On January 28, 2015, a prosecutor cleared Weekley of the last remaining charge against him, ensuring there would not be a third trial. Detroit demolishes only 500 homes a year, thanks to concerns over lawsuits and environmental hazards, as well as lack of funds and ineptitude. 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. Today, reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget, allows us to dig deep on stories that matter, and lets us keep our reporting free for everyone. DETROIT - At the prosecutor's request, a judge on Friday dismissed the last charge against a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a 7-year-old girl during a raid. Skyscrapers sprang up virtually overnight. An investigation was promised. [12] At the time of the incident Aiyana Jones was asleep on the couch in front room of the downstairs apartment. Danny Wilcox Frazier is a contributing photographer for Mother Jones. What I find ironic is a friend of the punks released his video t. According to reports, seconds after entering the house, Weekley fired the fatal shot. 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. Weekley claimed his gun accidentally went off as he struggled with the girls grandmother, Mertilla Jones. ME Schmidt ruled it a homicide; the police decided it was a suicide. [9][10] [50][bettersourceneeded] The casket was white and was afterwards driven to the grave by horse-drawn carriage. "[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. What did? In the end, Gibson was charged with Huffs murder and the attempted murders of four more officers. Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights. The psychopathology of growing up in Detroit, he said. [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'. Evans was fired. Thats five times as many as New York, in a city one-tenth the size. Gibson is a tall, thick-necked man who, like the character Omar from The Wire, made his living robbing dope houses. The Detroit Free Press has more details here. And during our conversation, he referred to himself in the third personGeoffrey Fieger. The slap caused the gun to fire with the bullets striking young Aiyana in the head and killing her instantly. The appellatecourt ruledthe presiding judge in Jones'case hadn'tadequately answered jurors' questionsduring deliberations. 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. It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder. 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. Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.. Judge Hathaway emphasized that two juries, in 2013 and 2014, couldn't reach a unanimous verdict. Grover 08:10, 10 June 2014 (UTC) Reply . People involved. Weekley, who retired from the police department in 2019,claimed Mertilla Jones grabbed his rifle, causing it to discharge. 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 MIGHT BE a stretch to see anything more than Detroits problems in Detroits problems. I went to see Fieger to ask him to show me the tape. The case had been set to go to trial next week. One witness had him pegged for 13 years old. 2) NO WEAPONS OF ANY KIND WERE FOUND IN OR OUTSIDE THE HOME OF MERTILLA JONES after the police Special Response Team raid. He has three boys with Aiyanas mother, Dominika Stanley, and three boys with another woman, whom he had left long ago. Two days later, on May 16, police arrived at the house where Aiyana Jones lived, hoping to find Owens. Outside, three men were loading the boiler, tubs, and sinks into a trailer to take to the scrap yard. "(Jones is) the one who gave (Owens) the gun to kill their brother. The city reached a peak population of 1.9 million people in the 1950s, and it was 83 percent white. 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.. That's it. They made it to the trauma ward, where JeRean was pronounced dead. 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. His work has appeared in Time, Life, and Newsweek. For that he was given simple probation. Which is what he was doing at this house, authorities contend, when he put three bullets in Officer Huffs face. 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. In tow was an A&E crew filming an episode of The First 48, its true-crime program. Why you looking at me? said Owens, getting off the moped. Lord Jesus, I ain't never seen nothing like that in my life."--Mertilla Jones, Aiyana's grandmother. The illiteracy, child poverty, and unemployment rates hover around 50 percent. 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. Outside court, a spokesman for Aiyana's family criticized the judge for her comments. Two years later he was sentenced to an additional 12 months for violating . 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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. What the fuck you looking at?. Predictably, Gibson did not show for his new court date. Can she be blamed for that? Three ISO members describe what happened when a neo-Nazi . After the grandmother's outburst, the judge ordered the jury out of the room and the grandmother was escorted from the court room screaming. Not to worry: The city had its own welfare system, decades before Lyndon Johnsons Great Society. She arrived too late. Instead of being protected, communities are treated like the enemy, the report found with a disproportionate effect on communities of color. It was 12:40 am on Sunday, May 16, 2010. The kids are dropping like flies and hes got nothing but useless words., CHECK OUT A SLIDESHOW OF ABANDONED HOUSES ON ONE BLOCK IN DETROIT, join us with a tax-deductible donation today. You can blame it on the John Deere mechanical cotton-picker of 1950, which uprooted the sharecropper and sent him north looking for a livingwhere he found he was locked out of the factories by the unions. [52], A civil rights lawsuit questioned Weekley's account of the incident, claiming the grenade had gone through the window and struck Aiyana. People call it police brutality. Family: 7-year-old shot by police was asleep. 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. The mayors office is said to have a copy, as well as the Michigan State Police, who are now handling the investigation. But defense attorney Steve Fishman says Jones has no credibility because she's told different stories about what happened. More than 4,000 people attended Officer Huffs funeral at the Greater Grace Temple on the citys Northwest Side. Coco Jones has lived many lives. European intellectuals wondered at the whirl of building and spending in the new America. [36] Aiyana's case would be the longest presiding case that Hathaway had in more than 20 years of being on the bench. Terms of Service apply. They still owe me rent, he said with a face about the Joneses. [25], Chauncey Owens, the suspect who the raid was intended to apprehend and boyfriend of Aiyana's aunt LaKrystal Sanders,[26] was found in the upper-floor apartment of the duplex and surrendered without incident. DETROITS EAST SIDE is now the poorest, most violent quarter of Americas poorest, most violent big city. AS SUMMER DRAGGED on, the story of Aiyana faded from even the regional press. If you value what you get from Mother Jones, please join us with a tax-deductible donation today so we can keep on doing the type of journalism 2023 demands. 