Outside, Television was watching them. It was a sweatbox, and I went across the street to the liquor store for a soda pop. He gives details of the way streets look like at night, and gives a captivating detail of girl's father suffering from insomnia. "This was an assassination by video," said Roland Lawrence as he and others watched a small plane . At its peak popularity, 810 fires were set in a three-day span. The author of "What Killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones" Charlie LeDuff begins with a brief overview of the surroundings in Detroit, where the homicide took place. [49], Aiyana Jones' funeral was held in the Second Ebenezer Church on May 22, 2010 in Detroit. Suddenly, Detroit was historic, symbolichip, even. But if it wasnt for them, the city population would have sunk further than it did. Compounding the tragedy is the fact that the police threw the grenade into the wrong apartment. That house, too, is on the citys East Side, a nondescript brick duplex with a crumbling garage whose driveway funnels into busy Schoenherr Road. The gimmick was to have its reporters live there and chronicle the decline of the Motor City for one year. . They were wondering if the Rust Belt cancer had metastasized and was creeping to Los Angeles and London and Barcelona. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket. On October 4, 2011, a Wayne County grand jury indicted Officer Joseph Weekley for involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. For that he was given simple probation. You might point to the trade agreements of the Clinton years, which allowed American manufacturers to leave the country by the back door. Weekley stated, "A woman inside grabbed my gun. Its about state-sanctioned violence., US police departments are increasingly militarised, finds report, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. I left McNeals porch and started my car. Your donation is fully tax-deductible. Were here today not to find blame, but to find out how we never have to come here again, said Sharpton, standing in the grand pulpit. The bullet hit a child. Coco Jones has lived many lives. What the fuck do you think? he said. The environment didnt affect us none, Jones said. I get no sleep. Weekley was transferred from the Special Response Team to the Criminal Investigations Bureau. Soon, the air was the color of a filthy dishrag. 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. There was no note. His work has appeared in Time, Life, and Newsweek. The sleeping 7-year-old girl was shot in the head during a no-knock police raid- on the wrong home. Little Aiyana's death is heartbreaking! By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. Other auto plants sprang up on the East Side: Packard, Studebaker, Chryslers Dodge Main. 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 . JeRean balled up his tiny fist. Nevertheless, Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans issued a statement May 18. WHat actually happened to this little girl? But it was dark. People my mothers age like to tell me about Detroits good old days of soda fountains and shopping markets and lazy Saturday night drives. 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. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. Thats good news until you realize that in Detroit, some 500 fires are set every single month. So bad is the rivalry that when the schools face off to play football or basketball, spectators from the visiting team are banned. 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. There are at least 50 corpses on hold in his morgue cooler, some unidentified, others whose next of kin are too poor to bury them. The case garnered national headlines for all of the obvious reasons: an innocent child caught in police crosshairs, another black life taken in a city filled with heartache. [12], An A&E reality TV television crew was accompanying the police Special Response Team gathering footage for The First 48. Can she be blamed for that? 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. 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. Not even you.. If youre a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.. He might have smirked. Weekley doesnt have to pay but the family that lost a child has to pay, said Ron Scott, a spokesman for the family, shortly after attending the dismissal hearing. What? he croaked. Then eight, then eleven. On his desk is a bronze bust of Geoffrey Fieger. Two days later, on May 16, police arrived at the house where Aiyana Jones lived, hoping to find Owens. [47], On September 29, Weekley's lawyer asked the judge for a mistrial, citing Mertilla Jones's conduct on the stand the week before. 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 as defendants. People call it police brutality. 2023 www.detroitnews.com. I can accept the shooting was a mistake, Jones said about his daughters death as a bleary-eyed Stanley sat motionless next to him. Legal name. In Detroit, only 1 in 3 kids will graduate from high school. I would have waited until the morning when the guy went to the liquor store to buy a quart of milk. The story smelled to high heaven from the beginning. "He has completed various programming and is active in vocational training. Devils Night is no longer the big deal it used to be, topping out last year at around 65 arsons. A good kid with average grades, JeRean went to Southeastern High, which is situated in an industrial belt of moldering Chrysler assembly plants. But the real mystery behind Officer Huffs murder is why Gibson was out on the street in the first place. Forbidden by restrictive real estate covenants and racist custom, the blacks were mostly restricted to Paradise Valley, which ran the length of Woodward Avenue. [42] While Sanders was on the stand, Judge Cynthia Hathaway told her that she (Sanders) was being "disrespectful. 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. What the fuck you looking at?. In the end, Gibson was charged with Huffs murder and the attempted murders of four more officers. All Rights Reserved. It's hurting me. All Rights Reserved. Sherrors mom, in white, lost another son to a bullet the previous year. Its some lil niggas at the store talking shitlets go whip they ass, Detective Theopolis Williams later testified that Owens told him during his interrogation. The day Barrens cleaned out his desk, a burglar cleaned out Barrens house. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. The walls are covered with photographs of Geoffrey Fieger. 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. 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? 