Predictably, Gibson did not show for his new court date. Me? What the fuck do you think? he said. One ran off. 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. [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. Gibson bonded out last January and actually showed up for his trial in circuit court on February 17. The store bell jingled its little requiem as I pulled the door open. Juries twice failed to reach a verdict in Weekleys case, first in June 2013 and then in October 2014. You might blame Coleman Youngthe citys first black mayorand his culture of cronyism. But Geoffrey Fieger calls it police arrogance. You might say that the homicide of Aiyana is the natural conclusion to the disease from which she suffered, Schmidt told me. We believe today's settlement is fair because it balances the needs of Aiyana's family and our responsibility for the city's finances. 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. It's us but for your ears. There are some 10,000 unsolved homicides dating back to 1960. 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. At its peak popularity, 810 fires were set in a three-day span. He was formerly a reporter for The Detroit News. The civil rights lawsuit was filed in federal court Wednesday by attorney Geoffrey Fieger over the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones. The judge said she's willing to be the "scapegoat" if critics don't like the result. 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. The First 48 photographer Allison Howard was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. No one can answer that fully. War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing. Weekley insisted he accidentally pulled the trigger during a struggle with Aiyana's grandmother. She got pregnant at 15. In an attempt to distract the occupants, police fired a flash grenade through the front window of the lower apartment, where Aiyana Jones was sleeping. Stanley suddenly emerged from her stupor: Whats that got to do with it? she hissed. Go ahead, walk in the Detroit River and disappear. But I cant. He got paid exactly what he was supposed to be paid.. Plus, grenades are rarely used when rounding up suspects, even murder suspects. They drove her there every morning, five miles. The little girl in the video was based on a true story, according to MTV.com. Jones wasgiven a "contingency parole" after completing required prison programs, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz said Monday. [6][7][8] On October 10, the judge declared a mistrial due to jury deadlock. Do you find this information helpful? He was charged twice with involuntary manslaughter, but both cases ended in mistrials. Judge Hathaway emphasized that two juries, in 2013 and 2014, couldn't reach a unanimous verdict. I think its one of the lowest things I have ever seen.. Scott said a civil suit had been filed and an appeal made to US attorney general Eric Holder to pursue a case for the violation of Aiyanas civil rights. People call it police brutality. Thirty-four hours earlier, JeRean Blake Nobles, 17, had been shot outside a liquor store on nearby Mack Avenue; an informant had IDd a man named Chauncey Owens as the shooter and provided this address. Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones for just $14.95. Soon, the Motor Citys population surpassed that of Boston and Baltimore, old East Coast port cities founded on maritime shipping when the world moved by boat. 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 Jones was a seven year old girl living in Detroit, who was killed by the police while sleeping in her own home. Someone radioed in, and more police arrivedbut the official story of what happened that night has changed repeatedly. Many are as fucked up and sad as Aiyanas. Folks want to blame Aiyana's "crime ridden" neighborhood for her death. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. Aiyana was severely burned and then shot in the head and neck by an unidentified police officer standing on the porch. Social media and keyword searches can tell much about the popularity and worth of a topic. He was shot in the head and killed last year. 3) Weekley's claims that Mertilla Jones grabbed . [39], On October 3, the judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Weekley. . Mayor Dave Bing spoke. 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. And he wouldnt even help her. That year, the police said there were 306 homicidesuntil I began digging. held a small rally in memory of Jones. Murder suspect Chauncey Louis Owens, the target of the raid, will be charged. It is not protocol. The conceit of the show is that homicide detectives have 48 hours to crack a murder case before the trail goes cold. 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 2007, he attacked a cop and tried to take his gun. Other auto plants sprang up on the East Side: Packard, Studebaker, Chryslers Dodge Main. Do a Google search for "Aiyana Jones" and you get just 42,200 results. [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. A total, unfortunate fuck-up.. I began to get calls from reporters around the world wondering what Detroit was like, what was happening here. "My sugar is going up from stress. Her parents say they hope Aiyana will be remembered as more than a symbol of heightened tension in a city in crisis. They made it to the trauma ward, where JeRean was pronounced dead. 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. The Jones family contends that the shot that killed Aiyana was fired from outside the house, and that the police eventually caught the homicide suspect, Chauncey L. Owens, at a different address . And America is buying. So what? Fieger barked. [12], According to press reports, police were on the scene by 12:40a.m. on Sunday, May 16, 2010. 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. This is not about policing, he said. Responding to a breaking-and-entering and shots-fired call at 3:30 a.m., Officer Brian Huff, a 12-year veteran, walked into that dark house. She arrived too late. Mertilla Jones, 46, and her grandaughter, Aiyana Jones, 7, were asleep on a couch in their lower flat's front room at about 12:30 a.m. when police tossed an incendiary stun grenade through the window directly above the couch. A small donation would help us keep this available to all. Weekley stated, "A woman inside grabbed my gun. His mothers house on Lillibridge, he said, was just supposed to be a way station to better things. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? Copyright 2023 Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. As a reporter at the Detroit News, I get plenty of phone calls from people in the neighborhoods. The man stopped, turned, and pulled a gun. A bunch of lazy, uneducated blue-collar incompetents. The crumbling houses still crumble. The mortician charged $700 for the most basic viewing casket, even though the body was to be cremated. She arrived too late. Family: 7-year-old shot by police was asleep. Barry, who said he had been gassed and maced and had guns pointed at him while attending demonstrations, including in Ferguson, Missouri, said the militarization of police was part of a long history and heritage of crackdown on communities of color in America, including the post-9/11 crackdown on Muslim and Arab communities. But there is no money; the struggling school system has a $363 million deficit. 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 judge denied the motion for mistrial, saying she believed the jury could still be "impartial." The title is derived from the California penal code for murder: 187. But is she responsible for police officers with broken computers in their squad cars, firefighters with holes in their boots, ambulances that arrive late, a city that cant keep its lights on and leaves its vacant buildings to the arsonists match, a state government that allows corpses to stack up in the morgue, multinational corporations that move away and leave poisoned fields behind, judges who let violent criminals walk the streets, school stewards who steal the childrens milk money, elected officials who loot the city, automobile executives who couldnt manage a grocery store, or Wall Street grifters who destroyed the economy and left the nations children with a burden of debt? It's hurting me. Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, 7, died May 16, 2010 after being shot by an officer during a police raid in Detroit. 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. WAS IT SO SIMPLE? 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. "It's irking me so bad," Cargill said. "We had to do it by paperwork, and they read the letters from my side of the family (during the parole hearing)," Cargill said. Its going to stop, he promised. During the second trial, Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed the most serious charge, involuntary manslaughter, saying there was insufficient evidence. He, too, was about to graduate from Southeastern High. It would be easy to lay the blame on McNeal for the circumstances in which she raised her sons. The SWAT team tried the steel door to the building. 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. "[60], In September 2013, J. Cole published a music video dedicated to Jones for his song Crooked Smile, featuring TLC on YouTube. 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. A thousand people attended, as did the predictable plump of media. The police were . It went straight through the childs head. Your donation is fully tax-deductible. Aiyanas death garnered national attention, including sharp criticism from the Revs. It was 12:40 am on Sunday, May 16, 2010. The police were searching for a murder suspect thought to be in the Jones home. Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway address the court on Friday. He failed to report. In the end, Gibson was charged with Huffs murder and the attempted murders of four more officers. Coco Jones has lived many lives. A slender, pimply faced kid, JeRean was not an intimidating figure. If someone needs a scapegoat for what's happening here - and what's happening here is justice - then put it on me.". In August 2014, he was convicted and sentenced to a year in prison on four counts, including false imprisonment and felony cruelty to children. Completed in 1917, the school, attended by white students at the time, was considered so far out in the wilds that its athletic teams took the nickname Jungaleers.. Known as Half-Day Hathaway, the judge was removed from the bench for six months by the Michigan Supreme Court a decade ago for, among other things, adjourning trials to sneak away on vacation. Defense attorney Steve Fishman said prosecutors were courageous by closing the case. 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. Im alive. By police incompetence? 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. On a hot afternoon around one Mothers Day, I was working in the back greenhouse. We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. Thats good news until you realize that in Detroit, some 500 fires are set every single month. Clutching his juice in one hand and two dollars in the other, JeRean staggered across Mack Avenue and collapsed in the street. 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 now that the papers do cover Detroit, boosters complain about a lack of balance. The day after Huff was killed, and under fire from the police for her leniency toward Gibson, Judge Hathaway went into the case file and made changes, according to notations made in the courts computerized docket system. Theyd not been tabulated for four years. Would you take a job at that Chrysler plant if there were any jobs there? I asked one of the men, who was sweating under the weight of the cast iron. Chaises mother, Britta McNeal, 39, sat on the porch staring blankly into the distance, smoking no-brand cigarettes. But even he couldnt stanch the tsunami of red ink; the deficit ballooned more than $140 million under his guidance. Dr. Death. The walls are covered with photographs of Geoffrey Fieger. The auto industry allowed for sprawl. [19], Police officers, bystanders, and residents of the home disagreed about the events that followed. Cargill said because of COVID-19 restrictions, she was unable to attend Jones' parole hearings to contest his release. Even on Lillibridge Street, the outrage has died down. ReverendAl Sharpton gave the eulogy. The appellatecourt ruledthe presiding judge in Jones'case hadn'tadequately answered jurors' questionsduring deliberations. I would have waited until the morning when the guy went to the liquor store to buy a quart of milk. For that he was given simple probation. "They said he'll be on parole until 2030, and he or his family can't be around my family. (Theyd jerry-rigged a contraption where the fax pushes a door hinge, which falls on a screw wired to an actual alarm.) As it turns out, he was filming a pilot for his own reality show, entitled The Chief. The silent suffering.. More than 4,000 people attended Officer Huffs funeral at the Greater Grace Temple on the citys Northwest Side. 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 . On October 4, 2011, a Wayne County grand jury indicted Officer Joseph Weekley for involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. Then came the homicide-by-cop of little Aiyana. 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. 