By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. Huff entered with his gun still holstered. In 2010, a 7-year-old girl, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was slaughtered during a police raid of her home in Detroit. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. It also allowed a man to escape the smoldering city. 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. Im alive. [51] She was buried on the grounds. Do you find this information helpful? By parental neglect? "[60], In September 2013, J. Cole published a music video dedicated to Jones for his song Crooked Smile, featuring TLC on YouTube. The Detroit City Council needs to approve the settlement. 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 victim, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was shot in the head while she slept on a couch in May 2010. The problem once the police start amassing these kinds of weapons and tools and absorb a certain mentality, is it just increases the probability that they are going to deploy it even when not warranted, Edwards says. A fresh trial was scheduled for December 2013,[29] but actually began in September 2014. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Then Evans own driver shot a man last October. After the grandmother's outburst, the judge ordered the jury out of the room and the grandmother was escorted from the court room screaming. Even Time bought a house on the East Side last year for $99,000. [12] She was one of three children of the couple and had four halfsiblings. They made it to the trauma ward, where JeRean was pronounced dead. 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. The crime most likely happened at the . In Detroit, the official response time of an ambulance to a 911 call is 12 minutes. [59], On April 2, 2015, nearly five years following Jones's death, Officer Weekley was returned to active duty as a Detroit police officer. I can accept the shooting was a mistake, Jones said about his daughters death as a bleary-eyed Stanley sat motionless next to him. In a photograph from May 2010, Dominika Stanley and Charles Jones hold a picture of their daughter, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in a Detroit courtroom. Judge Hathaway emphasized that two juries, in 2013 and 2014, couldn't reach a unanimous verdict. A small donation would help us keep this available to all. Horace Sheffield, a local version of Sharpton, got stiffed for $4,000 in funeral costs, claiming Aiyanas father made off with the donations people gave to cover it. Detroit has since made little progress on the federal consent decree. Now Detroit has fewer than 800,000 people, is 83 percent black, and is the only American city that has surpassed a million people and dipped back below that threshold. Somebody should have told company executives back in New York that they had wildly overpaid. Desperation, she said, feels like someones reaching down your throat and ripping out your guts. Why you looking at me? said Owens, getting off the moped. His partner took the rear entrance. Sarah Cwiek joined Michigan Radio in October 2009. This could be a precedent setting case if the Court . At the time Owens was the boyfriend of Joness aunt LaKrystal Sanders, who was also living at the house. 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. She arrived too late. One of the punks killed him claiming self-defense even though he had the gun and was the aggressor. When I moved back to Detroit two years ago, I profiled a firehouse on the East Side. "My sugar is going up from stress. "[42][43] JeReans crime? It feels like there aint no love no more.. A small crowd of agitated black people was gathered on the sidewalk. (Theyd jerry-rigged a contraption where the fax pushes a door hinge, which falls on a screw wired to an actual alarm.) Copyright 2023 Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. 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. Three officers shot, standoff follows in Kansas City, Mo., police say, Vanessa Bryant, family settles claims over Kobe crash site photos for $28.5M. She looked at her barefoot grandson playing in the wreckage of the dwelling next door and wondered if he would make it to manhood. I got no money. Not all of us are blessed.. The story smelled to high heaven from the beginning. Its about state-sanctioned violence., US police departments are increasingly militarised, finds report, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. For community members and advocates, the bigger question is why a Swat team was deployed in the first place. I got something for you.. You might blame it on the urban renewal and interstate highway projects that rammed a freeway down the middle of Paradise Valley, displacing thousands of blacks and packing the Negro tenements tighter still. They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. A half-dozen masked officers of the Special Response TeamDetroits version of SWATwere at the door, guns drawn. 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 . Not to worry: The city had its own welfare system, decades before Lyndon Johnsons Great Society. The fact is a police officer threw the flash grenade through the window of the house that landed on Aiyana's blanket . The morning after he was shot, Chaises clippers were mysteriously deposited on his front porch, wiped clean and free of hair. The civil rights lawsuit was filed in federal court Wednesday by attorney Geoffrey Fieger over the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones. No one can answer that fully. 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. But Geoffrey Fieger calls it police arrogance. What occurred next has been disputed by police officers, bystanders, and neighboring residents. 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. But pollution didnt kill Detroit. The trial of a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a seven-year-old girl began today.Officer Joseph Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones during . 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. In this way, what happened to J Cole's daughter? He came here for publicity. 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. All Rights Reserved. Twenty-five-year-old Charles Jones had just gone to bed after covering his 7-year-old daughter Aiyana with her favorite blanket. Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. 2:45 Detroit Charles Jones, whose role in a high school student's 2010 slaying helped spark the police raid that ended with the officer-involved shooting death of his 7-year-old daughter. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket. Evans drivera copgave chase. [56] A spokesman for city police demanded that Fieger share the tape's contents with Michigan State Police investigators. 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. A total, unfortunate fuck-up.. [12], An A&E reality TV television crew was accompanying the police Special Response Team gathering footage for The First 48. Bagpipes played and the rain fell. 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. The police were . 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. 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. They were restless and agitated and pulled at the collars of dress blues that didnt seem to fit. 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. Which is what he was doing at this house, authorities contend, when he put three bullets in Officer Huffs face. Her grandmother, Mertilla Jones, was close by. As Officer Weekley wept on the sidewalk, Aiyana was rushed to the trauma table, where she was pronounced dead. Thats when Owens, 34, pulled up on a moped. His brother stood over the dead man, a pistol in his hand, keeping an eye on the door in case someone walked in wanting to settle things. I mean, hiring the Rosa Parks carriage?, I dont owe Sheffield shit, says Jones. [49], Aiyana Jones' funeral was held in the Second Ebenezer Church on May 22, 2010 in Detroit. [19], Police officers, bystanders, and residents of the home disagreed about the events that followed. 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. Both sons now sit in urns on her mantel.Chaise lived on the other side of the Chrysler complex. In fact, there are no chain grocery stores in all of Detroit. 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. I went to visit Cargill, who lived just around the way. 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. This has helped reinforce a culture shift within police departments. It went straight through the childs head. Weekley claimed Aiyana Jones' paternal grandmother, Mertilla Jones, attempted to slap his MP5 submachine gun, causing it to fire. The Rust Belt. He gives details of the way streets look like at night, and gives a captivating detail of girl's father suffering from insomnia. He, too, was about to graduate from Southeastern High. [5] Police arrested Mertilla, administered tests for drugs and gunpowder, and released her Sunday morning. WHat actually happened to this little girl? DETROIT - At the prosecutor's request, a judge on Friday dismissed the last charge against a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a 7-year-old girl during a raid. 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