So what? Fieger barked. 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. [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. 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. JeRean knew badness was on its way and called his mother to come pick him up. 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. His seven-year-old daughter, Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones (PDF), slept on the couch as her grandmother watched television. 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 Michigan, the designation for homicide is actually 750.316 (PDF), but thats just a mouthful of detail. Was Aiyana's legal last name "Jones", "Stanley Jones", or "Stanley-Jones"? May 16, 2010, 7-year-old Aiyana was asleep on her couch, wrapped in her Hannah Montana blanket. Detroit grew restless. What? he croaked. / AP. The city filled with people from all over the world: Arabs, Appalachians, Poles, African Americans, all in their separate neighborhoods surrounding the factories. Whenever I see a person who died of violence or misadventure, I think about the dead man with the open eyes on the dirty floor of the liquor store. Other auto plants sprang up on the East Side: Packard, Studebaker, Chryslers Dodge Main. The service was held at Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit, a drab cake-shaped megachurch near the Chrysler Freeway. [41][44][45][46] Because of Mertilla Jones's outburst, the judge stopped the trial until September 29. ReverendAl Sharpton gave the eulogy. The lawsuit charges Rowe[who?] She denied grabbing the weapon. Instead of being protected, communities are treated like the enemy, the report found with a disproportionate effect on communities of color. 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. WAS IT SO SIMPLE? Jones was born on July 20, 2002, to Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley in Detroit, Michigan. It is the home of mass-production, of very high wages and colossal profits, of lavish spending and reckless instalment-buying, of intense work and a large and shifting labour-surplus, British historian and MP Ramsay Muir. In Detroit, a new car costs more than the average house. Forget what you saw, little man. The Detroit City Council needs to approve the settlement. 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. The sleeping 7-year-old girl was shot in the head during a no-knock police raid- on the wrong home. 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. Weekley, a member of an elite police unit, was the first officer through the door during a chaotic . [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. I am sick as hell. Jones was born on July 20, 2002, to Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley in Detroit. The crumbling houses still crumble. . The story rated three paragraphs in the daily papers, and the media never followed up. And there are. [6][7][8] 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? "[42][43] The official went on to say that the SWAT team was not briefed about the presence of children in the house, although the neighborhood informant who led homicide detectives to the Lillibridge address told them that children lived there. The family of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was murdered by Detroit police more than two years ago, is still waiting for justice. 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. Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she slept on a couch in a Detroit home in 2010. Ive seen him in the faces of soldiers when I was covering the Iraq War. The illiteracy, child poverty, and unemployment rates hover around 50 percent. Bagpipes played and the rain fell. She arrived too late. Aiyana was buried in a white casket which was driven to her grave site by a horse-drawn carriage. The sad and confusing circumstances of the murders of JeRean Blake and Officer Huff, both black, robbed Sharpton of some of his customary indignation. IT MIGHT BE a stretch to see anything more than Detroits problems in Detroits problems. Weekley, 38, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death, a misdemeanor in the death of Aiyana. More than 4,000 people attended Officer Huffs funeral at the Greater Grace Temple on the citys Northwest Side. Then there is the thought that Detroit is simply a boomtown that went bust the minute Henry Ford began to build it. 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. held a small rally in memory of Jones. Thats a hell of a pair of bookends, I offered. As for the struggles of a generation of living people, the murder of a hundred children, they ask me: Whats new in that?. 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?. Funeral for Chaise Sherrors, JeReans best friend. 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. 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. [34][35], Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. 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. First published on January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM. What occurred next has been disputed by police officers, bystanders, and neighboring residents. Moreover, the Detroit public school system is the worst performer in the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests, with nearly 80 percent of eighth-graders unable to do basic math. Judge Hathaway emphasized that two juries, in 2013 and 2014, couldn't reach a unanimous verdict. Was Detroit an outlier or an epicenter? As officer Joseph Weekley walks free, another community is demanding answers about the increasing militarisation of law enforcement. On his desk is a bronze bust of Geoffrey Fieger. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. As Detroit led the nation in median income and homeownership, automation and foreign competition were forcing companies like Packard to shutter their doors. Then they said he jumped out a back window. January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM 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. 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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. In a photograph from May 2010, Dominika Stanley and Charles Jones hold a picture of their daughter, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in a Detroit courtroom. The flower shop is just a pile of bricks now, but despite what the Arab told me, I did not forget what I saw. JEREAN BLAKE NOBLES was one of the rare black males in Detroit who made it (PDF) through high school. Evans driver dropped him with a single shot. By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. As for the videotape of the killing, Geoffrey Fieger said he did not have it. I also found that the police and judicial systems were so broken that in more than 70 percent of murders, the killer got away with it. 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. His mothers house on Lillibridge, he said, was just supposed to be a way station to better things. They had time, a Detroit police detective told me. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley stands in judge Cynthia Hathaways courtroom in Detroit, in June 2013. [5] Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway presided over the case. 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. Why you do this to me? People are awake. She said she made no contact with any officers. You dont go into a home around midnight. She had already cleared a space on the other end of the mantel for Chaises urn. She waited, but Sharpton never came. This is not about policing, he said. If he didn't give him the gun, they feel like their brother would still be alive, and Aiyana would still be alive.". Even Time bought a house on the East Side last year for $99,000. Aiyana Jones was killed nine years ago during a police raid gone wrong and no convictions were made. Uncategorized. No one can answer that fully. 3) Weekley's claims that Mertilla Jones grabbed . Officer Joseph Weekley, the lead commandowhod been featured before on another A&E show, Detroit SWATburst into the house. The family of a 7-year-old who was fatally shot during a botched raid in 2010 is suing Detroit police, alleging officers lied about how she was killed as part of a cover-up. 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. He has three boys with Aiyanas mother, Dominika Stanley, and three boys with another woman, whom he had left long ago. In October 2011, he was charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. Me? 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 . War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing. His partner took the rear entrance. Were going to pull people over for traffic violations and were going to take their cars if theyre not legal. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. January 7, 2022 . It is the home of mass-production, of very high wages and colossal profits, of lavish spending and reckless instalment-buying, of intense work and a large and shifting labour-surplus, British historian and MP Ramsay Muir wrote in 1927. Another cruiser with two officers responded as well. The Kilpatrick scandal, combined with the murder rate, spurred the newly elected mayor, Dave Bingan NBA Hall of Famerto fire Police Chief James Barrens last year and replace him with Warren Evans, the Wayne County sheriff. Two years later he was sentenced to an additional 12 months for violating . By 1958, 20 percent of the Detroit workforce was jobless. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. JeReans crime? A minute later, a friend took the two dollars as a keepsake. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter and "negligent firing of a weapon causing death". There were even toys on the lawn. He looked at Chauncey Owens the wrong way, detectives say. Your donation is fully tax-deductible. Owens sped two blocks back to Lillibridge and gathered up a posse, according to his statement to the police. They still owe me rent, he said with a face about the Joneses. But when you call for help, it seems like no ones there. 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. Folks want to blame Aiyana's "crime ridden" neighborhood for her death. [48] On January 28, 2015, county prosecutor Kym Worthy dismissed the last remaining charge against Weekley, the misdemeanor of 'careless discharge of a firearm causing death'. It feels like there aint no love no more.. I saw him in the face of my sister, who died a violent death in a filthy section of Detroit a decade ago. 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. Once at Aiyanas graveside, Charles Jones released a dove. The family of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Detroit police officers, following a raid that led to the death of the child. The car made Detroit, and the car unmade Detroit. In Detroit, the official response time of an ambulance to a 911 call is 12 minutes. If such a thing could be true, Chaises neighborhood is worse than JeReans. What the fuck do you think? he said. Over the next 50 years, Detroits East Side would become the worlds machine shop, its factory floor. The store bell jingled its little requiem as I pulled the door open. Twenty-five-year-old Charles Jones had just gone to bed after covering his 7-year-old daughter Aiyana with her favorite blanket. But I cant accept it because they lied about it. "[27] His trial was scheduled for October[28] and finally took place in June 2013 but resulted in a deadlocked jury. My daughter got love, honor, and respect. He admitted in his first trial that, "It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl. 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. [6][7][8] On October 10, the judge declared a mistrial due to jury deadlock. They were wondering if the Rust Belt cancer had metastasized and was creeping to Los Angeles and London and Barcelona. She was only a baby, man. It fired. The water in the Detroit River was so bad, it was said you could bottle it and sell it as poison. That is, until someone realized that the schools are controlled by rival gangs. 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. 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. [32][33] Allison Howard was sentenced to two years of probation in July 2013, and fined $2,000. Much of the firefighters equipment was substandard: Their boots had holes; they were alerted to fires by fax from the central office. Weekleys trial began in June 2013 and ended in a mistrial when a jury failed to reach a verdict. You could blame it on the gas shocks of the 70s that opened the door to foreign car competition. The civil rights lawsuit was filed in federal court Wednesday by attorney Geoffrey Fieger over the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones. The department was also cited for excessive force after people died in lockup and at the hands of rogue cops. 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. One witness had him pegged for 13 years old. Evans drivera copgave chase. He said. Sherrors mom, in white, lost another son to a bullet the previous year. He also told me that perhaps 50 percent of Detroits drivers were operating without a license or insurance. Aiyana was severely burned and then shot in the head and neck by an unidentified police officer standing on the porch. It's now Monday at 10:30pm. I mean, hiring the Rosa Parks carriage?, I dont owe Sheffield shit, says Jones. A small donation would help us keep this available to all. 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. Radley Balko | 5.24.2010 3:00 PM. Then JeRean was murdered. [2], After the shot was fired, Weekley reported to his sergeant that a woman inside had grabbed for his gun. 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. You might blame postwar industrial policies that sent the factories to the suburbs, the rural South, and the western deserts. 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. So bad is it for Detroits children that Education Secretary Arne Duncan said last year, I lose sleep over that one.. 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