Another cruiser with two officers responded as well. The Detroit chapter of the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) and Black Lives Matter Detroit organized the rally on what would have been her 14th birthday. According to reports, seconds after entering the house, Weekley fired the fatal shot. The civil rights lawsuit was filed in federal court Wednesday by attorney Geoffrey Fieger over the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones. 91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids ], My baby, my baby, my baby. Jones broke down during testimony and had to be escorted out amid sobbing after addressing Weekley who was also in the courtroom directly. About 40 kids were milling around in front of the soft-serve window. Weekley stated, "A woman inside grabbed my gun. School wasnt a priority. On Thursday, a settlement was made in the lawsuit that amounted to $8.25 being paid out. His seven-year-old daughter, Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones (PDF), slept on the couch as her grandmother watched television. The police were . 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. Evans told me then that major crimes were routinely underreported by 20 percent. The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. Then she introduced me to her 14-year-old son DeErion, whose remains sat in an urn on the mantel. The case had been set to go to trial next week. Two days later, on May 16, police arrived at the house where Aiyana Jones lived, hoping to find Owens. 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. Thats how its supposed to be done.. But he doesnt return my calls. He was shot in the head and killed last year. And America is buying. Sharpton left and the Rev. On January 28, 2015, a prosecutor cleared Weekley of the last remaining charge against him, ensuring there would not be a third trial. The story smelled to high heaven from the beginning. 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. . On May 14, 2010, JeRean Blake, a senior at Southeastern High School of Technology and Law was shot and killed near an intersection on Detroits east side. 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. JeRean might have thought it was funny to see a grown man driving a moped. The Detroit City Council needs to approve the settlement. McNeal wondered how she was going to pay the $3,000 for her sons funeral. The water in the Detroit River was so bad, it was said you could bottle it and sell it as poison. The car made Detroit, and the car unmade Detroit. But when you call for help, it seems like no ones there. On May 16, 2010, 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones was shot and killed in her sleep by Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley after he accidentally entered the wrong apartment in an unannounced SWAT team raid. On October 4, 2011, a Wayne County grand jury indicted Officer Joseph Weekley for involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. He said. In 2010 Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, a seven-year-old African American girl, was accidentally shot and killed during a raid that was conducted by the Detroit, Michigan Police Department's Special Response Team. In this current era, what she calls her "most confident" yet, she's channeling none other than her go-getter Bel-Air character Hilary Banks . Do a Google search for "Aiyana Jones" and you get just 42,200 results. We believe today's settlement is fair because it balances the needs of Aiyana's family and our responsibility for the city's finances. Young Municipal Center in Detroit. He was formerly a reporter for The Detroit News. This is not about policing, he said. You know? Weekley left the courtroom through a private door. Then Huff got killed. It's hurting me. Tens of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands. Besides, there was always a job in America when you needed one. Add in the fact that half the police precincts were closed in 2005 for budgetary reasons, and the crime lab was closed two years ago due to ineptitude, and it might explain why five of the nine members of the city council carry a firearm. Technicians are currently working on the problem. Over the next 50 years, Detroits East Side would become the worlds machine shop, its factory floor. I have . [36] Aiyana's case would be the longest presiding case that Hathaway had in more than 20 years of being on the bench. Listen on Apple Podcasts. Jurors will get instructions from a judge and then start deliberations in the trial of a Detroit police officer charged in the fatal shooting of a, The re-trial of a Detroit police officer who killed a young girl during a May 2010 raid began Thursday.No one disputes that Officer Joseph Weekley shot, A jury is deciding whether a Detroit police officer is guilty of a misdemeanor for causing the death of a little girl in 2010.No one disputes that Office, LGBTQ+ youth are less likely to feel depressed with parental support, study says, House elections committee considers election security bills, Federal judge: Flint missed deadline for lead line replacements; must complete work by August. We hope this resolution will provide everyone involved a measure of closure," Detroit Corporation Counsel Lawrence Garcia said in a statement, according to the Detroit News. Aiyana was killed when police raided a house to capture a murder suspect. On October 10, the second trial ended in another mistrial. [12] Owens was in the upstairs apartment. But the real mystery behind Officer Huffs murder is why Gibson was out on the street in the first place. And during our conversation, he referred to himself in the third personGeoffrey Fieger. He gave her $800 for funeral costs. Detroit, MI The family of Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a 7-year old girl shot and killed by a Detroit police officer, has received an $8.25 million settlement almost 9 years after the tragic incident. 