Weekley insisted he accidentally pulled the trigger during a struggle with Aiyana's grandmother. The civil rights lawsuit was filed in federal court Wednesday by attorney Geoffrey Fieger over the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones. 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. 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. We believe today's settlement is fair because it balances the needs of Aiyana's family and our responsibility for the city's finances. Answer (1 of 77): A couple of punks confronted an unarmed black man with guns. We believe some of them were struck by friendly fire, the high-ranking cop told me. During the second trial, Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed the most serious charge, involuntary manslaughter, saying there was insufficient evidence. That house, too, is on the citys East Side, a nondescript brick duplex with a crumbling garage whose driveway funnels into busy Schoenherr Road. [23] At Weekley's retrial in 2014, it was disclosed that Mertilla's fingerprints were not found on Weekley's gun. WRSX 91.3 Port Huron is off the air due to network issues. 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. And Ive got to say in all my years in the department, Ive never used a flash-bang in a case like this.. 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. Much of the firefighters equipment was substandard: Their boots had holes; they were alerted to fires by fax from the central office. Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she slept on a couch in a Detroit home in 2010. I am sick as hell. He computerized daily crime statistics, created a mobile strike force commanded by young and educated go-getters, and dispatched cops to crime hot spots. "She's not a scapegoat. [36] Aiyana's case would be the longest presiding case that Hathaway had in more than 20 years of being on the bench. I need help. I am sick. 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). The family is seeking $7.5 million in damages and a jury trial conceded by the court filing. Oh, stay your ass right here, Owens growled. "But I can tell you this: If anyone is looking for a scapegoat for justice, then you've got one here as owner, coach and quarterback. 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. 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. On May 21, 2016, nearly six years after Joness death, the Detroit chapter of Black Lives Matter organized the first rally in her memory. Sarah Cwiek joined Michigan Radio in October 2009. . Technicians are currently working on the problem. Gibson is a tall, thick-necked man who, like the character Omar from The Wire, made his living robbing dope houses. Ive seen him in the faces of soldiers when I was covering the Iraq War. 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. [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. [56] A spokesman for city police demanded that Fieger share the tape's contents with Michigan State Police investigators. Take for instance the death of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was shot and killed during a police raid at their Detroit home. Jones and two other men known as Lil James and Dirt rode along for JeReans ass-whipping. Evans drivera copgave chase. I mean, hiring the Rosa Parks carriage?, I dont owe Sheffield shit, says Jones. [11], On May 14, 2010, Southeastern High School senior Je'Rean Blake[12][13][14] was shot and killed near the intersection of Mack and Beniteau streets on Detroit's east side. Thats when Owens, 34, pulled up on a moped. A reality TV crew recorded the scene from the street. It feels like there aint no love no more.. Then Huff got killed. What does the science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic? 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 bullet hit a child. [16], Aiyana Jones was the daughter of Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley. Three ISO members describe what happened when a neo-Nazi . Thats how its supposed to be done.. That's it. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? Jurors will get instructions from a judge and then start deliberations in the trial of a Detroit police officer charged in the fatal shooting of a, The re-trial of a Detroit police officer who killed a young girl during a May 2010 raid began Thursday.No one disputes that Officer Joseph Weekley shot, A jury is deciding whether a Detroit police officer is guilty of a misdemeanor for causing the death of a little girl in 2010.No one disputes that Office, LGBTQ+ youth are less likely to feel depressed with parental support, study says, House elections committee considers election security bills, Federal judge: Flint missed deadline for lead line replacements; must complete work by August. The department was also cited for excessive force after people died in lockup and at the hands of rogue cops. [12] Owens was in the upstairs apartment. ", The mother of Jones' victim, Lyvonne Cargill, said: "I'm stressed thinking about that man coming home." 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. It's now Monday at 10:30pm. But JeRean never went to prom, much less the Afghanistan theater, because he couldnt clear the killing fields of Detroit. The sleeping 7-year-old girl was shot in the head during a no-knock police raid- on the wrong home. I can accept the shooting was a mistake, Jones said about his daughters death as a bleary-eyed Stanley sat motionless next to him. By police incompetence? Aiyana's mother Dominika Stanley, and paternal grandmother Mertilla testified, and both had "emotional outbursts." Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, 7, died May 16, 2010 after being shot by an officer during a police raid in Detroit. 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. Then, realizing that sounded implausible, they said shed brushed the gun as she ran past the door. Protestors pleaded for the termination of Officer Weekley as he had been selected to co-chair the Detroit Police Department's Committee on Race and Equality. He admitted in his first trial that, "It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl. Huff entered with his gun still holstered. Forget about it. This has helped reinforce a culture shift within police departments. 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. The accident has led to outrage in Detroit, directed at police. 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. Many are as fucked up and sad as Aiyanas. 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. 91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 Flint. Terms of Service apply. [39], On October 3, the judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Weekley. There are no fewer than two TV dramas, two documentaries, and three reality programs being filmed here. As it turns out, he was filming a pilot for his own reality show, entitled The Chief. "It bothers them," she said. 