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. With Chief Evans vacationing overseas with a subordinate, Fieger ran wild, holding a press conference where he claimed he had seen videotape of Officer Weekley firing into the house from the porch. The mayors office is said to have a copy, as well as the Michigan State Police, who are now handling the investigation. Police officers came from Canada and across Michigan. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley in court in Detroit, Mich. on June 18, 2013 during his first trial. Jones and two other men known as Lil James and Dirt rode along for JeReans ass-whipping. [61][62][63], In May 2016, BlackMattersUS[64][unreliable source?] 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. Maybe because the cameras were rolling, maybe because a Detroit police officer had been murdered two weeks earlier while trying to apprehend a suspect. Owens sped two blocks back to Lillibridge and gathered up a posse, according to his statement to the police. ], My baby, my baby, my baby. 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. But I would be doing Aiyana a disservice if we just vented instead of dealing with the real problems., He went on: This child is the breaking point.. Not to worry: The city had its own welfare system, decades before Lyndon Johnsons Great Society. AS SUMMER DRAGGED on, the story of Aiyana faded from even the regional press. The ones pictured here are all found on one block. He came here for publicity. In August 2014, he was convicted and sentenced to a year in prison on four counts, including false imprisonment and felony cruelty to children. So what? Fieger barked. Seconds after entering the house, where the grenade had caused Aiyanas blanket to catch fire, Weekley fired one fatal shot. In an echo of deaths at police hands that rocked the US last year, including those of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York, Officer Weekley is white and Stanley-Jones was black. AIYANAS FAMILY retained Geoffrey Fieger, the flamboyant, brass-knuckled lawyer who represented Dr. Jack Kevorkiana.k.a. Me? Sarah Cwiek joined Michigan Radio in October 2009. It was all for the cameras. 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. Jones was born on July 20, 2002, to Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley in Detroit. During the second trial, Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed the most serious charge, involuntary manslaughter, saying there was insufficient evidence. The flashbacks. 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 . and Weekley for the unlawful use of excessive force. 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. You know? [36] Aiyana's case would be the longest presiding case that Hathaway had in more than 20 years of being on the bench. A former risk manager for the district was indicted for siphoning off $3 million for personal use. By wit and will, he managed to make it through. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. That night, she was murdered by the very people meant to "protect" and "serve" her. The city grew to 1.3 million people from 300,000 after Ford opened his Model T factory. The entire botched nighttime raid was captured on camera by crews from the A&E show The First 48. Police Chief James Craig stated, "He'll be in a limited duty capacity. By parental neglect? "It bothers them," she said. She later went to nursing school but got sidetracked by her own health problems. 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. 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 . War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing. The sad and confusing circumstances of the murders of JeRean Blake and Officer Huff, both black, robbed Sharpton of some of his customary indignation. May 16, 2010, 7-year-old Aiyana was asleep on her couch, wrapped in her Hannah Montana blanket. That tape never aired, but it was used as evidence in Weekleys two trials for Aiyanas death. But according to a witness, he said nothing. Word of the free milk and honey made its way down South, and the poor Negros and hillbillies flooded in. [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. They were looking for a murder suspect. In Detroit, the official response time of an ambulance to a 911 call is 12 minutes. Copyright 2023 Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. The department was also cited for excessive force after people died in lockup and at the hands of rogue cops. 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. We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. Aiyana Jones' step aunt Kayia White and step mom Dominique Simpson, right, sit on the front porch next to a blood spattered sofa in Detroit on . Somebody should have told company executives back in New York that they had wildly overpaid. In this way, what happened to J Cole's daughter? They drove her there every morning, five miles. Within seconds, Weekleyfired hisMP5 rifle, killingAiyana, who was sleeping on the living room couch with her grandmother Mertilla Jones. I mean, hiring the Rosa Parks carriage?, I dont owe Sheffield shit, says Jones. Her body was transferred to the Wayne County morgue. It just goes on, she said. 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. I am sick. 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. Owens switched his moped for a Chevy Blazer. The mortician charged $700 for the most basic viewing casket, even though the body was to be cremated. While a thousand people mourned the tragic death of Aiyana, the body of JeRean Blake Nobles sat in a refrigerator at a local funeral parlor; his mother was too poor to bury him herself and too respectful to bury him until after the little girls funeral, anyhow. When I moved back to Detroit two years ago, I profiled a firehouse on the East Side. 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. His retrial began in September 2014. You dont go into a home around midnight. But the people of Lillibridge Street still look like theyve been picked up by their hair and dropped from the rooftop. Blame the Federal Reserve. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. There is speculation that the attending television crew may have increased the incentive for a glamorised, military-style operation. She denied grabbing the weapon. [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 crumbling houses still crumble. In the witness box in September, Jones said: Im laying there screaming, asking someone to help my granddaughter because he shot her in the head. The smell was beastly. Evans brought a refreshing honesty to a department plagued by ineptitude and secrecy. Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway address the court on Friday. While other American metropolises have gotten control of their murder rate, Detroits remains where it was during the crack epidemic. You might blame postwar industrial policies that sent the factories to the suburbs, the rural South, and the western deserts. In a photograph from May 2010, Dominika Stanley and Charles Jones hold a picture of their daughter, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in a Detroit courtroom. / AP. It is a matter of conditioning, Cargill later told me. 1:46 Detroit After nearly five years, the officer who accidentally killed 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones during a raid being filmed by a TV camera crew has been restored to active duty as a. Terms of Service apply. What happened after that is a matter of conjecture, as Detroit officials have had problems getting their stories straight. Cargill said because of COVID-19 restrictions, she was unable to attend Jones' parole hearings to contest his release. Social media and keyword searches can tell much about the popularity and worth of a topic. Thats how its supposed to be done.. He got paid exactly what he was supposed to be paid.. His body was transferred to Dr. Schmidt and the Wayne County morgue. "[21][22], Mertilla Jones said she reached for her granddaughter when the grenade came through the window, not for the officer's gun, because the flash grenade had set the child on fire. I wouldnt wish this on nobody in the world. 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. His mothers house on Lillibridge, he said, was just supposed to be a way station to better things. McNeal wondered how she was going to pay the $3,000 for her sons funeral. You might blame the UAW, which demanded things like full pay for idle workers, or myopic Big Three management who, instead of saying no, simply tacked the cost onto the price of a car. 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.. 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. It all happened in a matter of seconds. The morning after he was shot, Chaises clippers were mysteriously deposited on his front porch, wiped clean and free of hair. A small donation would help us keep this available to all. 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. She was seven years old. The blood was congealing into a pancake on the dirty linoleum. The president of the school board, Otis Mathis, recently admitted that he had only rudimentary writing skills shortly before being forced to resign for fondling himself during a meeting with the school superintendent. 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. Police report that they arrested the suspect at the duplex where the . 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. It means uncertainty and abandonment and psychopathology. Aiyana Jones was killed nine years ago during a police raid gone wrong and no convictions were made. Weekley, who retired from the police department in 2019,claimed Mertilla Jones grabbed his rifle, causing it to discharge. 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 family is seeking $7.5 million in damages and a jury trial conceded by the court filing. Owens, a habitual criminal, was arrested upstairs minutes after Aiyanas shooting and charged for the slaying of JeRean. 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. 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. Were taking whats left.. [52], A civil rights lawsuit questioned Weekley's account of the incident, claiming the grenade had gone through the window and struck Aiyana. 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. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. 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. Another cruiser with two officers responded as well. "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. The manslaughter trial was declared a mistrial. 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. Why you looking at me? said Owens, getting off the moped. [38] Police first floated the story that Aiyanas grandmother had grabbed Weekleys gun. Forget about it. It is like that all over Detroit, where whole blocks regularly go dark with no warning or any apparent pattern. Dr. Death. [2], After the shot was fired, Weekley reported to his sergeant that a woman inside had grabbed for his gun. The judge said she's willing to be the "scapegoat" if critics don't like the result. First published on January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM. [23] At Weekley's retrial in 2014, it was disclosed that Mertilla's fingerprints were not found on Weekley's gun. 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 . The whole country knew it, and the whole country laughed. A small crowd of agitated black people was gathered on the sidewalk. The beavers disappeared from the river around 1930. Some 45,000 abandoned houses pock Detroit. About 40 kids were milling around in front of the soft-serve window. Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.. The service was held at Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit, a drab cake-shaped megachurch near the Chrysler Freeway. Do a Google search for "Aiyana Jones" and you get just 42,200 results. And America is buying. Jones was born on July 20, 2002, to Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley in Detroit, Michigan. The car made Detroit, and the car unmade Detroit. [32][33] Allison Howard was sentenced to two years of probation in July 2013, and fined $2,000. The illiteracy, child poverty, and unemployment rates hover around 50 percent. 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. [6][7][8] [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. If that isnt a record for any major metropolis, it is certainly a record for Detroit. PICTURES: Aiyana Jones, 7, Killed by Cop Weekley, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter, said he didn't immediately realize that he had shot Aiyana during the 2010 house raid. JeReans mother drove as he gurgled in the backseat. Plus, grenades are rarely used when rounding up suspects, even murder suspects. [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'. Evans driver dropped him with a single shot. Today75 years after the beavers disappeared from the Detroit RiverDetroitism means something completely different. As a reporter at the Detroit News, I get plenty of phone calls from people in the neighborhoods. . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder. In Los Angeles, by comparison, the unsolved-murder rate is 22 percent. They were conducting a police raid in search of a. Barry, who has been active in demonstrations against police violence and whose organization has mounted a formal campaign to demilitarize the police, said there were two separate justice systems in the US. 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