The whole country knew it, and the whole country laughed. It feels like there aint no love no more.. 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. And during our conversation, he referred to himself in the third personGeoffrey Fieger. IT WAS JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on the morning of May 16 and the neighbors say the streetlights were out on Lillibridge Street. 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. "[60], In September 2013, J. Cole published a music video dedicated to Jones for his song Crooked Smile, featuring TLC on YouTube. The beavers disappeared from the river around 1930. "My sugar is going up from stress. To avoid the embarrassment of being the nations perpetual murder capital, the police department took to cooking the homicide statistics, reclassifying murders as other crimes or incidents. It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder suspect after throwing a flash grenade to confuse anyone inside. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. She waited, but Sharpton never came. 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? Technicians are currently working on the problem. On April 4, 2019, Aiyanas family settled with Detroit for $8.25 million. On January 28, 2015, the remaining charge on Weekley, a misdemeanor for careless discharge of a firearm causing death, was dismissed. 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. Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones for just $14.95. Behind him stood two rookies. The sad and confusing circumstances of the murders of JeRean Blake and Officer Huff, both black, robbed Sharpton of some of his customary indignation. What I find ironic is a friend of the punks released his video t. Defense attorney Steve Fishman said prosecutors were courageous by closing the case. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. Detroit has since made little progress on the federal consent decree. In Detroit, only 1 in 3 kids will graduate from high school. 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. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. 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. 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. Skyscrapers sprang up virtually overnight. On 16 May 2010, Aiyana was shot dead by Weekley in the middle of the night, as she slept on a sofa inside her home on the east side of Detroit. Predictably, Gibson did not show for his new court date. As Detroit led the nation in median income and homeownership, automation and foreign competition were forcing companies like Packard to shutter their doors. Aiyana was sleeping on the couch next to her grandmother when, just after midnight, Officer Weekley's SWAT team threw a flashbang grenade through the living room window, setting fire to . 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. On his desk is a bronze bust of Geoffrey Fieger. On a hot afternoon around one Mothers Day, I was working in the back greenhouse. The appellatecourt ruledthe presiding judge in Jones'case hadn'tadequately answered jurors' questionsduring deliberations. She was only a baby, man. It just goes on, she said. 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. Its always like that. Folks want to blame Aiyana's "crime ridden" neighborhood for her death. WRSX 91.3 Port Huron is off the air due to network issues. You know? 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. This was the first raid on a house since his death. Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights. 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.". They made it to the trauma ward, where JeRean was pronounced dead. It all happened in a matter of seconds. The raid happened early Sunday morning. Juries twice failed to reach a verdict in Weekleys case, first in June 2013 and then in October 2014. No one cared much about Detroit or its industrial suburbs until the Dow collapsed, the chief executives of the Big Three went to Washington to grovel, and General Motors declared bankruptcy100 years after its founding. The walls are covered with photographs of Geoffrey Fieger. Young Municipal Center in Detroit. After the finale aired, we didn't know whether they're still together or not until the reunion on March 4, but a little social media sleuthing told us they were still . We believe some of them were struck by friendly fire, the high-ranking cop told me. Jones new family had been on the drift for the past few years as he tried to pull it together. There are no fewer than two TV dramas, two documentaries, and three reality programs being filmed here. 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 . [2], After a one-year internal and federal investigation, on October 4, 2011, a grand jury indicted Weekley on involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. Soon, the air was the color of a filthy dishrag. JeRean knew badness was on its way and called his mother to come pick him up. It was unlocked. Robert Bobb was hired in 2009 as the emergency financial manager and given sweeping powers to balance the books. 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. In a photograph from May 2010, Dominika Stanley and Charles Jones hold a picture of their daughter, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in a Detroit courtroom. It went straight through the childs head. He was shot in the head and killed last year. [41] By the end of the following day, police had identified Chauncey Owens as a suspect in Blake's death and obtained a warrant to search 4054 Lillibridge[12] St, where Owens was believed to be hiding. It is a matter of conditioning, Cargill later told me. 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. Known as Half-Day Hathaway, the judge was removed from the bench for six months by the Michigan Supreme Court a decade ago for, among other things, adjourning trials to sneak away on vacation. A total, unfortunate fuck-up.. 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. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter and "negligent firing of a weapon causing death". Her body was transferred to the Wayne County morgue. When we look at accountability and an institution that was not designed for black people and that was not designed in the interest of black people, he says, how do you find justice in an already unjust system?. Weekley insisted he accidentally pulled the trigger during a struggle with Aiyana's grandmother. Jones, 25, a slight man with frizzy braids, wore a dingy T-shirt. . But our ammos so bad, we cant do ballistics testing. 