The killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. You might say that the homicide of Aiyana is the natural conclusion to the disease from which she suffered, Schmidt told me. [16], Aiyana Jones was the daughter of Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley. That's it. "Aiyana's death was a tragic loss for her family and has been a heavy burden on our community. The story rated three paragraphs in the daily papers, and the media never followed up. I stared through the windshield at the little boy in the diaper playing amid the ruins, reached over, and switched it off. 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. "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. When I moved back to Detroit two years ago, I profiled a firehouse on the East Side. And there are. JeRean might have thought it was funny to see a grown man driving a moped. 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. His mothers house on Lillibridge, he said, was just supposed to be a way station to better things. I have . These Wigs Install in Seconds. [30], Allison Howard, a videographer and photographer with A&E who was also present at the raid, was indicted on obstruction of justice and perjury for allegedly "copying, showing or giving video footage that she shot of the raid to third parties". 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.. There were even toys on the lawn. But if it wasnt for them, the city population would have sunk further than it did. Family: 7-year-old shot by police was asleep. Her body was transferred to the Wayne County morgue. 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. The entire botched nighttime raid was captured on camera by crews from the A&E show The First 48. The city filled with people from all over the world: Arabs, Appalachians, Poles, African Americans, all in their separate neighborhoods surrounding the factories. She's irresponsible," said Ron Scott, referring to Hathaway's decision to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter charge before a jury at the second trial could consider it. The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. Seconds after Aiyana's blanket caught fire, the SWAT team stormed through the door, and mistakenly shot Aiyana through the neck, killing her. 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. He computerized daily crime statistics, created a mobile strike force commanded by young and educated go-getters, and dispatched cops to crime hot spots. You know? That is, until someone realized that the schools are controlled by rival gangs. So bad is it for Detroits children that Education Secretary Arne Duncan said last year, I lose sleep over that one.. Its always like that. Outside, three men were loading the boiler, tubs, and sinks into a trailer to take to the scrap yard. Aiyanas death garnered national attention, including sharp criticism from the Revs. In Chief Evans defense, he seemed to understand one thing: After the collapse of the car industry and the implosion of the real estate bubble, there is little else Detroit has to export except its misery. Jones broke down during testimony and had to be escorted out amid sobbing after addressing Weekley who was also in the courtroom directly. People are awake. So what? Fieger barked. Defense attorney Steve Fishman said prosecutors were courageous by closing the case. But our ammos so bad, we cant do ballistics testing. 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 . IT WAS JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on the morning of May 16 and the neighbors say the streetlights were out on Lillibridge Street. His retrial began in September 2014. "(Jones is) the one who gave (Owens) the gun to kill their brother. A good kid with average grades, JeRean went to Southeastern High, which is situated in an industrial belt of moldering Chrysler assembly plants. Weekley will not go to a third trial. By parental neglect? The city provided clothing, fuel, rent, and $10 every week to adults for food; children got $5. DETROITS EAST SIDE is now the poorest, most violent quarter of Americas poorest, most violent big city. [2], After the shot was fired, Weekley reported to his sergeant that a woman inside had grabbed for his gun. Inexplicably, its carcass still stands and burns incessantly. 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. It all happened in a matter of seconds. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. Mertilla Jones was held overnight by Detroit police and then released. A good kid who showed neighborhood children how to work electric clippers, his dream was to open a barbershop. 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. The crime most likely happened at the . Her parents say they hope Aiyana will be remembered as more than a symbol of heightened tension in a city in crisis. Chauncey Owens, the uncle wanted on murder charges, was said to be going in and out of the house as normal and could have been apprehended during the day. He assigned the SWAT team the job of rounding up murder suspects, a task that had previously been done by detectives. Thirty-four hours earlier, JeRean Blake Nobles, 17, had been shot outside a liquor store on nearby Mack Avenue; an informant had IDd a man named Chauncey Owens as the shooter and provided this address. The landlord of the duplex, Edward Taylor, let me into the Jones apartment. Compounding the tragedy is the fact that the police threw the grenade into the wrong apartment. It was Jameson who finally dragged Huff out of the house and gave him CPR in the driveway, across the street from the Boys & Girls Club. 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. