The ones pictured here are all found on one block. People involved. Today75 years after the beavers disappeared from the Detroit RiverDetroitism means something completely different. Have him call me, and then hung up the phone. Why you do this to me? We noticed you have an ad blocker on. Sharptons people called JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, promising to come over to her house after Aiyanas funeral. I got no money. 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. People my mothers age like to tell me about Detroits good old days of soda fountains and shopping markets and lazy Saturday night drives. These Wigs Install in Seconds. Gibson bonded out last January and actually showed up for his trial in circuit court on February 17. and Weekley for the unlawful use of excessive force. Once at Aiyanas graveside, Charles Jones released a dove. It means uncertainty and abandonment and psychopathology. [65][unreliable source?] ME Schmidt ruled it a homicide; the police decided it was a suicide. Adam Rose/Netflix In addition to traveling, the Chicago-based pair is looking at a potential move once Iyanna, 27, heads back to school to get her master's degree. The environment didnt affect us none, Jones said. He caught a lunch lady stealing the childrens milk money. Police first floated the story that Aiyanas grandmother had grabbed Weekleys gun. His seven-year-old daughter, Aiyana Monay Stanley-Jones (PDF), slept on the couch as her grandmother watched television. You might blame the 1967 race riot and the white flight that followed. [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. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. It was all for the cameras. School wasnt a priority. Aiyana Joness funeral was held on May 22, 2010, at the Second Ebenezer BaptistChurch in Detroit where Alfred (Al) Charles Sharpton Jr. gave the eulogy. Southeasterns motto is Age Quod Agis: Attend to Your Business. And JeRean did. 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. I was thinking that, she said with tears. Over the next 50 years, Detroits East Side would become the worlds machine shop, its factory floor. The Rev. [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. May 16, 2010, 7-year-old Aiyana was asleep on her couch, wrapped in her Hannah Montana blanket. The city reached a peak population of 1.9 million people in the 1950s, and it was 83 percent white. Police caught him again in November 2009 in possession of a handgun stolen from an Ohio cop. 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. 91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 Flint. 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. The victim, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was shot in the head while she slept on a couch in May 2010. On May 14, 2010, JeRean Blake, a senior at Southeastern High School of Technology and Law was shot and killed near an intersection on Detroits east side. As Detroit led the nation in median income and homeownership, automation and foreign competition were forcing companies like Packard to shutter their doors. Outside, Television was watching them. Both trials ended with hung juries. She arrived too late. Aiyana Stanley-Jones, who was shot and killed in her sleep by a bullet from Joseph Weekley's gun during the A&E filmed documented raid was laid to rest at the Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit on May 22, 2010. Parts of the Detroit River are now clean enough for swimming. Jones and two other men known as Lil James and Dirt rode along for JeReans ass-whipping. . The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. She denied grabbing the weapon. An investigation was promised. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. 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. But McNeal messed upshe admits as much. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. A fresh trial was scheduled for December 2013,[29] but actually began in September 2014. Evans drivera copgave chase. She said she made no contact with any officers. 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. [42] While Sanders was on the stand, Judge Cynthia Hathaway told her that she (Sanders) was being "disrespectful. In Detroit, a new car costs more than the average house. 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. Fiegers suburban office is a shrine to Geoffrey Fieger. 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. Weekley stated, "A woman inside grabbed my gun. It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder. Then she introduced me to her 14-year-old son DeErion, whose remains sat in an urn on the mantel. [5] Devils Night is no longer the big deal it used to be, topping out last year at around 65 arsons. 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. This is not about policing, he said. An 11th-grade dropout and convicted robber, he said he supported his seven children with a little this, a little thatI got a few tricks and trades.. There are no fewer than two TV dramas, two documentaries, and three reality programs being filmed here. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter and "negligent firing of a weapon causing death". I saw him in the face of my sisters daughter, who died from a heroin overdose in a suburban basement near the interstate, weeks after I moved back to Michigan with my wife to raise our daughter and take a job with the Detroit News. Behind him stood two rookies. I am sick. They still owe me rent, he said with a face about the Joneses. His seven-year-old daughter, Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones (PDF), slept on the couch as her grandmother watched television. [6][7][8] The number was actually 375. Im trying to find him, Sheffield complained. It's hurting me. A small donation would help us keep this available to all. Ive seen him in the faces of soldiers when I was covering the Iraq War. FEMAIL reveals what has happened to . The story smelled to high heaven from the beginning. [19], Police officers, bystanders, and residents of the home disagreed about the events that followed. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley in court in Detroit, Mich. on June 18, 2013 during his first trial. Thats good news until you realize that in Detroit, some 500 fires are set every single month. The graduation rate for Detroit schoolkids hovers around 35 percent (PDF). His weapon fired a single shot, the bullet striking Aiyana in the head and exiting her neck. Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones for just $14.95. He was shot in the head and killed last year. The SWAT team tried the steel door to the building. Go. He wore a gold bracelet as thick as a gymnasium rope. Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. ", The mother of Jones' victim, Lyvonne Cargill, said: "I'm stressed thinking about that man coming home." He won't be in the field. But JeRean never went to prom, much less the Afghanistan theater, because he couldnt clear the killing fields of Detroit. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? [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. Forget what you saw, little man. 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. When I moved back to Detroit two years ago, I profiled a firehouse on the East Side. You might point to the trade agreements of the Clinton years, which allowed American manufacturers to leave the country by the back door. The car made Detroit, and the car unmade Detroit. He looked at Chauncey Owens the wrong way, detectives say. They were conducting a police raid in search of a. The judge denied the motion for mistrial, saying she believed the jury could still be "impartial." Detroit. . The killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. There are two elementary schools in the area, both in desperate need of a lawnmower and a can of paint. 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. 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. On October 4, 2011, a Wayne County grand jury indicted Officer Joseph Weekley for involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. To me, thats like writing about the surf conditions in the Gaza Strip. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket. Then they said he jumped out a back window. Cargill said her two surviving children, a 30-year-old daughter and son, 22, took the news of Jones' pending release hard. Weekley, 38, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death, a misdemeanor in the death of Aiyana. 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. Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights. 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. According to reports, seconds after entering the house, Weekley fired the fatal shot. 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 dismissal was at the request of Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy, who called the decision, which by law cannot be appealed, unfortunate. "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. Weekley, a member of an elite police unit, was the first officer through the door during a chaotic . There are some 10,000 unsolved homicides dating back to 1960. 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 raising serious concern among national groups over an increasingly militarized police force. I have . The fact is a police officer threw the flash grenade through the window of the house that landed on Aiyana's blanket . Aiyanas pink-robed body was carried away by a horse-drawn carriage to the Trinity Cemetery, the same carriage that five years earlier had taken the body of Rosa Parks to Woodlawn Cemetery on the citys West Side. The manslaughter trial was declared a mistrial. Jones, 25, a slight man with frizzy braids, wore a dingy T-shirt. Mertilla Jones, 46, and her grandaughter, Aiyana Jones, 7, were asleep on a couch in their lower flat's front room at about 12:30 a.m. when police tossed an incendiary stun grenade through the window directly above the couch. A good kid with average grades, JeRean went to Southeastern High, which is situated in an industrial belt of moldering Chrysler assembly plants. I stared through the windshield at the little boy in the diaper playing amid the ruins, reached over, and switched it off. But he doesnt return my calls. 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). Then eight, then eleven. Forget about it. Completed in 1917, the school, attended by white students at the time, was considered so far out in the wilds that its athletic teams took the nickname Jungaleers.. Officials said Gibson ran out the front of the house. What did? [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. Sharptons full of shit, said JeReans mother. The bullet struck Aiyana killing her. He said. The store bell jingled its little requiem as I pulled the door open. AIYANA WAS LAID TO REST six days after her killing. "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. Social media and keyword searches can tell much about the popularity and worth of a topic. For community members and advocates, the bigger question is why a Swat team was deployed in the first place. But the grandmother says she was lying on the far side of the couch, away from the door. 