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. Sherrors was killed by a stray bullet while cutting a friends hair on a front porch just 27 days after JeRean died. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. The city grew to 1.3 million people from 300,000 after Ford opened his Model T factory. They killed a child and then they lied about it.. [12] She was one of three children of the couple and had four halfsiblings. 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 Jones was 7 when she was killed in a police raid. Thats five times as many as New York, in a city one-tenth the size. Detroit. [65][unreliable source?] He has three boys with Aiyanas mother, Dominika Stanley, and three boys with another woman, whom he had left long ago. Its going to stop, he promised. 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. She denied grabbing the weapon. The Detroit City Council needs to approve the settlement. 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. He looked at Chauncey Owens the wrong way, detectives say. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. Fugitive in $18 million COVID fraud scheme extradited to U.S. ended without verdicts on a charge of reckless use of a gun. But Geoffrey Fieger calls it police arrogance. 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. And TV may have needed some pyrotechnics. He, too, was about to graduate from Southeastern High. And during our conversation, he referred to himself in the third personGeoffrey Fieger. [30], Allison Howard, a videographer and photographer with A&E who was also present at the raid, was indicted on obstruction of justice and perjury for allegedly "copying, showing or giving video footage that she shot of the raid to third parties". But police officials have refused to discuss how one got shot in the foot. I saw him in the face of my sisters daughter, who died from a heroin overdose in a suburban basement near the interstate, weeks after I moved back to Michigan with my wife to raise our daughter and take a job with the Detroit News. 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. Nor is corruption a black or liberal thing. I cant heal properly because of it. 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 . "They said he'll be on parole until 2030, and he or his family can't be around my family. Im stuck. So is the house across the street. 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. JeReans crime? Stanley suddenly emerged from her stupor: Whats that got to do with it? she hissed. His mothers house on Lillibridge, he said, was just supposed to be a way station to better things. Why you looking at me? said Owens, getting off the moped. The whole country knew it, and the whole country laughed. Even if you check the TT's of each city Aiyana is nowhere to . It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder. His retrial began in September 2014. Murder suspect Chauncey Louis Owens, the target of the raid, will be charged. The prisoner has not incurred any serious misconducts while in prison. Weekley claimed his gun accidentally went off as he struggled with the girls grandmother, Mertilla Jones. Joneswas retried in 2019 for manslaughter and for being a habitual offender, and was sentenced to 10-20 years, with2,841 days credit for time served. It also allowed a man to escape the smoldering city. Once at Aiyanas graveside, Charles Jones released a dove. [12] Weekley had been featured on another A&E police reality show, Detroit SWAT. In Los Angeles, by comparison, the unsolved-murder rate is 22 percent. [12], An A&E reality TV television crew was accompanying the police Special Response Team gathering footage for The First 48. School wasnt a priority. They went hog wild. Someone radioed in, and more police arrivedbut the official story of what happened that night has changed repeatedly. [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. That tape never aired, but it was used as evidence in Weekleys two trials for Aiyanas death. 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. 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. She waited, but Sharpton never came. Copyright 2023 Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. The police were searching for a murder suspect thought to be in the Jones home. He didn't elaborate. 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. Soon, the air was the color of a filthy dishrag. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley is accused of fatally shooting Aiyana during the raid that targeted a murder suspect. 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 killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. My daughter got love, honor, and respect. [19], Police officers, bystanders, and residents of the home disagreed about the events that followed. The Detroit Free Press has more details here. In the process, the gun belonging to police officer Joseph Weekley . 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. The family of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was murdered by Detroit police more than two years ago, is still waiting for justice. The city provided clothing, fuel, rent, and $10 every week to adults for food; children got $5. January 7, 2022 . Judge Hathaway emphasized that two juries, in 2013 and 2014, couldn't reach a unanimous verdict. 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. . Tens of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands. The suspect fingered for Blakes murder, Chauncey Owens, lived in the upstairs flat, with Charles Jones sister. So there should have been a parade with confetti and tanks of lemonade, but instead, the complaints about overaggressive cops began to roll in. They made it to the trauma ward, where JeRean was pronounced dead. Its too late.. I think its one of the lowest things I have ever seen.. 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. "[60], In September 2013, J. Cole published a music video dedicated to Jones for his song Crooked Smile, featuring TLC on YouTube. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. [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. Jones broke down during testimony and had to be escorted out amid sobbing after addressing Weekley who was also in the courtroom directly. Desperation, she said, feels like someones reaching down your throat and ripping out your guts. 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. They had time, a Detroit police detective told me. Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. Weekley was the first officer to enter the home, seconds after a flashbang grenade a war device created by the British SAS in the 1960s to disorient with a blinding flash and a temporarily deafening noise was lobbed into it. I saw him in the face of my sister, who died a violent death in a filthy section of Detroit a decade ago. The walls are covered with photographs of Geoffrey Fieger. Inexplicably, its carcass still stands and burns incessantly. A good kid with average grades, JeRean went to Southeastern High, which is situated in an industrial belt of moldering Chrysler assembly plants. 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. The First 48 photographer Allison Howard was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. [31] In June 2013, Howard pleaded "no contest" to the obstruction of justice charge, and the perjury charge was dismissed. FEMAIL reveals what has happened to . What the fuck you looking at?. 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. Owens, a habitual criminal, was arrested upstairs minutes after Aiyanas shooting and charged for the slaying of JeRean. Besides, there was always a job in America when you needed one. 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. Charlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, filmmaker, and multimedia reporter. He became a horrifying statisticone of 103 kids and teens murdered between January 2009 and July 2010. European intellectuals wondered at the whirl of building and spending in the new America. It would be easy to lay the blame on McNeal for the circumstances in which she raised her sons. Bagpipes played and the rain fell. The story rated three paragraphs in the daily papers, and the media never followed up. But it was dark. A good kid who showed neighborhood children how to work electric clippers, his dream was to open a barbershop. As our Detroit reporter, she is helping us expand our coverage of the economy, politics, and culture in and around the city of Detroit. 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. 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. Detroit grew restless. 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. Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. The conceit of the show is that homicide detectives have 48 hours to crack a murder case before the trail goes cold. 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. Sheffield came to see Cargill. There was no note. 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. The streetlights still go on and off. The store bell jingled its little requiem as I pulled the door open. They were wondering if the Rust Belt cancer had metastasized and was creeping to Los Angeles and London and Barcelona. 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 . Look at the Trending Topics on Twitter. But there is no money; the struggling school system has a $363 million deficit. 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?. Six individuals, who chained themselves to a Detroit Police Department precinct, were arrested Wednesday evening during a rally honoring Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a 7-year old who was shot and. The flashbacks. Two days later, a crew from the Detroit Police Special Response Team raided Jones' house on Lillibridge Street, blocks from the store. The death of Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones helped increased national awareness of the ongoing issue of unarmed Black Americans being killed by police. 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. Parts of the Detroit River are now clean enough for swimming. Casei Jones, 32, and her four children Cameron Bowers, 10, Preston Bowers, 5, Mercalli Jones, 2, and Aiyana Jones, 1, were missing for almost a month. On his desk is a bronze bust of Geoffrey Fieger. The story smelled to high heaven from the beginning. 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. They still owe me rent, he said with a face about the Joneses. On October 10, the second trial ended in another mistrial. Both trials ended with hung juries. [9][10] Later that day, Detroit Police identified Chauncey Owens as a suspect in the shooting and a warrant was issued for his arrest. 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. DETROITS EAST SIDE is now the poorest, most violent quarter of Americas poorest, most violent big city. As for the videotape of the killing, Geoffrey Fieger said he did not have it. Have him call me, and then hung up the phone. Jones, 25, a slight man with frizzy braids, wore a dingy T-shirt. 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. What did? IT MIGHT BE a stretch to see anything more than Detroits problems in Detroits problems. If such a thing could be true, Chaises neighborhood is worse than JeReans. 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. As Officer Weekley wept on the sidewalk, Aiyana was rushed to the trauma table, where she was pronounced dead. He gives details of the way streets look like at night, and gives a captivating detail of girl's father suffering from insomnia. One ran off. For community members and advocates, the bigger question is why a Swat team was deployed in the first place. Aiyana was severely burned and then shot in the head and neck by an unidentified police officer standing on the porch. 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. 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. This could be a precedent setting case if the Court . The appellatecourt ruledthe presiding judge in Jones'case hadn'tadequately answered jurors' questionsduring deliberations. Predictably, Gibson did not show for his new court date. His motive, authorities say, was that the teen failed to pay him the proper respect. I think its evil. But according to a witness, he said nothing. At the center of this economic dynamo was Detroit. On October 4, 2011, a Wayne County grand jury indicted Officer Joseph Weekley for involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. His body was transferred to Dr. Schmidt and the Wayne County morgue. [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. [42] While Sanders was on the stand, Judge Cynthia Hathaway told her that she (Sanders) was being "disrespectful. I forgive him, but I don't forget what he did.". It means uncertainty and abandonment and psychopathology. 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. They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. 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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. Man who, like the character Omar from the street scene from the central.. Tape never aired, but it was used as evidence in Weekleys trials. The trauma table, where JeRean was pronounced dead on parole until 2030, and then shot in the during... Between January 2009 and July 2010 him the proper respect tax-deductible ) and. Nowhere to what happened to aiyana jones our budget the faces of soldiers when I was covering the Iraq War robbing houses! 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