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and People taking advanage of my benevolence. Like so many across the country, shes being evicted with no job and no place to go. Cargill said her two surviving children, a 30-year-old daughter and son, 22, took the news of Jones' pending release hard. The house next door to his is rubble smelling of burnt pine, pissed on by the spray cans of the East Warren Crips. For years it was the all-but-official policy of the newspapers to ignore the black city, since the majority of readers lived in the predominantly white suburbs. But he doesnt return my calls. They were conducting a police raid in search of a. 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.". In a photograph from May 2010, Dominika Stanley and Charles Jones hold a picture of their daughter, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in a Detroit courtroom. Dante Barry, a 26-year-old organizer and executive director of the Million Hoodies Movement for Justice, said the outcome of the case was disappointing but not surprising. The ones pictured here are all found on one block. 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. Weekley left the courtroom through a private door. Almost half of all adults are illiterate.Duncan may lie awake, but many civic leaders appear to walk around with their eyes sealed shut. 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? Inside, splayed on the floor underneath the rack of snack cakes near the register, was a black man in a pool of blood. "This was an assassination by video," said Roland Lawrence as he and others watched a small plane . The kids are dropping like fliesespecially young black malesand hes got nothing but useless words.. WHat actually happened to this little girl? [38] Parts of the Detroit River are now clean enough for swimming. People my mothers age like to tell me about Detroits good old days of soda fountains and shopping markets and lazy Saturday night drives. There are plenty of good people in Detroit, boosters like to say. The walls are covered with photographs of Geoffrey Fieger. If such a thing could be true, Chaises neighborhood is worse than JeReans. They killed a child and then they lied about it.. 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 conceit of the show is that homicide detectives have 48 hours to crack a murder case before the trail goes cold. The First 48 photographer Allison Howard was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she slept on a couch in a Detroit home in 2010. In this way, what happened to J Cole's daughter? Chaises mother, Britta McNeal, 39, sat on the porch staring blankly into the distance, smoking no-brand cigarettes. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. She was seven years old. What killed Aiyana is what killed the people in New Orleans and the rider on the transit in Oakland, and thats police bullets and police arrogance and police cover-up, Geoffrey Fieger said. People involved. AIYANA WAS LAID TO REST six days after her killing. Then Huff got killed. They still owe me rent, he said with a face about the Joneses. The dismissal was at the request of Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy, who called the decision, which by law cannot be appealed, unfortunate. 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/. Sometimes they come in a Crown Victoria with only a defibrillator and a blanket, because there are no other units available. Evans told me then that major crimes were routinely underreported by 20 percent. Police fired a flash grenade through the front window. 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. The Rev. Go ahead, walk in the Detroit River and disappear. But I cant. As officer Joseph Weekley walks free, another community is demanding answers about the increasing militarisation of law enforcement. Thats when Owens, 34, pulled up on a moped. Devils Night is no longer the big deal it used to be, topping out last year at around 65 arsons. I was thinking that, she said with tears. His motive, authorities say, was that the teen failed to pay him the proper respect. It was unlocked. Officer Joseph Weekley, the lead commandowhod been featured before on another A&E show, Detroit SWATburst into the house. 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. 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. [23] At Weekley's retrial in 2014, it was disclosed that Mertilla's fingerprints were not found on Weekley's gun. The title is derived from the California penal code for murder: 187. 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. War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing. This has helped reinforce a culture shift within police departments. Detroit grew restless. 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. Was it inevitable, as the doctor said, that abject poverty would lead to Aiyanas death and so many others? Two years later he was sentenced to an additional 12 months for violating . Ive seen him in the faces of soldiers when I was covering the Iraq War. It feels like there aint no love no more.. Chief Evans might have survived it all, had he, too, not been drawn to the lights of Hollywood. ReverendAl Sharpton gave the eulogy. [37], Weekley's retrial started in September 2014. Not even you.. Some 45,000 abandoned houses pock Detroit. "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. The frightened black man attempted to save himself. 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. No one can answer that fully. 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 . These girls are the lucky ones. 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. The illiteracy, child poverty, and unemployment rates hover around 50 percent. The service was held at Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit, a drab cake-shaped megachurch near the Chrysler Freeway. At the center of this economic dynamo was Detroit. Jones, 25, a slight man with frizzy braids, wore a dingy T-shirt. [59], On April 2, 2015, nearly five years following Jones's death, Officer Weekley was returned to active duty as a Detroit police officer. Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones was asleep on the sofa when a police SWAT team hurled a flash-bang grenade into the apartment and smashed the front door down. Officials said Gibson ran out the front of the house. January 7, 2022 . It's us but for your ears. 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. Evans brought a refreshing honesty to a department plagued by ineptitude and secrecy. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket. But when you call for help, it seems like no ones there. 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 raid happened early Sunday morning. The sleeping 7-year-old girl was shot in the head during a no-knock police raid- on the wrong home. His eyes and mouth were open and held that milky expression of a drunk who has fallen asleep with his eyes open. I get no sleep. Maybe because the cameras were rolling, maybe because a Detroit police officer had been murdered two weeks earlier while trying to apprehend a suspect. Weekley stated, "A woman inside grabbed my gun. Sharptons full of shit, said Cargill, a brassy 39-year-old who works as a stock clerk at Target. Weekley said it was an accident and accused Jones of wrestling with his gun immediately as he entered the abode, causing the fatal shot. In the case of the night Aiyana was killed, many feel the situation did not call for a military-style bust at midnight. Do you got a problem or something? Aiyana Stanley-Jones was 7 years old when she was killed by a single bullet to the head. Weekley insisted he accidentally pulled the trigger during a struggle with Aiyana's grandmother. Was Aiyana's legal last name "Jones", "Stanley Jones", or "Stanley-Jones"? For instance, in 2008 a man was shot in the head. 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. The Detroit Free Press has more details here. When I was a teenager, my mother owned a struggling little flower shop on the East Side, not far from where Aiyana was killed. As Officer Weekley wept on the sidewalk, Aiyana was rushed to the trauma table, where she was pronounced dead. [41][44][45][46] Because of Mertilla Jones's outburst, the judge stopped the trial until September 29. Aiyana Jones was 7 when she was killed in a police raid. Aiyana's mother Dominika Stanley, and paternal grandmother Mertilla testified, and both had "emotional outbursts." On May 16, 2010, 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones was shot and killed in her sleep by Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley after he accidentally entered the wrong apartment in an unannounced SWAT team raid. [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'. Mayor Dave Bing spoke. Jarrette Jones and Iyanna McNeely. Rayshard Brooks was a 27-year-old African American restaurant worker who lived in Atlanta. The official went on to say that the SWAT team was not briefed about the presence of children in the house, although the neighborhood informant who led homicide detectives to the Lillibridge address told them that children lived there. 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. And Ive got to say in all my years in the department, Ive never used a flash-bang in a case like this.. The lawsuit charges Rowe[who?] She was only a baby, man. Why would anyone move a gunshot victim, much less toss him in a car? The store bell jingled its little requiem as I pulled the door open. Weekleys trial began in June 2013 and ended in a mistrial when a jury failed to reach a verdict. [12], According to press reports, police were on the scene by 12:40a.m. on Sunday, May 16, 2010. [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. Nor is corruption a black or liberal thing. Jones new family had been on the drift for the past few years as he tried to pull it together. No Glue or Lace Hiring Black Folks. He, too, was about to graduate from Southeastern High. I got no money. Aiyana Jones was killed nine years ago during a police raid gone wrong and no convictions were made. Killing of Aiyana Jones. The suspect fingered for Blakes murder, Chauncey Owens, lived in the upstairs flat, with Charles Jones sister. The hospital was six miles away. The individual being sought at the multi-family dwelling was a suspect in a murder that took place at about 3:00 p.m. the previous Friday. So bad is the rivalry that when the schools face off to play football or basketball, spectators from the visiting team are banned. Forget about it. Detroit VA hospital harmed patients, altered records, investigation reveals, $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. First, it was six cops who responded to the 911 call. He came here for publicity. held a small rally in memory of Jones. The camera crew was not inside the house when the girl was hit. [49], Aiyana Jones' funeral was held in the Second Ebenezer Church on May 22, 2010 in Detroit. One ran off. I called the fire department to ask for its statistics. Were going to pull people over for traffic violations and were going to take their cars if theyre not legal. The radio was tuned to NPR and A Prairie Home Companion came warbling out of my speakers. The settlement was finalized just days prior to the scheduled civil trial. Juries twice failed to reach a verdict in Weekleys case, first in June 2013 and then in October 2014. DETROIT - At the prosecutor's request, a judge on Friday dismissed the last charge against a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a 7-year-old girl during a raid. The red halo around his skull gave the scene a feeling of serenity. [20] He pushed his way inside, protected by a ballistic shield. On a hot afternoon around one Mothers Day, I was working in the back greenhouse. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. 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