It also allowed a man to escape the smoldering city. JeRean balled up his tiny fist. Evans driver dropped him with a single shot. The police were . Evans told me then that major crimes were routinely underreported by 20 percent. What killed Aiyana is what killed the people in New Orleans and the rider on the transit in Oakland, and thats police bullets and police arrogance and police cover-up, Jones lawyer said. It was all for the cameras. Im not representing the father; Im speaking for the daughter. He also pointed out that while Jones remains a person of interest in JeReans murder, he has not been arrested. Aiyanas pink-robed body was carried away by a horse-drawn carriage to the Trinity Cemetery, the same carriage that five years earlier had taken the body of Rosa Parks to Woodlawn Cemetery on the citys West Side. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket. January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM . Thats five times as many as New York, in a city one-tenth the size. 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. 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. The entire botched nighttime raid was captured on camera by crews from the A&E show The First 48. They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. Until there wasnt. People my mothers age like to tell me about Detroits good old days of soda fountains and shopping markets and lazy Saturday night drives. Behind him stood two rookies. Like so many across the country, shes being evicted with no job and no place to go. Was Detroit an outlier or an epicenter? Dr. Carl Schmidt is the chief medical examiner there. One question that lurked behind the scenes of the Aiyana Jones trial was whether the fact that producers from A&E's 'The First 48' played any role in what happened the night Aiyana died. Murder suspect Chauncey Louis Owens, the target of the raid, will be charged. (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.). Then came the homicide-by-cop of little Aiyana. It was a sweatbox, and I went across the street to the liquor store for a soda pop. Do a Google search for "Aiyana Jones" and you get just 42,200 results. After the grandmother's outburst, the judge ordered the jury out of the room and the grandmother was escorted from the court room screaming. 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. If he didn't give him the gun, they feel like their brother would still be alive, and Aiyana would still be alive.". what happened to aiyana jones. What happened after that is a matter of conjecture, as Detroit officials have had problems getting their stories straight. Mother Jones was founded as a nonprofit in 1976 because we knew corporations and billionaires wouldn't fund the type of hard-hitting journalism we set out to do. This is not about policing, he said. One witness had him pegged for 13 years old. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. The man stopped, turned, and pulled a gun. Thats how its supposed to be done.. It would also help inspire the creation of the Black Lives Matter Movementthree years later. I am sick. I went to see Fieger to ask him to show me the tape. I got no money. The Detroit City Council needs to approve the settlement. The car made Detroit, and the car unmade Detroit. He caught a lunch lady stealing the childrens milk money. Al Sharpton spoke her eulogy. [65][unreliable source?] And now that the papers do cover Detroit, boosters complain about a lack of balance. Chief Evans might have survived it all, had he, too, not been drawn to the lights of Hollywood. "Aiyana's death was a tragic loss for her family and has been a heavy burden on our community. Seconds after Aiyana's blanket caught fire, the SWAT team stormed through the door, and mistakenly shot Aiyana through the neck, killing her. She later went to nursing school but got sidetracked by her own health problems. [41][44][45][46] Because of Mertilla Jones's outburst, the judge stopped the trial until September 29. 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. Owens didn't like the way the Southeastern High School teen had looked at him, according to court testimony. 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. Today75 years after the beavers disappeared from the Detroit RiverDetroitism means something completely different. I think its abominable. 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. [25], Chauncey Owens, the suspect who the raid was intended to apprehend and boyfriend of Aiyana's aunt LaKrystal Sanders,[26] was found in the upper-floor apartment of the duplex and surrendered without incident. Inside, splayed on the floor underneath the rack of snack cakes near the register, was a black man in a pool of blood. [12] Charles Jones, Aiyana's father, wore a black suit, pink tie and pink handkerchief in remembrance of his daughter as pink was her favorite color. 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. You might blame Coleman Youngthe citys first black mayorand his culture of cronyism. In August 2014, he was convicted and sentenced to a year in prison on four counts, including false imprisonment and felony cruelty to children. But McNeal messed upshe admits as much. [61][62][63], In May 2016, BlackMattersUS[64][unreliable source?] There was no note. 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. Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones for just $14.95. Detroit. Its too late.. Weekley left the courtroom through a private door. 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. As far-fetched as what happened to the Joneses may sound, they are not . An investigation was promised. They still owe me rent, he said with a face about the Joneses. On May 21, 2016, nearly six years after Joness death, the Detroit chapter of Black Lives Matter organized the first rally in her memory. You dont go into a home around midnight. Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. Sanders was Aiyana Jones's paternal aunt, the girlfriend of Chauncey Owens, and the daughter of Mertilla Jones. Somebody should have told company executives back in New York that they had wildly overpaid. . Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.. (Theyd jerry-rigged a contraption where the fax pushes a door hinge, which falls on a screw wired to an actual alarm.) / AP. "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. "This was an assassination by video," said Roland Lawrence as he and others watched a small plane . Thats when Owens, 34, pulled up on a moped. His partner took the rear entrance. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter and "negligent firing of a weapon causing death". She was seven years old. I stared through the windshield at the little boy in the diaper playing amid the ruins, reached over, and switched it off. Then Huff got killed. I was allowed to meet with Charles Jones the following morning at Fiegers office, but with the caveat that I could only ask him questions about the evening his daughter was killed. [5] JEREAN BLAKE NOBLES was one of the rare black males in Detroit who made it (PDF) through high school. The official version was that two men were walking in the middle of a street on the East Side when Evans and his driver told them to walk on the sidewalk. It feels like there aint no love no more.. About 40 kids were milling around in front of the soft-serve window. I was thinking that, she said with tears. 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. Parts of the Detroit River are now clean enough for swimming. First, it was six cops who responded to the 911 call. Aiyana Stanley-Jones, pictured in family photograph. Completed in 1917, the school, attended by white students at the time, was considered so far out in the wilds that its athletic teams took the nickname Jungaleers.. I saw him in the face of my sister, who died a violent death in a filthy section of Detroit a decade ago. [6][7][8] On October 10, the judge declared a mistrial due to jury deadlock. Lord Jesus, I ain't never seen nothing like that in my life."--Mertilla Jones, Aiyana's grandmother. 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Cole dedicates video to dead 7-year-old girl", "J. Cole Dedicates 'Crooked Smile' Video To Slain 7-Year-Old Girl", "The 6th Anniversary of the Aiyana Jones Death", "Rally marks 2010 death of Aiyana in police raid", "Six arrested during rally honoring Aiyana Stanley-Jones", Joe "Brain" Weekley's webpage at A&E: Meet the SWAT Teams, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Killing_of_Aiyana_Jones&oldid=1139956467, This page was last edited on 17 February 2023, at 18:19. [CLICK HERE FOR CHARLIE LEDUFFS EXPOSE ON THE DETROIT AMBULANCE SYSTEM. Not all of us are blessed.. 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 floor above Jones' on May 16, 2010. It means uncertainty and abandonment and psychopathology. All Rights Reserved. It went straight through the childs head. We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. [2], After the shot was fired, Weekley reported to his sergeant that a woman inside had grabbed for his gun. When I was a teenager, my mother owned a struggling little flower shop on the East Side, not far from where Aiyana was killed. 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 has since made little progress on the federal consent decree. Outside court, a spokesman for Aiyana's family criticized the judge for her comments. Detroit grew restless. Short answer: Yesand no. There is speculation that the attending television crew may have increased the incentive for a glamorised, military-style operation. The flower shop is just a pile of bricks now, but despite what the Arab told me, I did not forget what I saw. His murder led to the police raid that killed Aiyana.With large swaths of the city rewildingempty lots are returning to prairie and woodland as the city depopulatesSoutheastern was slated to absorb students from nearby Kettering High this year as part of a massive school-consolidation effort. Other auto plants sprang up on the East Side: Packard, Studebaker, Chryslers Dodge Main. She arrived too late. It's us but for your ears. 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 . 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. A fresh trial was scheduled for December 2013,[29] but actually began in September 2014. Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she slept on a couch in a Detroit home in 2010. According to reports, seconds after entering the house, Weekley fired the fatal shot. If someone needs a scapegoat for what's happening here - and what's happening here is justice - then put it on me.". There were even toys on the lawn. In this way, what happened to J Cole's daughter? 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. Fugitive in $18 million COVID fraud scheme extradited to U.S. ended without verdicts on a charge of reckless use of a gun. I have . Officer Joseph Weekley, the lead commandowhod been featured before on another A&E show, Detroit SWATburst into the house. Owens sped two blocks back to Lillibridge and gathered up a posse, according to his statement to the police. Thats a hell of a pair of bookends, I offered. Furthermore, the police department and unnamed supervisors of the Special Response Team in the city of Detroit were being sued for violating the civil rights of Aiyana Jones through their training and policy procedure. She later explained that she reached for her granddaughter when the grenade came through the window and that is what caused her to hit the officers gun. But the fact is Detroit and its suburbs were dying 40 years ago. There are two elementary schools in the area, both in desperate need of a lawnmower and a can of paint. 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 . They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. So bad is the rivalry that when the schools face off to play football or basketball, spectators from the visiting team are banned. Aiyana Jones was 7 when she was killed in a police raid. His mothers house on Lillibridge, he said, was just supposed to be a way station to better things. [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. Its now just another abandoned house in Detroit.. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. At the prosecutors request, Hathaway dismissed the last charge against Joseph Weekley. Aiyana Jones was killed nine years ago during a police raid gone wrong and no convictions were made. African American History: Research Guides & Websites, Global African History: Research Guides & Websites, African American Scientists and Technicians of the Manhattan Project, Envoys, Diplomatic Ministers, & Ambassadors, Foundation, Organization, and Corporate Supporters. That factory closed in 1956 and was left to rot, pulling down the East Side, which pulled down the city. Sarah Cwiek joined Michigan Radio in October 2009. 