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. People are drinking. Me? It regards itself as the temple of a new gospel of progress, to which I shall venture to give the name of Detroitism.. The bullet hit a child. held a small rally in memory of Jones. The title is derived from the California penal code for murder: 187. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. The flashbacks. Outside, Television was watching them. The service was held at Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit, a drab cake-shaped megachurch near the Chrysler Freeway. But I cant accept it because they lied about it. 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. There are lawyers and doctors and auto executives with nice homes and good jobs, community elders trying to make things better, teachers who spend their own money on classroom supplies, people who mow lawns out of respect for the dead, parents who raise their children, ministers who help with funeral expenses. Your donation is fully tax-deductible. . I would have waited until the morning when the guy went to the liquor store to buy a quart of milk. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? I dont want no apology from no police. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and No Glue or Lace Hiring Black Folks. These Wigs Install in Seconds. But McNeal messed upshe admits as much. He didn't elaborate. She refused to let me see the original paper file, despite the fact that it is a public record, and has said that she cant comment on the case because she might preside in the trial against Gibson. Its about state-sanctioned violence., US police departments are increasingly militarised, finds report, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Aiyana's mother Dominika Stanley, and paternal grandmother Mertilla testified, and both had "emotional outbursts." Then came the homicide-by-cop of little Aiyana. In Detroit, only 1 in 3 kids will graduate from high school. Besides, there was always a job in America when you needed one. First published on January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM. February 24, 2023. A dollhouse sits in an empty lot not far from where Aiyana was shot by the police officers storming her home.It was a total fuck-up, the official said. But it was dark. Tens of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands. [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. At the time Owens was the boyfriend of Joness aunt LaKrystal Sanders, who was also living at the house. His retrial began in September 2014. Wage growth is slowing. First, it was six cops who responded to the 911 call. In Detroit, a new car costs more than the average house. 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. Killing of Aiyana Jones. 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. Thats how its supposed to be done.. Not even you.. 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. Thats when Owens, 34, pulled up on a moped. 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/. The Detroit City Council needs to approve the settlement. They drove her there every morning, five miles. 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. Behind him stood two rookies. I am sick as hell. The jury stall resulted in seven voting "not guilty" and five voting "guilty". Jones wasgiven a "contingency parole" after completing required prison programs, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz said Monday. After the finale aired, we didn't know whether they're still together or not until the reunion on March 4, but a little social media sleuthing told us they were still . In the case of the night Aiyana was killed, many feel the situation did not call for a military-style bust at midnight. Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she slept on a couch in a Detroit home in 2010. 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. Outside, a reality television crew filmed the events for A&E. 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. Officials said Gibson ran out the front of the house. And now that the papers do cover Detroit, boosters complain about a lack of balance. The streetlights still go on and off. [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. [6][7][8] 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. In 2007, he attacked a cop and tried to take his gun. The day Barrens cleaned out his desk, a burglar cleaned out Barrens house. Defense attorney Steve Fishman said prosecutors were courageous by closing the case. Lyvonne Cargill wears a shirt that honors her son, JeRean Blake Nobles. The programs six-minute sizzle reel begins with Evans dressed in full battle gear in front of the shattered Michigan Central Rail Depot, cradling a semiautomatic rifle and declaring that he would do whatever it takes to take back the streets of Detroit. [20] He pushed his way inside, protected by a ballistic shield. 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. Now, Jones family attorney Geoffrey Fieger and the city of Detroit confirm theyve settled the case for $8.25 million. 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. . So Dr. Schmidt keeps them on layaway, zipped up in body bags as family members wait for a ship to come in that never seems to arrive. The car made Detroit, and the car unmade Detroit. 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. 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. A fresh trial was scheduled for December 2013,[29] but actually began in September 2014. Have him call me, and then hung up the phone. And Ive got to say in all my years in the department, Ive never used a flash-bang in a case like this.. Was it death by TV? 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. Its easy in our anger, our rage, to just vent and scream. Weekley, a member of an elite police unit, was the first officer through the door during a chaotic . Somebody should have told company executives back in New York that they had wildly overpaid. The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. [31] In June 2013, Howard pleaded "no contest" to the obstruction of justice charge, and the perjury charge was dismissed. WRSX 91.3 Port Huron is off the air due to network issues. 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. Murder suspect Chauncey Louis Owens, the target of the raid, will be charged. Jones broke down during testimony and had to be escorted out amid sobbing after addressing Weekley who was also in the courtroom directly. "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. By parental neglect? He became a horrifying statisticone of 103 kids and teens murdered between January 2009 and July 2010. I can accept the shooting was a mistake, Jones said about his daughters death as a bleary-eyed Stanley sat motionless next to him. In 2019, Jones' family agreed to an $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement against the city of Detroit in connection with the raid. Detroit VA hospital harmed patients, altered records, investigation reveals, $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. A half-dozen masked officers of. 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