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. Weekley, who retired from the police department in 2019,claimed Mertilla Jones grabbed his rifle, causing it to discharge. In 2019, Jones' family agreed to an $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement against the city of Detroit in connection with the raid. She was seven years old. Fiegers suburban office is a shrine to Geoffrey Fieger. Why you do this to me? Dr. Death. 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. Grover 08:10, 10 June 2014 (UTC) Reply . The illiteracy, child poverty, and unemployment rates hover around 50 percent. Families of people killed by police officers and activists gathered at the feet of the Spirit of Detroit statue in front of the Coleman A. The kids are dropping like fliesespecially young black malesand hes got nothing but useless words.. The frightened black man attempted to save himself. 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. 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. One witness had him pegged for 13 years old. Outside, Television was watching them. As officer Joseph Weekley walks free, another community is demanding answers about the increasing militarisation of law enforcement. He came here for publicity. 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 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. "It bothers them," she said. They killed a child and then they lied about it.. 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. Plus, grenades are rarely used when rounding up suspects, even murder suspects. According to reports, seconds after entering the house, Weekley fired the fatal shot. 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. And TV may have needed some pyrotechnics. I asked him if the way he was raising his daughter, the people he exposed her to, or the neighborhood where they livedwith its decaying houses and liquor storesmay have played a role. 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 Detroit City Council needs to approve the settlement. Cargill said because of COVID-19 restrictions, she was unable to attend Jones' parole hearings to contest his release. 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. In 2007, he attacked a cop and tried to take his gun. She refused to let me see the original paper file, despite the fact that it is a public record, and has said that she cant comment on the case because she might preside in the trial against Gibson. They want to blame her parents and her aunt who is engaged to the murder suspect. 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. [9][10] [39], On October 3, the judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Weekley. Another cruiser with two officers responded as well. 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. A seven-year-old Black girl was fatally during a raid in Detroit, Michigan Police Department in 2010. 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. In Detroit, the official response time of an ambulance to a 911 call is 12 minutes. 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. Im trying to find him, Sheffield complained. [31] In June 2013, Howard pleaded "no contest" to the obstruction of justice charge, and the perjury charge was dismissed. The hospital was six miles away. The change to "Murder of Aiyana Jones" may have been disputed for good reason, but the current one is both neutral and standard (see Death of Ian Tomlinson). [65][unreliable source?] Officers deployeda "flash bang" grenadeand kicked in the front door, and raid team leader Joseph Weekley led the crewinto the house. January 7, 2022 . Bobb did uncover graft and fraud and waste, however. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket.. I know society looks at a person like me and wants me to go away, she said. 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). Officer Joseph Weekley, the lead commandowhod been featured before on another A&E show, Detroit SWATburst into the house. 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. The house next door to his is rubble smelling of burnt pine, pissed on by the spray cans of the East Warren Crips. Sheffield came to see Cargill. BlackPast.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and our EIN is 26-1625373. "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. A former risk manager for the district was indicted for siphoning off $3 million for personal use. I think its abominable. 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. The number was actually 375. 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. Then they said he ran out the back of the house, even though there is no back door. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley is accused of fatally shooting Aiyana during the raid that targeted a murder suspect. God, dont take my baby.. Little Aiyana's death is heartbreaking! 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. [2], Weekley was a member of Detroit's SWAT team and a frequent subject on the A&E Network (A&E), whose film crews were also filming the investigation for the documentary TV series The First 48. What the fuck you looking at?. Even Time bought a house on the East Side last year for $99,000. [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. Home. JeRean might have thought it was funny to see a grown man driving a moped. Assistant prosecutor Rob Moran told the judge that the misdemeanor was being dropped in the "best interests of justice." Word of the free milk and honey made its way down South, and the poor Negros and hillbillies flooded in. To me, thats like writing about the surf conditions in the Gaza Strip. Chief Evans might have survived it all, had he, too, not been drawn to the lights of Hollywood. The day Barrens cleaned out his desk, a burglar cleaned out Barrens house. Capitol Commission moves toward firearm ban, Biden's student loan relief faces its biggest test yet at the Supreme Court, Jury to decide fate of Detroit cop who shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Second trial begins for Detroit police officer who shot Aiyana Jones, Detroit officer faces misdemeanor charge in Aiyana Jones's death; jury deliberating. There is speculation that the attending television crew may have increased the incentive for a glamorised, military-style operation. The killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. His partner took the rear entrance. 