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. The posse allegedly included Aiyanas father, Charles C.J. Jones. Then there is the thought that Detroit is simply a boomtown that went bust the minute Henry Ford began to build it. Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she slept on a couch in a Detroit home in 2010. It also allowed a man to escape the smoldering city. Until there wasnt. Jones was born on July 20, 2002, to Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley in Detroit. January 7, 2022 . Inexpensive, too! In Los Angeles, by comparison, the unsolved-murder rate is 22 percent. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Mertilla Jones was held overnight by Detroit police and then released. The Detroit Police Department was in search of a murderer, and mistakenly raided Aiyana's home. Weekley left the courtroom through a private door. Then JeRean was murdered. 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. [31] In June 2013, Howard pleaded "no contest" to the obstruction of justice charge, and the perjury charge was dismissed. Do you got a problem or something? The suspect fingered for Blakes murder, Chauncey Owens, lived in the upstairs flat, with Charles Jones sister. It was unlocked. 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. 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. AP Photo Charles Jones, the father of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was killed early Sunday in Detroit, holds a photo of Aiyana in attorney Geoffrey Fieger's office in Southfield, Mich., Tuesday . 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. So bad is the rivalry that when the schools face off to play football or basketball, spectators from the visiting team are banned. Inexplicably, its carcass still stands and burns incessantly. Owens didn't like the way the Southeastern High School teen had looked at him, according to court testimony. "He has completed various programming and is active in vocational training. BlackPast.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and our EIN is 26-1625373. We believe some of them were struck by friendly fire, the high-ranking cop told me. But the real mystery behind Officer Huffs murder is why Gibson was out on the street in the first place. As our Detroit reporter, she is helping us expand our coverage of the economy, politics, and culture in and around the city of Detroit. The sad and confusing circumstances of the murders of JeRean Blake and Officer Huff, both black, robbed Sharpton of some of his customary indignation. Owens sped two blocks back to Lillibridge and gathered up a posse, according to his statement to the police. [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. They were looking for a murder suspect. Later that day, Detroit Police identified Chauncey Owens as a suspect in the shooting and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Cargill said her two surviving children, a 30-year-old daughter and son, 22, took the news of Jones' pending release hard. I got something for you.. The family of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was murdered by Detroit police more than two years ago, is still waiting for justice. It regards itself as the temple of a new gospel of progress, to which I shall venture to give the name of Detroitism.. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. I think its abominable. The city reached a peak population of 1.9 million people in the 1950s, and it was 83 percent white. . A former risk manager for the district was indicted for siphoning off $3 million for personal use. [12], An A&E reality TV television crew was accompanying the police Special Response Team gathering footage for The First 48. Was it death by TV? Jones new family had been on the drift for the past few years as he tried to pull it together. I have . I stared through the windshield at the little boy in the diaper playing amid the ruins, reached over, and switched it off. Owens, a habitual criminal, was arrested upstairs minutes after Aiyanas shooting and charged for the slaying of JeRean. 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. 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. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. AIYANAS FAMILY retained Geoffrey Fieger, the flamboyant, brass-knuckled lawyer who represented Dr. Jack Kevorkiana.k.a. I saw him in the face of my sister, who died a violent death in a filthy section of Detroit a decade ago. 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 . 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. On the morning of May 16, a Detroit police officer fatally shot 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones in the throat during a police raid on her home. Its police disinformation.. His partner took the rear entrance. By parental neglect? The prisoner has not incurred any serious misconducts while in prison. But the SWAT team didnt wait. The illiteracy, child poverty, and unemployment rates hover around 50 percent. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter and "negligent firing of a weapon causing death". Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley stands in judge Cynthia Hathaways courtroom in Detroit, in June 2013. The house on the other side is in much the same state. She denied grabbing the weapon. It just goes on, she said. They want to blame her parents and her aunt who is engaged to the murder suspect. Bobb did uncover graft and fraud and waste, however. 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. I am sick as hell. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket. The case had been set to go to trial next week. [50][bettersourceneeded] The casket was white and was afterwards driven to the grave by horse-drawn carriage. Jones broke down during testimony and had to be escorted out amid sobbing after addressing Weekley who was also in the courtroom directly. 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). 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. Was Detroit an outlier or an epicenter? . The psychopathology of growing up in Detroit, he said. Were taking whats left.. [4], Officer Joseph Weekley was charged in connection with Jones' killing. Can she be blamed for that? That is, until someone realized that the schools are controlled by rival gangs. 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. [6][7][8] A good kid with average grades, JeRean went to Southeastern High, which is situated in an industrial belt of moldering Chrysler assembly plants. DETROITS EAST SIDE is now the poorest, most violent quarter of Americas poorest, most violent big city. 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. The family is seeking $7.5 million in damages and a jury trial conceded by the court filing. 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