That night, she was murdered by the very people meant to "protect" and "serve" her. 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. 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.. . From all indications it appears that police operation were flawed and heavily influenced by camera crews who were filming the raid for A&E's crime show "The First 48," according to a published report. In an echo of deaths at police hands that rocked the US last year, including those of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York, Officer Weekley is white and Stanley-Jones was black. 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. If that isnt a record for any major metropolis, it is certainly a record for Detroit. Tens of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands. Seconds after Aiyana's blanket caught fire, the SWAT team stormed through the door, and mistakenly shot Aiyana through the neck, killing her. My daughter got love, honor, and respect. Instead of being protected, communities are treated like the enemy, the report found with a disproportionate effect on communities of color. Inside, toys, Hannah Montana shoes, and a pyramid of KFC cartons were left to rot. In the end, Gibson was charged with Huffs murder and the attempted murders of four more officers. 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 occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder. I began to get calls from reporters around the world wondering what Detroit was like, what was happening here. [4], Officer Joseph Weekley was charged in connection with Jones' killing. 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. One of the punks killed him claiming self-defense even though he had the gun and was the aggressor. 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 raising serious concern among national groups over an increasingly militarized police force. The family of a 7-year-old girl who was fatally shot during a May 2010 police raid is suing the Detroit officer involved in the incident, Detroit News reports.. What? he croaked. 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. The frightened black man attempted to save himself. Her death drew national media attention and led U.S. Representative John Conyers to ask U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for a federal . Evans was fired. On October 4, 2011, a Wayne County grand jury indicted Officer Joseph Weekley for involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. 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. Legal name. The number was actually 375. 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. You know? School wasnt a priority. The accident has led to outrage in Detroit, directed at police. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. And during our conversation, he referred to himself in the third personGeoffrey Fieger. And America is buying. 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. He came here for publicity. 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 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. In Detroit, the official response time of an ambulance to a 911 call is 12 minutes. You should go, he said to me, shattering the silence with a wave of his hand. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. [59], On April 2, 2015, nearly five years following Jones's death, Officer Weekley was returned to active duty as a Detroit police officer. 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. [47], On September 29, Weekley's lawyer asked the judge for a mistrial, citing Mertilla Jones's conduct on the stand the week before. The Detroit Police Department was in search of a murderer, and mistakenly raided Aiyana's home. All Rights Reserved. [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. Two days later, a crew from the Detroit Police Special Response Team raided Jones' house on Lillibridge Street, blocks from the store. Maybe because the cameras were rolling, maybe because a Detroit police officer had been murdered two weeks earlier while trying to apprehend a suspect. Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway address the court on Friday. His seven-year-old daughter, Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones (PDF), slept on the couch as her grandmother watched television. Copyright 2023 Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. Weekley claimed Aiyana Jones' paternal grandmother, Mertilla Jones, attempted to slap his MP5 submachine gun, causing it to fire. JeRean knew badness was on its way and called his mother to come pick him up. The walls are covered with photographs of Geoffrey Fieger. The case had been set to go to trial next week. I am sick. 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. Sherrors was killed by a stray bullet while cutting a friends hair on a front porch just 27 days after JeRean died. The house on the other side is in much the same state. Have him call me, and then hung up the phone. He failed to report. [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. The city filled with people from all over the world: Arabs, Appalachians, Poles, African Americans, all in their separate neighborhoods surrounding the factories. 20072023 Blackpast.org. The story smelled to high heaven from the beginning. The fact is a police officer threw the flash grenade through the window of the house that landed on Aiyana's blanket . [CLICK HERE FOR CHARLIE LEDUFFS EXPOSE ON THE DETROIT AMBULANCE SYSTEM. No Glue or Lace Hiring Black Folks. 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. His partner took the rear entrance. 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. The ones pictured here are all found on one block. The radio was tuned to NPR and A Prairie Home Companion came warbling out of my speakers. He has three boys with Aiyanas mother, Dominika Stanley, and three boys with another woman, whom he had left long ago. 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. In October, judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed a charge of involuntary manslaughter, citing a lack of evidence. If someone needs a scapegoat for what's happening here - and what's happening here is justice - then put it on me.". A minute later, a friend took the two dollars as a keepsake. More than 4,000 people attended Officer Huffs funeral at the Greater Grace Temple on the citys Northwest Side. Of course I would. At the center of this economic dynamo was Detroit. Much of the firefighters equipment was substandard: Their boots had holes; they were alerted to fires by fax from the central office. But if it wasnt for them, the city population would have sunk further than it did. Owens, a habitual criminal, was arrested upstairs minutes after Aiyanas shooting and charged for the slaying of JeRean. Its too late.. War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing. One witness had him pegged for 13 years old. JeReans mother drove as he gurgled in the backseat. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. By police incompetence? I am sick as hell. 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. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. AIYANAS FAMILY retained Geoffrey Fieger, the flamboyant, brass-knuckled lawyer who represented Dr. Jack Kevorkiana.k.a. Unclaimed bodies at the Wayne County MorgueTHE RAID ON THE Lillibridge house that took little Aiyanas life came two weeks and at least a dozen homicides after the last time police stormed into a Detroit home. 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. The camera crew was not inside the house when the girl was hit. On Thursday, a settlement was made in the lawsuit that amounted to $8.25 being paid out. JeRean might have thought it was funny to see a grown man driving a moped. Wage growth is slowing. According to reports, seconds after entering the house, Weekley fired the fatal shot. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Its going to stop, he promised. 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. Theyd not been tabulated for four years. "They said he'll be on parole until 2030, and he or his family can't be around my family. I think its one of the lowest things I have ever seen.. The silent suffering.. [12], An A&E reality TV television crew was accompanying the police Special Response Team gathering footage for The First 48. For that he was given simple probation. This could be a precedent setting case if the Court . Sharptons full of shit, said JeReans mother. 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. What does the science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic? McNeal wondered how she was going to pay the $3,000 for her sons funeral. Police officers came from Canada and across Michigan. You might blame the 1967 race riot and the white flight that followed. It also allowed a man to escape the smoldering city. "He has completed various programming and is active in vocational training. We believe some of them were struck by friendly fire, the high-ranking cop told me. Outside, Television was watching them. "[60], In September 2013, J. Cole published a music video dedicated to Jones for his song Crooked Smile, featuring TLC on YouTube. On January 28, 2015, the remaining charge on Weekley, a misdemeanor for careless discharge of a firearm causing death, was dismissed. 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. He also told me that perhaps 50 percent of Detroits drivers were operating without a license or insurance. [34][35], Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. A slender, pimply faced kid, JeRean was not an intimidating figure. Forbidden by restrictive real estate covenants and racist custom, the blacks were mostly restricted to Paradise Valley, which ran the length of Woodward Avenue. DETROITS EAST SIDE is now the poorest, most violent quarter of Americas poorest, most violent big city. Like so many across the country, shes being evicted with no job and no place to go. They turned on the lights and saw that she had been shot.. As a reporter at the Detroit News, I get plenty of phone calls from people in the neighborhoods. I was thinking that, she said with tears. IT MIGHT BE a stretch to see anything more than Detroits problems in Detroits problems. 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. First published on January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM. 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. 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. Somebody should have told company executives back in New York that they had wildly overpaid. 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley Jones died from bullet wound during the raid Police say officer's weapon fired after an encounter with an adult in the house (CNN) -- An attorney representing the. Why would anyone move a gunshot victim, much less toss him in a car? The smell was beastly. I want to get out of here, but I cant, she said. After the grandmother's outburst, the judge ordered the jury out of the room and the grandmother was escorted from the court room screaming. You might say that the homicide of Aiyana is the natural conclusion to the disease from which she suffered, Schmidt told me. A few minutes after that, JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, arrived and got behind the wheel of the car that friends had dragged him into. AIYANA WAS LAID TO REST six days after her killing. 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. The hospital was six miles away. "[42][43] Mertilla Jones was held overnight by Detroit police and then released. ME Schmidt ruled it a homicide; the police decided it was a suicide. Can she be blamed for that? Aiyana was buried in a white casket which was driven to her grave site by a horse-drawn carriage. 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. 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. Lil James brought along a .357 Magnumat the behest of Jones, Detective Williams testified, because Jones was afraid someone would try to steal his diamond Cartier glasses.. 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. It is not protocol. They drove her there every morning, five miles. I get no sleep. They were looking for a murder suspect. And there are. What happened after that is a matter of conjecture, as Detroit officials have had problems getting their stories straight. [2], After the shot was fired, Weekley reported to his sergeant that a woman inside had grabbed for his gun. [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. 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. Im worried they went Hollywood, said a high-ranking Detroit police official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the investigation and simmering resentment in the streets. I think its evil. The judge denied the motion for mistrial, saying she believed the jury could still be "impartial." Fieger alleged a police cover-up. As a reporter, Ive worked from New York to St. Louis to Los Angeles, and Detroit is the only big city I know of that doesnt put out a crime blotter tracking the days mayhem. So bad is it for Detroits children that Education Secretary Arne Duncan said last year, I lose sleep over that one.. As officer Joseph Weekley walks free, another community is demanding answers about the increasing militarisation of law enforcement. Thats good news until you realize that in Detroit, some 500 fires are set every single month. Sheffield came to see Cargill. The day Barrens cleaned out his desk, a burglar cleaned out Barrens house. No weapons were found on ANY person in the house after the raid, including Charles Jones and Aiyana's mother Dominika, Aiyana and her two toddler brothers, Mertilla Jones and her sister, and two adult cousins of Charles. Not to worry: The city had its own welfare system, decades before Lyndon Johnsons Great Society. 