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Jones was born on July 20, 2002, to Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley in Detroit, Michigan. Im stuck. Today75 years after the beavers disappeared from the Detroit RiverDetroitism means something completely different. The case had been set to go to trial next week. Owens sped two blocks back to Lillibridge and gathered up a posse, according to his statement to the police. They had even kept Aiyana in her old school, Trix Elementary, because it was something consistent in her life, a clean and safe school in a city with too few. Two trials against Officer Joseph Weekley ended without verdicts on a charge of reckless use of a gun. Jones and two other men known as Lil James and Dirt rode along for JeReans ass-whipping. The store bell jingled its little requiem as I pulled the door open. Word of the free milk and honey made its way down South, and the poor Negros and hillbillies flooded in. [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. More than 4,000 people attended Officer Huffs funeral at the Greater Grace Temple on the citys Northwest Side. He was shot in the head and killed last year. Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. One witness had him pegged for 13 years old. 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. He computerized daily crime statistics, created a mobile strike force commanded by young and educated go-getters, and dispatched cops to crime hot spots. Weekley stated, "A woman inside grabbed my gun. The department decided to withdraw him from active duty shortly after the shooting on May 16, 2010. The killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. Have him call me, and then hung up the phone. The camera crew was not inside the house when the girl was hit. She arrived too late. [61][62][63], In May 2016, BlackMattersUS[64][unreliable source?] I began to get calls from reporters around the world wondering what Detroit was like, what was happening here. 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. 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. 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. [31] In June 2013, Howard pleaded "no contest" to the obstruction of justice charge, and the perjury charge was dismissed. What? he croaked. The morning after he was shot, Chaises clippers were mysteriously deposited on his front porch, wiped clean and free of hair. 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. Detroit Charles Jones,whose role in ahigh school student's 2010 slayinghelped spark thepolice raid that ended with the officer-involved shooting death of his 7-year-old daughter Aiyana Stanley-Jones, has been granted parole. A seven-year-old Black girl was fatally during a raid in Detroit, Michigan Police Department in 2010. The Rust Belt. Later that day, Detroit Police identified Chauncey Owens as a suspect in the shooting and a warrant was issued for his arrest. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket.. I get no sleep. Scott said a civil suit had been filed and an appeal made to US attorney general Eric Holder to pursue a case for the violation of Aiyanas civil rights. [51] She was buried on the grounds. The kids are dropping like fliesespecially young black malesand hes got nothing but useless words.. [59], On April 2, 2015, nearly five years following Jones's death, Officer Weekley was returned to active duty as a Detroit police officer. Then Evans own driver shot a man last October. On a hot afternoon around one Mothers Day, I was working in the back greenhouse. Owens, a habitual criminal, was arrested upstairs minutes after Aiyanas shooting and charged for the slaying of JeRean. In October 2011, he was charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. 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. (Theyd jerry-rigged a contraption where the fax pushes a door hinge, which falls on a screw wired to an actual alarm.) [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. 1894 shipwreck found in Lake Huron, confirming "powerful, tragic story", Garland to face Congress amid ongoing special counsel investigations, FBI chief says agency feels pandemic likely started with Chinese lab leak. Forget about it. Uncategorized. 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. DETROITS EAST SIDE is now the poorest, most violent quarter of Americas poorest, most violent big city. Blame the Federal Reserve. Fieger responded by saying he does not have the supposed video,[57] which he claims was made by the A&E Network reality show The First 48. Police first floated the story that Aiyanas grandmother had grabbed Weekleys gun. Seconds after entering the house, where the grenade had caused Aiyanas blanket to catch fire, Weekley fired one fatal shot. I am sick as hell. The manslaughter trial was declared a mistrial. One ran off. "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. Its now just another abandoned house in Detroit.. He admitted in his first trial that, "It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl. About 350 people are murdered each year in Detroit. It was all for the cameras. 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. 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. The environment got nothing to do with kids.. The man stopped, turned, and pulled a gun. Cargill said because of COVID-19 restrictions, she was unable to attend Jones' parole hearings to contest his release. Inside, splayed on the floor underneath the rack of snack cakes near the register, was a black man in a pool of blood. The fact is a police officer threw the flash grenade through the window of the house that landed on Aiyana's blanket . As the black population grew, so did black frustration over poor housing and rock-fisted police. 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.. But the people of Lillibridge Street still look like theyve been picked up by their hair and dropped from the rooftop. Sherrors mom, in white, lost another son to a bullet the previous year. If he didn't give him the gun, they feel like their brother would still be alive, and Aiyana would still be alive.". People taking advanage of my benevolence. [6][7][8] 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. 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. His seven-year-old daughter, Aiyana Monay Stanley-Jones (PDF), slept on the couch as her grandmother watched television. About 40 kids were milling around in front of the soft-serve window. 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. [5] If you value what you get from Mother Jones, please join us with a tax-deductible donation today so we can keep on doing the type of journalism 2023 demands. "It bothers them," she said. She had already cleared a space on the other end of the mantel for Chaises urn. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley stands in judge Cynthia Hathaways courtroom in Detroit, in June 2013. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Inside, toys, Hannah Montana shoes, and a pyramid of KFC cartons were left to rot. Add in the fact that half the police precincts were closed in 2005 for budgetary reasons, and the crime lab was closed two years ago due to ineptitude, and it might explain why five of the nine members of the city council carry a firearm. Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.. Soon, the Motor Citys population surpassed that of Boston and Baltimore, old East Coast port cities founded on maritime shipping when the world moved by boat. As for the struggles of a generation of living people, the murder of a hundred children, they ask me: Whats new in that?. The jury stall resulted in seven voting "not guilty" and five voting "guilty". Chaises mother, Britta McNeal, 39, sat on the porch staring blankly into the distance, smoking no-brand cigarettes. Soon, the air was the color of a filthy dishrag. This happened on Sunday. Radley Balko | 5.24.2010 3:00 PM. Fieger alleged a police cover-up. A half-dozen masked officers of. As recently as this week, Fieger said in a press release, thatto date, theCity of Detroithas refused to participate in good faith in any resolution regarding Aiyana's death and continue to deny the family justice. The number was actually 375. A fresh trial was scheduled for December 2013,[29] but actually began in September 2014. Was it death by TV? 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. His partner took the rear entrance. May 16, 2010, 7-year-old Aiyana was asleep on her couch, wrapped in her Hannah Montana blanket. Other auto plants sprang up on the East Side: Packard, Studebaker, Chryslers Dodge Main. A minute later, a friend took the two dollars as a keepsake. 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. The ones pictured here are all found on one block. The mortician charged $700 for the most basic viewing casket, even though the body was to be cremated. 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. Not even you.. I know society looks at a person like me and wants me to go away, she said. [6][7][8] On October 10, the judge declared a mistrial due to jury deadlock. What happened after that is a matter of conjecture, as Detroit officials have had problems getting their stories straight. 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. 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. What the hell you doing up here for? In this shit, a one-year-old played next door, barefoot. Behind the door was Jason Gibson, 25, a violent man with a history of gun crimes, assaults on police, and repeated failures to honor probationary sentences. But the grandmother says she was lying on the far side of the couch, away from the door. 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. This was the first raid on a house since his death. I stared through the windshield at the little boy in the diaper playing amid the ruins, reached over, and switched it off. In August 2014, he was convicted and sentenced to a year in prison on four counts, including false imprisonment and felony cruelty to children. 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. Then she introduced me to her 14-year-old son DeErion, whose remains sat in an urn on the mantel. Its police disinformation.. 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. WAS IT SO SIMPLE? She told me that JeReans best friend Chaise Sherrors, 17, had been murdered the night beforean innocent bystander who took a bullet in the head as he was on a porch clipping someones hair. They were restless and agitated and pulled at the collars of dress blues that didnt seem to fit. Detroit demolishes only 500 homes a year, thanks to concerns over lawsuits and environmental hazards, as well as lack of funds and ineptitude. All Rights Reserved. And now that the papers do cover Detroit, boosters complain about a lack of balance. Murder suspect Chauncey Louis Owens, the target of the raid, will be charged. The environment didnt affect us none, Jones said. That is, until someone realized that the schools are controlled by rival gangs. [37], Weekley's retrial started in September 2014. The day I visited, a Hollywood starlet (PDF) was tailing the doctor, studying for her role as the medical examiner in ABCs new Detroit-based murder drama Detroit 1-8-7. The death of Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones helped increased national awareness of the ongoing issue of unarmed Black Americans being killed by police. 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. 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. [12], An A&E reality TV television crew was accompanying the police Special Response Team gathering footage for The First 48. They were looking for 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. [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. The fire department is little better. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. 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. 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. The prisoner has not incurred any serious misconducts while in prison. 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 . By civic malfeasance? [12][17][18] Officer Weekley claimed that the flash grenade subsequently blinded his view of the person on the couch in the living room. I think its one of the lowest things I have ever seen.. Shoddily equipped firemen face some 500 arsons a month.Detroit has been synonymous with arson since the 80s, when the city burst into flames in a pre-Halloween orgy of fire and destruction known as Devils Night. [4], Officer Joseph Weekley was charged in connection with Jones' killing. By police incompetence? The killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. There is speculation that the attending television crew may have increased the incentive for a glamorised, military-style operation. Over the next 50 years, Detroits East Side would become the worlds machine shop, its factory floor. In 2007, he attacked a cop and tried to take his gun. 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. Juries twice failed to reach a verdict in Weekleys case, first in June 2013 and then in October 2014. People involved. 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. Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy, though his heart did not seem to be in it. There are plenty of good people in Detroit, boosters like to say. At the center of this economic dynamo was Detroit. Danny Wilcox Frazier is a contributing photographer for Mother Jones. It feels like there aint no love no more.. Even if you check the TT's of each city Aiyana is nowhere to . I went to see Fieger to ask him to show me the tape. But JeRean never went to prom, much less the Afghanistan theater, because he couldnt clear the killing fields of Detroit. People are drinking. I asked Fieger if Charles Jones should accept some culpability in his daughters death, considering his alleged role in JeReans murder, the stolen cars found in his backyard, and the fact that his daughter slept on the couch next to an unlocked door. In the process, the gun belonging to police officer Joseph Weekley . 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. Officers deployeda "flash bang" grenadeand kicked in the front door, and raid team leader Joseph Weekley led the crewinto the house. 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 . Aiyana was severely burned and then shot in the head and neck by an unidentified police officer standing on the porch. 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. 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. People are awake. Go ahead, walk in the Detroit River and disappear. But I cant. The landlord of the duplex, Edward Taylor, let me into the Jones apartment. 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. Aiyanas death garnered national attention, including sharp criticism from the Revs. Was Aiyana's legal last name "Jones", "Stanley Jones", or "Stanley-Jones"? JeReans crime? [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. Sometimes they come in a Crown Victoria with only a defibrillator and a blanket, because there are no other units available. [41] "(Jones') parole guideline score placed him in the high probability of parole range," Gautz said in an email. Sherrors was killed by a stray bullet while cutting a friends hair on a front porch just 27 days after JeRean died. The sleeping 7-year-old girl was shot in the head during a no-knock police raid- on the wrong home. As Detroit led the nation in median income and homeownership, automation and foreign competition were forcing companies like Packard to shutter their doors. Police fired a flash grenade through the front window. The Detroit Police Department was in search of a murderer, and mistakenly raided Aiyana's home. Even in Detroit, a predominantly black city. 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.. 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. They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. The settlement was finalized just days prior to the scheduled civil trial. A few minutes after that, JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, arrived and got behind the wheel of the car that friends had dragged him into. Weekley was transferred from the Special Response Team to the Criminal Investigations Bureau. 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. On October 10, the second trial ended in another mistrial. If someone needs a scapegoat for what's happening here - and what's happening here is justice - then put it on me.". Outside, Television was watching them. Skyscrapers sprang up virtually overnight. As a reporter at the Detroit News, I get plenty of phone calls from people in the neighborhoods. [12], Owens was later found guilty of Blake's murder. You dont go into a home around midnight. But Geoffrey Fieger calls it police arrogance. "My sugar is going up from stress. (Thomas Sugrue, in his seminal book The Origins of the Urban Crisis, writes that residents in Detroits predominantly black lower East Side reported 206 rat bites in 1951 and 1952.). But pollution didnt kill Detroit. Charlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, filmmaker, and multimedia reporter. 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 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. Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights. Still, as the American middle class collapses, its worth perhaps remembering that the East Side of Detroitthe place where Aiyana, JeRean, and Officer Huff all diedwas once its industrial cradle. 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. She waited, but Sharpton never came. Detroit VA hospital harmed patients, altered records, investigation reveals, $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Detroit, MI The family of Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a 7-year old girl shot and killed by a Detroit police officer, has received an $8.25 million settlement almost 9 years after the tragic incident. 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. WHat actually happened to this little girl? [9][10] Twenty-five-year-old Charles Jones had just gone to bed after covering his 7-year-old daughter Aiyana with her favorite blanket. You will count 34 churches, a dozen liquor stores, six beauty salons and barber shops, a funeral parlor, a sprawling Chrysler engine and assembly complex working at less than half-capacity, and three dollar storesbut no grocery stores. Mayor Dave Bing spoke. [12] Weekley had been featured on another A&E police reality show, Detroit SWAT. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. But when you call for help, it seems like no ones there. They were wondering if the Rust Belt cancer had metastasized and was creeping to Los Angeles and London and Barcelona. 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. Weekley claimed Aiyana Jones' paternal grandmother, Mertilla Jones, attempted to slap his MP5 submachine gun, causing it to fire. Detroit grew restless. Two days later, a crew from the Detroit Police Special Response Team raided Jones' house on Lillibridge Street, blocks from the store. We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. Seven-year-old Aiyana Jones was asleep on the living room sofa in her family's apartment when Detroit police searching for a homicide suspect burst in and an officer's gun went off, fatally . Rayshard Brooks was a 27-year-old African American restaurant worker who lived in Atlanta. I get no sleep. Ive seen him in the faces of soldiers when I was covering the Iraq War. The city of Detroit has settled a lawsuit with the family of a girl shot and killed by a Detroit police officer nine years ago. Sarah Cwiek joined Michigan Radio in October 2009. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. Weekley insisted he accidentally pulled the trigger during a struggle with Aiyana's grandmother. The poor Negros and hillbillies flooded in shooting and charged for the slaying of JeRean with involuntary manslaughter and endangerment., 39, sat on the porch staring blankly into the distance, smoking cigarettes. 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