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. 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. 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. In Detroit, the official response time of an ambulance to a 911 call is 12 minutes. 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. The Detroit City Council needs to approve the settlement. Aiyana's mother Dominika Stanley, and paternal grandmother Mertilla testified, and both had "emotional outbursts." The landlord of the duplex, Edward Taylor, let me into the Jones apartment. I wouldnt wish this on nobody in the world. Police officers came from Canada and across Michigan. ], My baby, my baby, my baby. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. But even he couldnt stanch the tsunami of red ink; the deficit ballooned more than $140 million under his guidance. A man called me once to say he had witnessed a murder, but the police refused to take his statement. Somebody should have told company executives back in New York that they had wildly overpaid. The madness has to stop, he said. People are awake. 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. WHat actually happened to this little girl? In 2010 Aiyana MoNay Stanley-Jones, a seven-year-old African American girl, was accidentally shot and killedduring a raid that was conducted by the Detroit,Michigan Police Departments Special Response Team. Sarah Cwiek joined Michigan Radio in October 2009. Charlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, filmmaker, and multimedia reporter. As it turns out, he was filming a pilot for his own reality show, entitled The Chief. Aiyana was killed when police raided a house to capture a murder suspect. "This was an assassination by video," said Roland Lawrence as he and others watched a small plane . The sad and confusing circumstances of the murders of JeRean Blake and Officer Huff, both black, robbed Sharpton of some of his customary indignation. People call it police brutality. Sharptons full of shit, said Cargill, a brassy 39-year-old who works as a stock clerk at Target. But pollution didnt kill Detroit. It's us but for your ears. 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. McNeal wondered how she was going to pay the $3,000 for her sons funeral. The judge said she's willing to be the "scapegoat" if critics don't like the result. Not even you.. In 2007, he attacked a cop and tried to take his gun. The appellatecourt ruledthe presiding judge in Jones'case hadn'tadequately answered jurors' questionsduring deliberations. He came here for publicity. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. I am sick as hell. 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. 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. He came here for publicity. Clutching his juice in one hand and two dollars in the other, JeRean staggered across Mack Avenue and collapsed in the street. One witness had him pegged for 13 years old. The bullet hit a child. Blame the Federal Reserve. The department was also cited for excessive force after people died in lockup and at the hands of rogue cops. In Detroit, only 1 in 3 kids will graduate from high school. The prisoner has not incurred any serious misconducts while in prison. Weekley insisted he accidentally pulled the trigger during a struggle with Aiyana's grandmother. Jones wasgiven a "contingency parole" after completing required prison programs, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz said Monday. He, too, was about to graduate from Southeastern High. What the fuck do you think? he said. 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.". When I called the head of the homicide bureau and explained the situation, he told me, Oh yeah? A woman was in his car, the motor running. Dr. Death. 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.. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. As Officer Weekley wept on the sidewalk, Aiyana was rushed to the trauma table, where she was pronounced dead. Gibson is a tall, thick-necked man who, like the character Omar from The Wire, made his living robbing dope houses. God, dont take my baby.. That house, too, is on the citys East Side, a nondescript brick duplex with a crumbling garage whose driveway funnels into busy Schoenherr Road. Al Sharpton spoke her eulogy. Coco Jones has lived many lives. Take for instance the death of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was shot and killed during a police raid at their Detroit home. On January 28, 2015, a prosecutor cleared Weekley of the last remaining charge against him, ensuring there would not be a third trial. In 2019, Jones' family agreed to an $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement against the city of Detroit in connection with the raid. The family is seeking $7.5 million in damages and a jury trial conceded by the court filing. The flashbacks. [20] He pushed his way inside, protected by a ballistic shield. Even Time bought a house on the East Side last year for $99,000. It was a white cop who killed the girl, but Detroit is Americas largest black city with a black mayor and a black chief of police. His brother stood over the dead man, a pistol in his hand, keeping an eye on the door in case someone walked in wanting to settle things. Owens, a habitual criminal, was arrested upstairs minutes after Aiyanas shooting and charged for the slaying of JeRean. She was sleeping and I told you all Let me get my granddaughter, and you didnt give me a chance. The suspect fingered for Blakes murder, Chauncey Owens, lived in the upstairs flat, with Charles Jones sister. 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