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. A thousand people attended, as did the predictable plump of media. 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. But pollution didnt kill Detroit. As it turns out, he was filming a pilot for his own reality show, entitled The Chief. They killed a child and then they lied about it.. But even he couldnt stanch the tsunami of red ink; the deficit ballooned more than $140 million under his guidance. [12], An A&E reality TV television crew was accompanying the police Special Response Team gathering footage for The First 48. As for the struggles of a generation of living people, the murder of a hundred children, they ask me: Whats new in that?. 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. "[27] His trial was scheduled for October[28] and finally took place in June 2013 but resulted in a deadlocked jury. But the people of Lillibridge Street still look like theyve been picked up by their hair and dropped from the rooftop. I know society looks at a person like me and wants me to go away, she said. The appellatecourt ruledthe presiding judge in Jones'case hadn'tadequately answered jurors' questionsduring deliberations. 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. By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. No Glue or Lace Hiring Black Folks. Which is what he was doing at this house, authorities contend, when he put three bullets in Officer Huffs face. Detroit VA hospital harmed patients, altered records, investigation reveals, $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. 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 . Young Municipal Center in Detroit. Cargill said her two surviving children, a 30-year-old daughter and son, 22, took the news of Jones' pending release hard. One year after a Detroit police assault team shot 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones to death in her home while A&E's "First 48" TV show was filming, neither Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy nor U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has brought charges against those responsible. Weekley still is charged with careless discharge of a firearm causing death in the May 2010 shooting, which happened as police executed a search warrant for a murder suspect. The Detroit chapter of the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) and Black Lives Matter Detroit organized the rally on what would have been her 14th birthday. What 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. But there is no money; the struggling school system has a $363 million deficit. 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). 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. Juries twice failed to reach a verdict in Weekleys case, first in June 2013 and then in October 2014. Its police disinformation.. A member of JROTC, he was on his way to the military recruitment office after senior prom and commencement. Forget about it. The sleeping 7-year-old girl was shot in the head during a no-knock police raid- on the wrong home. On January 28, 2015, a prosecutor cleared Weekley of the last remaining charge against him, ensuring there would not be a third trial. European intellectuals wondered at the whirl of building and spending in the new America. Within seconds, Weekleyfired hisMP5 rifle, killingAiyana, who was sleeping on the living room couch with her grandmother Mertilla Jones. The manslaughter trial was declared a mistrial. As recently as this week, Fieger said in a press release, thatto date, theCity of Detroithas refused to participate in good faith in any resolution regarding Aiyana's death and continue to deny the family justice. He came here for publicity. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. Family: 7-year-old shot by police was asleep. First published on January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM. BlackPast.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and our EIN is 26-1625373. 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. Seconds after entering the house, where the grenade had caused Aiyanas blanket to catch fire, Weekley fired one fatal shot. Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights. The home was the target of a midnight Swat-style operation designed to arrest her uncle who was living in the apartment upstairs and was the main suspect in the murder of a teenager a couple days before. It fired. Clutching his juice in one hand and two dollars in the other, JeRean staggered across Mack Avenue and collapsed in the street. In 2010 Aiyana MoNay Stanley-Jones, a seven-year-old African American girl, was accidentally shot and killedduring a raid that was conducted by the Detroit,Michigan Police Departments Special Response Team. AIYANA WAS LAID TO REST six days after her killing. On April 4, 2019, Aiyanas family settled with Detroit for $8.25 million. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. You might blame postwar industrial policies that sent the factories to the suburbs, the rural South, and the western deserts. 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. Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. One man, who wanted to turn himself in for a murder, gave up trying to call the Detroit police; he drove to Ohio and turned himself in there. War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing. [47], On September 29, Weekley's lawyer asked the judge for a mistrial, citing Mertilla Jones's conduct on the stand the week before. 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. 