt ruled it a homicide; the police decided it was a suicide. [12][17][18] Officer Weekley claimed that the flash grenade subsequently blinded his view of the person on the couch in the living room. Sharptons full of shit, said Cargill, a brassy 39-year-old who works as a stock clerk at Target. And Ive got to say in all my years in the department, Ive never used a flash-bang in a case like this.. We hope this resolution will provide everyone involved a measure of closure," Detroit Corporation Counsel Lawrence Garcia said in a statement, according to the Detroit News. Weekley claimed Aiyana Jones' paternal grandmother, Mertilla Jones, attempted to slap his MP5 submachine gun, causing it to fire. But if it wasnt for them, the city population would have sunk further than it did. I dont want no apology from no police. [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. The family is seeking $7.5 million in damages and a jury trial conceded by the court filing. [51] She was buried on the grounds. Radley Balko | 5.24.2010 3:00 PM. A few minutes after that, JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, arrived and got behind the wheel of the car that friends had dragged him into. The presence of children in the house was known. He gives details of the way streets look like at night, and gives a captivating detail of girl's father suffering from insomnia. Skyscrapers sprang up virtually overnight. Ive seen him in the faces of soldiers when I was covering the Iraq War. Aiyana's mother Dominika Stanley, and paternal grandmother Mertilla testified, and both had "emotional outbursts." No one can answer that fully. And he wouldnt even help her. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley stands in judge Cynthia Hathaways courtroom in Detroit, in June 2013. Editors note: On October 4, 2011, following a yearlong investigation by the Michigan state police, Officer Weekley was charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm. Her grandmother, Mertilla Jones, was close by. The ACLU report found that only 7% of Swat raids were in hostage or active shooter situations situations that justify such extreme responses and 79% were effectuating search warrants, situations that do not call for Swat interventions. 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley Jones died from bullet wound during the raid Police say officer's weapon fired after an encounter with an adult in the house (CNN) -- An attorney representing the. A good kid who showed neighborhood children how to work electric clippers, his dream was to open a barbershop. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Charlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, filmmaker, and multimedia reporter. February 24, 2023. The entire botched nighttime raid was captured on camera by crews from the A&E show The First 48. The whole country knew it, and the whole country laughed. During the second trial, Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed the most serious charge, involuntary manslaughter, saying there was insufficient evidence. 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 auto industry allowed for sprawl. Owens, a habitual criminal, was arrested upstairs minutes after Aiyanas shooting and charged for the slaying of JeRean. The family of Aiyana Jones, the 7-year-old girl accidentally killed by a Detroit police officer during a raid in 2010, has reached settlement with the city o. The service was held at Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit, a drab cake-shaped megachurch near the Chrysler Freeway. held a small rally in memory of Jones. Known as Half-Day Hathaway, the judge was removed from the bench for six months by the Michigan Supreme Court a decade ago for, among other things, adjourning trials to sneak away on vacation. [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. The dismissal was at the request of Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy, who called the decision, which by law cannot be appealed, unfortunate. As Officer Weekley wept on the sidewalk, Aiyana was rushed to the trauma table, where she was pronounced dead. Aiyana was killed when police raided a house to capture a murder suspect. IT WAS JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on the morning of May 16 and the neighbors say the streetlights were out on Lillibridge Street. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. 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. Weekley left the courtroom through a private door. 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. 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. [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'. Seconds after Aiyana's blanket caught fire, the SWAT team stormed through the door, and mistakenly shot Aiyana through the neck, killing her. Sheffield came to see Cargill. You might point to the trade agreements of the Clinton years, which allowed American manufacturers to leave the country by the back door. But JeRean never went to prom, much less the Afghanistan theater, because he couldnt clear the killing fields of Detroit. 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. . He computerized daily crime statistics, created a mobile strike force commanded by young and educated go-getters, and dispatched cops to crime hot spots. 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. Jones was born on July 20, 2002, to Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley in Detroit. [12] Owens was in the upstairs apartment. The day Barrens cleaned out his desk, a burglar cleaned out Barrens house. She arrived too late. Cole's character, it turns out, is a drug dealer. If such a thing could be true, Chaises neighborhood is worse than JeReans. 2023 www.detroitnews.com. The kids are dropping like fliesespecially young black malesand hes got nothing but useless words.. 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. Seconds after entering the house, where the grenade had caused Aiyanas blanket to catch fire, Weekley fired one fatal shot. 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. 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. At the center of this economic dynamo was Detroit. [12], According to press reports, police were on the scene by 12:40a.m. on Sunday, May 16, 2010. In this shit, a one-year-old played next door, barefoot. 