The streetlights still go on and off. Bagpipes played and the rain fell. But the real mystery behind Officer Huffs murder is why Gibson was out on the street in the first place. The smell was beastly. The death of Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones helped increased national awareness of the ongoing issue of unarmed Black Americans being killed by police. It went straight through the childs head. . Not to worry: The city had its own welfare system, decades before Lyndon Johnsons Great Society. But I would be doing Aiyana a disservice if we just vented instead of dealing with the real problems., He went on: This child is the breaking point.. [32][33] Allison Howard was sentenced to two years of probation in July 2013, and fined $2,000. 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. The beavers disappeared from the river around 1930. 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. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Maybe because the cameras were rolling, maybe because a Detroit police officer had been murdered two weeks earlier while trying to apprehend a suspect. People are awake. "My sugar is going up from stress. The house next door to his is rubble smelling of burnt pine, pissed on by the spray cans of the East Warren Crips. Then came the homicide-by-cop of little Aiyana. On his desk is a bronze bust of Geoffrey Fieger. The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. The environment got nothing to do with kids.. Copyright 2023 Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. "[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. Listen on Apple Podcasts. "It's irking me so bad," Cargill said. He might have smirked. People are drinking. AIYANA WAS LAID TO REST six days after her killing. To me, thats like writing about the surf conditions in the Gaza Strip. 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He was charged with involuntary manslaughter and "negligent firing of a weapon causing death". I saw him in the face of my sister, who died a violent death in a filthy section of Detroit a decade ago. Even in Detroit, a predominantly black city. The Detroit Free Press has more details here. A thousand people attended, as did the predictable plump of media. Of course I would. The bullet struck Aiyana killing her. There are two elementary schools in the area, both in desperate need of a lawnmower and a can of paint. Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley Jones (July 20, 2002 - May 16, 2010), was a seven-year-old girl from the East Side of Detroit, Michigan who was shot and killed during a raid conducted by the Detroit Police Department's Special Response Team on May 16, 2010. It was 12:40 am on Sunday, May 16, 2010. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and [6][7][8] 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. The Rust Belt. In this way, what happened to J Cole's daughter? The car made Detroit, and the car unmade Detroit. A small crowd of agitated black people was gathered on the sidewalk. The accident has led to outrage in Detroit, directed at police. 1:46 Detroit After nearly five years, the officer who accidentally killed 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones during a raid being filmed by a TV camera crew has been restored to active duty as a. In August 2014, he was convicted and sentenced to a year in prison on four counts, including false imprisonment and felony cruelty to children. Cargill said because of COVID-19 restrictions, she was unable to attend Jones' parole hearings to contest his release. [CLICK HERE FOR CHARLIE LEDUFFS EXPOSE ON THE DETROIT AMBULANCE SYSTEM. Your donation is fully tax-deductible. At its peak popularity, 810 fires were set in a three-day span. 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. 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. 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. All Rights Reserved. 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. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. Someone radioed in, and more police arrivedbut the official story of what happened that night has changed repeatedly. Why would anyone move a gunshot victim, much less toss him in a car? So what? Fieger barked. Jones was born on July 20, 2002, to Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley in Detroit. The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. Look at the Trending Topics on Twitter. ReverendAl Sharpton gave the eulogy. The killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. But there is no money; the struggling school system has a $363 million deficit. Assistant prosecutor Rob Moran told the judge that the misdemeanor was being dropped in the "best interests of justice." Then Evans own driver shot a man last October. Blame the Federal Reserve. But according to a witness, he said nothing. A half-dozen masked officers of the Special Response TeamDetroits version of SWATwere at the door, guns drawn. For that he was given simple probation. 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. [2], After the shot was fired, Weekley reported to his sergeant that a woman inside had grabbed for his gun. Jarrette Jones and Iyanna McNeely. WAS IT SO SIMPLE? JeReans crime? More than 4,000 people attended Officer Huffs funeral at the Greater Grace Temple on the citys Northwest Side. Three ISO members describe what happened when a neo-Nazi . 91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids Owens didn't like the way the Southeastern High School teen had looked at him, according to court testimony. It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder. 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. The ACLU report found that only 7% of Swat raids were in hostage or active shooter situations situations that justify such extreme responses and 79% were effectuating search warrants, situations that do not call for Swat interventions. That's it. Technicians are currently working on the problem. You might say that the homicide of Aiyana is the natural conclusion to the disease from which she suffered, Schmidt told me. She denied grabbing the weapon. 