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. I saw him in the face of my sister, who died a violent death in a filthy section of Detroit a decade ago. Somebody should have told company executives back in New York that they had wildly overpaid. He said. After the fatal shooting, the video concludes with a message dedicated to Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a 7-year-old girl who was shot and killed during a police raid on her house in Detroit back in. 2023 www.detroitnews.com. Listen on Apple Podcasts. Its always like that. Evans driver dropped him with a single shot. He was formerly a reporter for The Detroit News. So there should have been a parade with confetti and tanks of lemonade, but instead, the complaints about overaggressive cops began to roll in. My daughter got love, honor, and respect. The Rev. Both sons now sit in urns on her mantel.Chaise lived on the other side of the Chrysler complex. Even in Detroit, a predominantly black city. Sherrors mom, in white, lost another son to a bullet the previous year. He has three boys with Aiyanas mother, Dominika Stanley, and three boys with another woman, whom he had left long ago. . Chief Evans might have survived it all, had he, too, not been drawn to the lights of Hollywood. By civic malfeasance? 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. 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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. I get no sleep. The posse allegedly included Aiyanas father, Charles C.J. Jones. There is speculation that the attending television crew may have increased the incentive for a glamorised, military-style operation. IT WAS JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on the morning of May 16 and the neighbors say the streetlights were out on Lillibridge Street. . On Thursday, a settlement was made in the lawsuit that amounted to $8.25 being paid out. He became a horrifying statisticone of 103 kids and teens murdered between January 2009 and July 2010. While other American metropolises have gotten control of their murder rate, Detroits remains where it was during the crack epidemic. Gibson is a tall, thick-necked man who, like the character Omar from The Wire, made his living robbing dope houses. I was thinking that, she said with tears. [9][10] Lyvonne Cargill wears a shirt that honors her son, JeRean Blake Nobles. The crumbling houses still crumble. 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. There was no note. Even on Lillibridge Street, the outrage has died down. Weekley insisted he accidentally pulled the trigger during a struggle with Aiyana's grandmother. In the case of the night Aiyana was killed, many feel the situation did not call for a military-style bust at midnight. Much of the firefighters equipment was substandard: Their boots had holes; they were alerted to fires by fax from the central office. [41] Social media and keyword searches can tell much about the popularity and worth of a topic. "[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. The man stopped, turned, and pulled a gun. 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. February 24, 2023. You dont go into a home around midnight. It feels like there aint no love no more.. Even the beavers have returned.The daughter of an autoworker and a home nurse, McNeal grew up in the promise of the black middle class that Detroit once offered. Even Time bought a house on the East Side last year for $99,000. JeRean might have thought it was funny to see a grown man driving a moped. His weapon fired a single shot, the bullet striking Aiyana in the head and exiting her neck. 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. [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. Sometimes they come in a Crown Victoria with only a defibrillator and a blanket, because there are no other units available. 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. So bad is it for Detroits children that Education Secretary Arne Duncan said last year, I lose sleep over that one.. I got something for you.. The department decided to withdraw him from active duty shortly after the shooting on May 16, 2010. Bobb did uncover graft and fraud and waste, however. Aiyana was buried in a white casket which was driven to her grave site by a horse-drawn carriage. Owens switched his moped for a Chevy Blazer. 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. Thats five times as many as New York, in a city one-tenth the size. 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. Defense attorney Steve Fishman said prosecutors were courageous by closing the case. Jones was arrested, and though she was quickly released it was not before she and two other family members Aiyanas parents had been forced to sit in their childs blood for hours, Scott said. In the end, Gibson was charged with Huffs murder and the attempted murders of four more officers. Inside, toys, Hannah Montana shoes, and a pyramid of KFC cartons were left to rot. [6][7][8] The city reached a peak population of 1.9 million people in the 1950s, and it was 83 percent white. Paramedics say it is routinely much longer. There were even toys on the lawn. Seconds after Aiyana's blanket caught fire, the SWAT team stormed through the door, and mistakenly shot Aiyana through the neck, killing her. David Corn, Noah Lanard, and Dan Friedman. And America is buying. When I moved back to Detroit two years ago, I profiled a firehouse on the East Side. Thats how its supposed to be done.. 3) Weekley's claims that Mertilla Jones grabbed . 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. The day Barrens cleaned out his desk, a burglar cleaned out Barrens house. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was sleeping in her home on the east side of Detroit on the night of May 16, 2010, when officers barged into the house. 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. 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. [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. 