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. The city filled with people from all over the world: Arabs, Appalachians, Poles, African Americans, all in their separate neighborhoods surrounding the factories. More than 4,000 people attended Officer Huffs funeral at the Greater Grace Temple on the citys Northwest Side. The police were searching for a murder suspect thought to be in the Jones home. But she added: "I hope he does the right thing when he gets outand triesto help these other young Black males out here;tell them about lifeand tell them what he did.". Over the next 50 years, Detroits East Side would become the worlds machine shop, its factory floor. The landlord of the duplex, Edward Taylor, let me into the Jones apartment. and Weekley for the unlawful use of excessive force. (Theyd jerry-rigged a contraption where the fax pushes a door hinge, which falls on a screw wired to an actual alarm.) They had time, a Detroit police detective told me. The flashbacks. The Detroit Free Press has more details here. Detroit has since made little progress on the federal consent decree. 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. Stanley suddenly emerged from her stupor: Whats that got to do with it? she hissed. All Rights Reserved. In Michigan, the designation for homicide is actually 750.316 (PDF), but thats just a mouthful of detail. Some 45,000 abandoned houses pock Detroit. He caught a lunch lady stealing the childrens milk money. But McNeal messed upshe admits as much. Her parents say they hope Aiyana will be remembered as more than a symbol of heightened tension in a city in crisis. Weve got nothing but bullet fragments., A neighbor who tends the lawn in front of the dope house out of respect to Huff wonders why so many cops came in the first place, given that the police hardly come around at all, much less that many cops that fast on a home break-in.. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. A thousand people attended, as did the predictable plump of media. 2:45 Detroit Charles Jones, whose role in a high school student's 2010 slaying helped spark the police raid that ended with the officer-involved shooting death of his 7-year-old daughter. The house next door to his is rubble smelling of burnt pine, pissed on by the spray cans of the East Warren Crips. Grandmother Mertilla Jones said, "Accountability needs to be expected from cases like this, because cops can't keep killing people and getting away with it. People call it police brutality. The Rev. A half-dozen masked officers of. And America is buying. The gimmick was to have its reporters live there and chronicle the decline of the Motor City for one year. 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. A former risk manager for the district was indicted for siphoning off $3 million for personal use. ReverendAl Sharpton gave the eulogy. The death of Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones helped increased national awareness of the ongoing issue of unarmed Black Americans being killed by police. Compounding the tragedy is the fact that the police threw the grenade into the wrong apartment. The Detroit chapter of the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) and Black Lives Matter Detroit organized the rally on what would have been her 14th birthday. . The accident has led to outrage in Detroit, directed at police. His body was transferred to Dr. Schmidt and the Wayne County morgue. The victim, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was shot in the head while she slept on a couch in May 2010. The camera crew was not inside the house when the girl was hit. I lingered a moment, backing out while taking it in: the bracelet, the liquor, the blood, the gun, the Ho-Hos, the cheapness of it all. Joneswas retried in 2019 for manslaughter and for being a habitual offender, and was sentenced to 10-20 years, with2,841 days credit for time served. It was all for the cameras. In this way, what happened to J Cole's daughter? What the hell you doing up here for? About 350 people are murdered each year in Detroit. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. what happened to aiyana jones. He might have smirked. McNeal wondered how she was going to pay the $3,000 for her sons funeral. As a reporter, Ive worked from New York to St. Louis to Los Angeles, and Detroit is the only big city I know of that doesnt put out a crime blotter tracking the days mayhem. (And that statistic is true; I checked.). His weapon fired a single shot, the bullet striking Aiyana in the head and exiting her neck. The slap caused the gun to fire with the bullets striking young Aiyana in the head and killing her instantly. He came here for publicity. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. When I called the head of the homicide bureau and explained the situation, he told me, Oh yeah? 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. [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. It was 12:40 am on Sunday, May 16, 2010. Police first floated the story that Aiyanas grandmother had grabbed Weekleys gun. 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. In Detroit, a new car costs more than the average house. Fieger alleged a police cover-up. Police officers came from Canada and across Michigan. His eyes and mouth were open and held that milky expression of a drunk who has fallen asleep with his eyes open. Look at the Trending Topics on Twitter. Police report that they arrested the suspect at the duplex where the . Listen on Apple Podcasts. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. It all happened in a matter of seconds. Families of people killed by police officers and activists gathered at the feet of the Spirit of Detroit statue in front of the Coleman A. 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 . AIYANA WAS LAID TO REST six days after her killing. The fire department is little better. Why you looking at me? said Owens, getting off the moped. January 7, 2022 . Weekley claimed his gun accidentally went off as he struggled with the girls grandmother, Mertilla Jones. 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?. 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