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'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. Sanders was Aiyana Jones's paternal aunt, the girlfriend of Chauncey Owens, and the daughter of Mertilla Jones. She looked at her barefoot grandson playing in the wreckage of the dwelling next door and wondered if he would make it to manhood. 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. Then she introduced me to her 14-year-old son DeErion, whose remains sat in an urn on the mantel. Evans told me then that major crimes were routinely underreported by 20 percent. Twenty-five-year-old Charles Jones had just gone to bed after covering his 7-year-old daughter Aiyana with her favorite blanket. 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. Jones was born on July 20, 2002, to Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley in Detroit, Michigan. Cargill said her two surviving children, a 30-year-old daughter and son, 22, took the news of Jones' pending release hard. So bad is the rivalry that when the schools face off to play football or basketball, spectators from the visiting team are banned. And Ive got to say in all my years in the department, Ive never used a flash-bang in a case like this.. 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. Dr. Death. In 2019, Jones' family agreed to an $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement against the city of Detroit in connection with the raid. [38] I mean, hiring the Rosa Parks carriage?, I dont owe Sheffield shit, says Jones. I have . European intellectuals wondered at the whirl of building and spending in the new America. Why you looking at me? said Owens, getting off the moped. DETROITS EAST SIDE is now the poorest, most violent quarter of Americas poorest, most violent big city. Outside, Television was watching them. The auto industry allowed for sprawl. IT WAS JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on the morning of May 16 and the neighbors say the streetlights were out on Lillibridge Street. Over the next 50 years, Detroits East Side would become the worlds machine shop, its factory floor. The story rated three paragraphs in the daily papers, and the media never followed up. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Theyd not been tabulated for four years. When I was a teenager, my mother owned a struggling little flower shop on the East Side, not far from where Aiyana was killed. "They said he'll be on parole until 2030, and he or his family can't be around my family. "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. Rayshard Brooks was a 27-year-old African American restaurant worker who lived in Atlanta. Do you got a problem or something? 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. 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. 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.. And America is buying. He admitted in his first trial that, "It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl. 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. held a small rally in memory of Jones. Weekley, who retired from the police department in 2019,claimed Mertilla Jones grabbed his rifle, causing it to discharge. "(Jones') parole guideline score placed him in the high probability of parole range," Gautz said in an email. I think its evil. [39], On October 3, the judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Weekley. / AP. Specifically, since 1997 a 1033 program has enabled the transferring of billions of dollars worth of military equipment from the Department of Defense including mine-resistant protected vehicles originally developed by the South African defence force to thousands of small American communities. Young Municipal Center in Detroit. 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. We believe today's settlement is fair because it balances the needs of Aiyana's family and our responsibility for the city's finances. This has helped reinforce a culture shift within police departments. The Rev. His eyes and mouth were open and held that milky expression of a drunk who has fallen asleep with his eyes open. What the fuck you looking at?. A man called me once to say he had witnessed a murder, but the police refused to take his statement. A spokesman for the A &E program "The First 48" tells ABC News they had a camera crew along with the Detroit police when Aiyanna Jones was shot and killed during the execution of a search warrant to find a man wanted in connection with a murder. What the hell you doing up here for? Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. Parts of the Detroit River are now clean enough for swimming. The whole country knew it, and the whole country laughed. People my mothers age like to tell me about Detroits good old days of soda fountains and shopping markets and lazy Saturday night drives. Home. The city filled with people from all over the world: Arabs, Appalachians, Poles, African Americans, all in their separate neighborhoods surrounding the factories. 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. God, dont take my baby.. All rights reserved. Skyscrapers sprang up virtually overnight. 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. Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy, though his heart did not seem to be in it. Jones and two other men known as Lil James and Dirt rode along for JeReans ass-whipping. A member of JROTC, he was on his way to the military recruitment office after senior prom and commencement. These Wigs Install in Seconds. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? [51] She was buried on the grounds. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. The blood was congealing into a pancake on the dirty linoleum. The Rev. In the witness box in September, Jones said: Im laying there screaming, asking someone to help my granddaughter because he shot her in the head. Sarah Cwiek joined Michigan Radio in October 2009. I can accept the shooting was a mistake, Jones said about his daughters death as a bleary-eyed Stanley sat motionless next to him. The psychopathology of growing up in Detroit, he said. 