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. People involved. The story smelled to high heaven from the beginning. Its always like that. [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. Soon, the air was the color of a filthy dishrag. The store bell jingled its little requiem as I pulled the door open. Ive seen him in the faces of soldiers when I was covering the Iraq War. Jones broke down during testimony and had to be escorted out amid sobbing after addressing Weekley who was also in the courtroom directly. [6][7][8] Weekley will not go to a third trial. What the hell you doing up here for? Why would anyone move a gunshot victim, much less toss him in a car? God, dont take my baby.. Listen on Apple Podcasts. May 16, 2010, 7-year-old Aiyana was asleep on her couch, wrapped in her Hannah Montana blanket. The ones pictured here are all found on one block. Oh, stay your ass right here, Owens growled. But according to a witness, he said nothing. Have him call me, and then hung up the phone. 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. Officials said Gibson ran out the front of the house. If such a thing could be true, Chaises neighborhood is worse than JeReans. 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. They turned on the lights and saw that she had been shot.. Three officers shot, standoff follows in Kansas City, Mo., police say, Vanessa Bryant, family settles claims over Kobe crash site photos for $28.5M. Defense attorney Steve Fishman said prosecutors were courageous by closing the case. Dr. Death. She denied grabbing the weapon. 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. But I cant accept it because they lied about it. WAS IT SO SIMPLE? They were conducting a police raid in search of a. 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. But I felt unraveling this one death could help diagnose what has gone wrong in this city, so I decided to retrace the events leading up to that pitiable moment on the porch on Lillibridge Street. Can she be blamed for that? Jones and two other men known as Lil James and Dirt rode along for JeReans ass-whipping. Sharptons full of shit, said JeReans mother. Police Chief James Craig stated, "He'll be in a limited duty capacity. 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. He was shot in the head and killed last year. The streetlights still go on and off. The bullet hit a child. I get no sleep. ReverendAl Sharpton gave the eulogy. An Arab family owned the store, and one of the menthe one with the pocked face and loud voicewas talking on the telephone, but I remember no sounds. Im alive. held a small rally in memory of Jones. I think its one of the lowest things I have ever seen.. Devils Night is no longer the big deal it used to be, topping out last year at around 65 arsons. 91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids It is like that all over Detroit, where whole blocks regularly go dark with no warning or any apparent pattern. Which is what he was doing at this house, authorities contend, when he put three bullets in Officer Huffs face. The posse allegedly included Aiyanas father, Charles C.J. Jones. 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. Another cruiser with two officers responded as well. Within seconds, Weekleyfired hisMP5 rifle, killingAiyana, who was sleeping on the living room couch with her grandmother Mertilla Jones. David Corn, Noah Lanard, and Dan Friedman. Instead of being protected, communities are treated like the enemy, the report found with a disproportionate effect on communities of color. Then, realizing that sounded implausible, they said shed brushed the gun as she ran past the door. One ran off. "[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. A man called me once to say he had witnessed a murder, but the police refused to take his statement. Nor is corruption a black or liberal thing. Plus, grenades are rarely used when rounding up suspects, even murder suspects. Forego a bottle of soda and donate its cost to us for the information you just learned, and feel good about helping to make it available to everyone. 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. 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. Blame the Federal Reserve. [42] While Sanders was on the stand, Judge Cynthia Hathaway told her that she (Sanders) was being "disrespectful. [56] A spokesman for city police demanded that Fieger share the tape's contents with Michigan State Police investigators. 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 . [66] On July 20, 2016 Detroit police arrested six unknown individuals for chaining themselves to a precinct of the Detroit Police Department, their protest honoring Jones. The walls are covered with photographs of Geoffrey Fieger. We noticed you have an ad blocker on. He won't be in the field. It fired. 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. The title is derived from the California penal code for murder: 187. The victim, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was shot in the head while she slept on a couch in May 2010. 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?. A member of JROTC, he was on his way to the military recruitment office after senior prom and commencement. 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. Police first floated the story that Aiyanas grandmother had grabbed Weekleys gun. Thats good news until you realize that in Detroit, some 500 fires are set every single month. Nevertheless, Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans issued a statement May 18. The Jones family also sued Weekley and the Detroit Police Department in 2015. 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 was a white cop who killed the girl, but Detroit is Americas largest black city with a black mayor and a black chief of police. But in 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, 25, a slight man with frizzy braids, wore a dingy T-shirt. [41] A woman was in his car, the motor running. He was formerly a reporter for The Detroit News. The lawsuit asserts that police were outside of the home where they "blindly fired random shots," and one of the bullets fatally struck the 7-year-old child in the neck. The dismissal was at the request of Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy, who called the decision, which by law cannot be appealed, unfortunate. They had time, a Detroit police detective told me. According to the police, Officer Joseph Weekley was the first police officer to enter the home. Why you do this to me? 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