3) Weekley's claims that Mertilla Jones grabbed . You should go, he said to me, shattering the silence with a wave of his hand. Mertilla Jones was held overnight by Detroit police and then released. Three officers shot, standoff follows in Kansas City, Mo., police say, Vanessa Bryant, family settles claims over Kobe crash site photos for $28.5M. . Do a Google search for "Aiyana Jones" and you get just 42,200 results. About 40 kids were milling around in front of the soft-serve window. Huff entered with his gun still holstered. 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 . He, too, was about to graduate from Southeastern High. As a reporter at the Detroit News, I get plenty of phone calls from people in the neighborhoods. When I was a teenager, my mother owned a struggling little flower shop on the East Side, not far from where Aiyana was killed. Wage growth is slowing. Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. Thats good news until you realize that in Detroit, some 500 fires are set every single month. As it turns out, he was filming a pilot for his own reality show, entitled The Chief. She thanked me for coming and showed me her home, which was clean and well kept. "We had to do it by paperwork, and they read the letters from my side of the family (during the parole hearing)," Cargill said. 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. Aiyana Jones was killed nine years ago during a police raid gone wrong and no convictions were made. I get no sleep. 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. 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. . and Weekley for the unlawful use of excessive force. Even on Lillibridge Street, the outrage has died down. Aiyana was severely burned and then shot in the head and neck by an unidentified police officer standing on the porch. What? he croaked. I was thinking that, she said with tears. Once at Aiyanas graveside, Charles Jones released a dove. Which is what he was doing at this house, authorities contend, when he put three bullets in Officer Huffs face. You might point to the trade agreements of the Clinton years, which allowed American manufacturers to leave the country by the back door. For that he was given simple probation. [12], Owens was later found guilty of Blake's murder. what happened to aiyana jones. In 2010, a 7-year-old girl, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was slaughtered during a police raid of her home in Detroit. Then eight, then eleven. "They said he'll be on parole until 2030, and he or his family can't be around my family. Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, 7, died May 16, 2010 after being shot by an officer during a police raid in Detroit. And America is buying. 20072023 Blackpast.org. [50][bettersourceneeded] The casket was white and was afterwards driven to the grave by horse-drawn carriage. People are drinking. Henry Ford built his first automobile assembly-line plant in Highland Park in 1908 on the east side of Woodward Avenue, the thoroughfare that divides the east of Detroit from the west. Newspapers made little of ituntil the US Attorney revealed that the federal monitor of the decree was having an affair with the priapic mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was forced to resign, and now sits in prison convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. I want to get out of here, but I cant, she said. Was Detroit an outlier or an epicenter? 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. He looked at Chauncey Owens the wrong way, detectives say. These Wigs Install in Seconds. [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. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. 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. On January 28, 2015, a prosecutor cleared Weekley of the last remaining charge against him, ensuring there would not be a third trial. Sharptons full of shit, said JeReans mother. We hope this resolution will provide everyone involved a measure of closure," Detroit Corporation Counsel Lawrence Garcia said in a statement, according to the Detroit News. It was a sweatbox, and I went across the street to the liquor store for a soda pop. The gimmick was to have its reporters live there and chronicle the decline of the Motor City for one year. 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. First, it was six cops who responded to the 911 call. Then Evans own driver shot a man last October. A man called me once to say he had witnessed a murder, but the police refused to take his statement. Its police disinformation.. 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. That is, until someone realized that the schools are controlled by rival gangs. Her grandmother, Mertilla Jones, was close by. Mayor Dave Bing spoke. 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. Cargill said her two surviving children, a 30-year-old daughter and son, 22, took the news of Jones' pending release hard. By civic malfeasance? At the center of this economic dynamo was Detroit. First published on January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM. [4], Officer Joseph Weekley was charged in connection with Jones' killing. She later went to nursing school but got sidetracked by her own health problems. Some 45,000 abandoned houses pock Detroit. 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. "[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. People my mothers age like to tell me about Detroits good old days of soda fountains and shopping markets and lazy Saturday night drives. "(Jones') parole guideline score placed him in the high probability of parole range," Gautz said in an email. [54][55], Attorney Fieger claimed that footage, from an undisclosed source, showed that the lethal bullet came from outside the home, rather than inside, as police said. [12][17][18] Officer Weekley claimed that the flash grenade subsequently blinded his view of the person on the couch in the living room. Like so many across the country, shes being evicted with no job and no place to go. Now, Jones family attorney Geoffrey Fieger and the city of Detroit confirm theyve settled the case for $8.25 million. 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.". The family is seeking $7.5 million in damages and a jury trial conceded by the court filing. 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