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. "(Jones is) the one who gave (Owens) the gun to kill their brother. 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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. Jones pleaded guilty tosecond-degree murder and was sentenced to40-60 years, although in 2017 the Michigan Court of Appeals granted him a new trial. In the end, Gibson was charged with Huffs murder and the attempted murders of four more officers. The day I visited, a Hollywood starlet (PDF) was tailing the doctor, studying for her role as the medical examiner in ABCs new Detroit-based murder drama Detroit 1-8-7. The landlord of the duplex, Edward Taylor, let me into the Jones apartment. No one can answer that fully. You dont go into a home around midnight. It would also help inspire the creation of the Black Lives Matter Movementthree years later. Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, 7, died May 16, 2010 after being shot by an officer during a police raid in Detroit. He won't be in the field. 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. The city provided clothing, fuel, rent, and $10 every week to adults for food; children got $5. Mayor Dave Bing spoke. That is, until someone realized that the schools are controlled by rival gangs. Fiegers suburban office is a shrine to Geoffrey Fieger. Dr. Carl Schmidt is the chief medical examiner there. On Thursday, a settlement was made in the lawsuit that amounted to $8.25 being paid out. A wary Detroit police officer keeps watch over an unruly crowd after an arrest on the East Side.The judge, Cynthia Gray Hathaway, set his bond at $20,000only 10 percent of which was due upfrontand adjourned the trial without explanation, according to the docket. Now, Jones family attorney Geoffrey Fieger and the city of Detroit confirm theyve settled the case for $8.25 million. The service was held at Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit, a drab cake-shaped megachurch near the Chrysler Freeway. I forgive him, but I don't forget what he did.". 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 . 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. That night, she was murdered by the very people meant to "protect" and "serve" her. 1894 shipwreck found in Lake Huron, confirming "powerful, tragic story", Garland to face Congress amid ongoing special counsel investigations, FBI chief says agency feels pandemic likely started with Chinese lab leak. Funeral for Chaise Sherrors, JeReans best friend. 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. As for the struggles of a generation of living people, the murder of a hundred children, they ask me: Whats new in that?. But defense attorney Steve Fishman says Jones has no credibility because she's told different stories about what happened. But the fact is Detroit and its suburbs were dying 40 years ago. There was no note. You should go, he said to me, shattering the silence with a wave of his hand. "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. He was formerly a reporter for The Detroit News. But when you call for help, it seems like no ones there. In 2010, a 7-year-old girl, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was slaughtered during a police raid of her home in Detroit. A former risk manager for the district was indicted for siphoning off $3 million for personal use. 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. Thats a hell of a pair of bookends, I offered. When I moved back to Detroit two years ago, I profiled a firehouse on the East Side. His motive, authorities say, was that the teen failed to pay him the proper respect. One witness had him pegged for 13 years old. Aiyana Stanley-Jones, pictured in family photograph. Sharpton left and the Rev. The First 48 photographer Allison Howard was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. That tape never aired, but it was used as evidence in Weekleys two trials for Aiyanas death. 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. Aiyana Jones, Up Closed, https://upclosed.com/people/aiyana-monay-stanley-jones/; Aiyana Jones, Mother Jones, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/09/aiyana-stanley-jones-detroit/; Aiyana Jones, Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/17/aiyana-stanley-jones-joseph-weekley-trial_n_5824684.html; CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aiyana-stanley-jones-case-final-charge-dropped-against-detroit-cop-in-fatal-raid/. That year, the police said there were 306 homicidesuntil I began digging. Police report that they arrested the suspect at the duplex where the . The crime most likely happened at the . Its about state-sanctioned violence., US police departments are increasingly militarised, finds report, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. I am sick. . Defense attorney Steve Fishman said prosecutors were courageous by closing the case. 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. Almost half of all adults are illiterate.Duncan may lie awake, but many civic leaders appear to walk around with their eyes sealed shut. [6][7][8] On October 10, the judge declared a mistrial due to jury deadlock. 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. 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. But the people of Lillibridge Street still look like theyve been picked up by their hair and dropped from the rooftop. No Glue or Lace Hiring Black Folks. Aiyana Jones settlement On April 4, Attorney Geoffrey Fieger announced that the City of Detroit had agreed to an $8.2 million settlement in the 2010 slaughter of Aiyana Jones, 7, by another joint task force incuding Detroit Police Officer Joseph Weekley during a military-style assault on her grandmother Mertilla Jones' home. Neighbor Paul Jameson, a former soldier whose wife had called in the break-in to 911, said the rookies ran toward the house and opened fire after Huff was shot. It's hurting me. There are no fewer than two TV dramas, two documentaries, and three reality programs being filmed here. All Rights Reserved. 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