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. They were wondering if the Rust Belt cancer had metastasized and was creeping to Los Angeles and London and Barcelona. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. That year, the police said there were 306 homicidesuntil I began digging. Jones does not have a release date identified, although he could be freed as early as Thursday, Gautz said. What happened after that is a matter of conjecture, as Detroit officials have had problems getting their stories straight. His seven-year-old daughter, Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones (PDF), slept on the couch as her grandmother watched television. They were looking for a murder suspect. A retrial began on September 23, 2014 but on October 3, 2014, it was declared a mistrial after a second jury deadlocked on a verdict. 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. 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.. So bad is the rivalry that when the schools face off to play football or basketball, spectators from the visiting team are banned. Uncategorized. On October 4, 2011, a Wayne County grand jury indicted Officer Joseph Weekley for involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. The city filled with people from all over the world: Arabs, Appalachians, Poles, African Americans, all in their separate neighborhoods surrounding the factories. The streetlights still go on and off. That night, she was murdered by the very people meant to "protect" and "serve" her. The SWAT team tried the steel door to the building. The department was also cited for excessive force after people died in lockup and at the hands of rogue cops. In Detroit, a new car costs more than the average house. [4], Officer Joseph Weekley was charged in connection with Jones' killing. Im stuck. A half-dozen masked officers of. But he doesnt return my calls. After the grandmother's outburst, the judge ordered the jury out of the room and the grandmother was escorted from the court room screaming. Mayor Dave Bing spoke. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. Once at Aiyanas graveside, Charles Jones released a dove. An 11th-grade dropout and convicted robber, he said he supported his seven children with a little this, a little thatI got a few tricks and trades.. You can blame it on the John Deere mechanical cotton-picker of 1950, which uprooted the sharecropper and sent him north looking for a livingwhere he found he was locked out of the factories by the unions. 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. Suddenly, Detroit was historic, symbolichip, even. [39][40], On the second day of trial, September 24, LaKrystal Sanders, who lived on the upper floor of the house where Aiyana was killed, testified. and Weekley for the unlawful use of excessive force. Aiyana was severely burned and then shot in the head and neck by an unidentified police officer standing on the porch. In October, judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed a charge of involuntary manslaughter, citing a lack of evidence. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? [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. 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. Outside, three men were loading the boiler, tubs, and sinks into a trailer to take to the scrap yard. In a photograph from May 2010, Dominika Stanley and Charles Jones hold a picture of their daughter, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in a Detroit courtroom. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. 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. He, too, was about to graduate from Southeastern High. 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. We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. However, the judge also said if Mertilla Jones and the other relatives continued to have outbursts on the stand, then she would declare a mistrial. 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. Her parents say they hope Aiyana will be remembered as more than a symbol of heightened tension in a city in crisis. Tens of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands. The family of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was murdered by Detroit police more than two years ago, is still waiting for justice. Of course I would. They want to blame her parents and her aunt who is engaged to the murder suspect. There are some 10,000 unsolved homicides dating back to 1960. He caught a lunch lady stealing the childrens milk money. January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM These girls are the lucky ones. It also allowed a man to escape the smoldering city. 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. Sharptons people called JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, promising to come over to her house after Aiyanas funeral. His partner took the rear entrance. What the hell you doing up here for? She arrived too late. Not even you.. 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. 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 . Sheffield came to see Cargill. Plus, grenades are rarely used when rounding up suspects, even murder suspects. [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. 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. House after Aiyanas funeral factories to the building even on Lillibridge Street attended, as did the plump. Stanley, and three boys with Aiyanas Mother, Dominika Stanley, Dan. The appellatecourt ruledthe presiding judge in Jones'case hadn'tadequately answered jurors ' questionsduring deliberations striking Aiyana in the Street intellectuals. Gray Hathaway dismissed a charge of involuntary manslaughter, citing a lack of evidence million.. 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