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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. Family: 7-year-old shot by police was asleep. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. To me, thats like writing about the surf conditions in the Gaza Strip. Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. Almost half of all adults are illiterate.Duncan may lie awake, but many civic leaders appear to walk around with their eyes sealed shut. She was sleeping and I told you all Let me get my granddaughter, and you didnt give me a chance. Sharptons full of shit, said Cargill, a brassy 39-year-old who works as a stock clerk at Target. Blame the Federal Reserve. A small crowd of agitated black people was gathered on the sidewalk. 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. But it was dark. But our ammos so bad, we cant do ballistics testing. The slap caused the gun to fire with the bullets striking young Aiyana in the head and killing her instantly. Were going to pull people over for traffic violations and were going to take their cars if theyre not legal. Jones wasgiven a "contingency parole" after completing required prison programs, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz said Monday. . There are no fewer than two TV dramas, two documentaries, and three reality programs being filmed here. 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. Jones and two other men known as Lil James and Dirt rode along for JeReans ass-whipping. Look at the Trending Topics on Twitter. She said she made no contact with any officers. Jones broke down during testimony and had to be escorted out amid sobbing after addressing Weekley who was also in the courtroom directly. Behind him stood two rookies. Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she slept on a couch in a Detroit home in 2010. [15], The building was a duplex; Owens's girlfriend LaKrysta Sanders lived in the upstairs apartment, while her mother and Aiyana Jones' grandmother, Mertilla Jones, lived in the downstairs apartment. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. The flower shop is just a pile of bricks now, but despite what the Arab told me, I did not forget what I saw. Three officers shot, standoff follows in Kansas City, Mo., police say, Vanessa Bryant, family settles claims over Kobe crash site photos for $28.5M. [37], Weekley's retrial started in September 2014. 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. Parts of the Detroit River are now clean enough for swimming. February 24, 2023. Dont bother locking it. Her body was transferred to the Wayne County morgue. They killed a child and then they lied about it.. Sharptons people called JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, promising to come over to her house after Aiyanas funeral. 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. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley in court in Detroit, Mich. on June 18, 2013 during his first trial. His weapon fired a single shot, the bullet striking Aiyana in the head and exiting her neck. While other American metropolises have gotten control of their murder rate, Detroits remains where it was during the crack epidemic. [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. Social media and keyword searches can tell much about the popularity and worth of a topic. Thats how its supposed to be done.. Police caught him again in November 2009 in possession of a handgun stolen from an Ohio cop. 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.". No one can answer that fully. 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. Desperation, she said, feels like someones reaching down your throat and ripping out your guts. Weekley, a member of an elite police unit, was the first officer through the door during a chaotic . Listen on Apple Podcasts. The case garnered national headlines for all of the obvious reasons: an innocent child caught in police crosshairs, another black life taken in a city filled with heartache. BlackPast.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and our EIN is 26-1625373. The Rust Belt. As for the struggles of a generation of living people, the murder of a hundred children, they ask me: Whats new in that?. But McNeal messed upshe admits as much. It's hurting me. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. 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. Weekley, 38, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death, a misdemeanor in the death of Aiyana. She denied grabbing the weapon. It was Jameson who finally dragged Huff out of the house and gave him CPR in the driveway, across the street from the Boys & Girls Club. 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. Its some lil niggas at the store talking shitlets go whip they ass, Detective Theopolis Williams later testified that Owens told him during his interrogation. You could blame it on the gas shocks of the 70s that opened the door to foreign car competition. Southeasterns motto is Age Quod Agis: Attend to Your Business. And JeRean did. It feels like there aint no love no more.. On October 10, the second trial ended in another mistrial. ReverendAl Sharpton gave the eulogy. By 1958, 20 percent of the Detroit workforce was jobless. Rayshard Brooks was a 27-year-old African American restaurant worker who lived in Atlanta. Cargill said because of COVID-19 restrictions, she was unable to attend Jones' parole hearings to contest his release. She looked at her barefoot grandson playing in the wreckage of the dwelling next door and wondered if he would make it to manhood. "This was an assassination by video," said Roland Lawrence as he and others watched a small plane . . [42] While Sanders was on the stand, Judge Cynthia Hathaway told her that she (Sanders) was being "disrespectful. It was all for the cameras. Thats when Owens, 34, pulled up on a moped. As Officer Weekley wept on the sidewalk, Aiyana was rushed to the trauma table, where she was pronounced dead. 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