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. The story rated three paragraphs in the daily papers, and the media never followed up. Outside, three men were loading the boiler, tubs, and sinks into a trailer to take to the scrap yard. The kids are dropping like fliesespecially young black malesand hes got nothing but useless words.. "I want to say to the entire Jones family, Aiyana's loved ones and friends, how terribly sorry I am for your loss. 2) NO WEAPONS OF ANY KIND WERE FOUND IN OR OUTSIDE THE HOME OF MERTILLA JONES after the police Special Response Team raid. She had already cleared a space on the other end of the mantel for Chaises urn. She denied grabbing the weapon. Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.. Nor is corruption a black or liberal thing. Officers deployeda "flash bang" grenadeand kicked in the front door, and raid team leader Joseph Weekley led the crewinto the house. It just goes on, she said. "(Jones') parole guideline score placed him in the high probability of parole range," Gautz said in an email. Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones for just $14.95. 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 raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. His retrial began in September 2014. 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. This has helped reinforce a culture shift within police departments. It regards itself as the temple of a new gospel of progress, to which I shall venture to give the name of Detroitism.. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. 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. It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder. 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. [51] She was buried on the grounds. But I cant accept it because they lied about it. Maybe because the cameras were rolling, maybe because a Detroit police officer had been murdered two weeks earlier while trying to apprehend a suspect. "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. Jones and two other men known as Lil James and Dirt rode along for JeReans ass-whipping. What the fuck do you think? he said. What happened after that is a matter of conjecture, as Detroit officials have had problems getting their stories straight. Sometimes they come in a Crown Victoria with only a defibrillator and a blanket, because there are no other units available. As for the videotape of the killing, Geoffrey Fieger said he did not have it. 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. It's now Monday at 10:30pm. Go. He wore a gold bracelet as thick as a gymnasium rope. They went hog wild. [34][35], Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. [6][7][8] Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It would also help inspire the creation of the Black Lives Matter Movementthree years later. 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. She looked at her barefoot grandson playing in the wreckage of the dwelling next door and wondered if he would make it to manhood. As Detroit led the nation in median income and homeownership, automation and foreign competition were forcing companies like Packard to shutter their doors. . Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley is accused of fatally shooting Aiyana during the raid that targeted a murder suspect. People involved. 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. At its peak popularity, 810 fires were set in a three-day span. Were going to pull people over for traffic violations and were going to take their cars if theyre not legal. Her body was transferred to the Wayne County morgue. 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. Her grandmother, Mertilla Jones, was close by. In the case of the night Aiyana was killed, many feel the situation did not call for a military-style bust at midnight. February 24, 2023. 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 are awake. His partner took the rear entrance. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. She arrived too late. Sherrors mom, in white, lost another son to a bullet the previous year. But the fact is Detroit and its suburbs were dying 40 years ago. Southeasterns motto is Age Quod Agis: Attend to Your Business. And JeRean did. 91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 Flint. [11], The jury claimed that race did not affect the decision of their verdict. It is a matter of conditioning, Cargill later told me. [39][40], On the second day of trial, September 24, LaKrystal Sanders, who lived on the upper floor of the house where Aiyana was killed, testified. 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). Take for instance the death of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was shot and killed during a police raid at their Detroit home. He admitted in his first trial that, "It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl. When I moved back to Detroit two years ago, I profiled a firehouse on the East Side. WAS IT SO SIMPLE? 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. . I can accept the shooting was a mistake, Jones said about his daughters death as a bleary-eyed Stanley sat motionless next to him. Oh, stay your ass right here, Owens growled. The mayors office is said to have a copy, as well as the Michigan State Police, who are now handling the investigation. FEMAIL reveals what has happened to . 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. [12] Weekley had been featured on another A&E police reality show, Detroit SWAT. 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. Weekley, 38, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death, a misdemeanor in the death of Aiyana. held a small rally in memory of Jones. Evans brought a refreshing honesty to a department plagued by ineptitude and secrecy. Of course I would. Short answer: Yesand no. [41] 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. "She's not a scapegoat. Both sons now sit in urns on her mantel.Chaise lived on the other side of the Chrysler complex. ", The mother of Jones' victim, Lyvonne Cargill, said: "I'm stressed thinking about that man coming home." European intellectuals wondered at the whirl of building and spending in the new America. Weekley insisted he accidentally pulled the trigger during a struggle with Aiyana's grandmother. ME Schmidt ruled it a homicide; the police decided it was a suicide. [16], Aiyana Jones was the daughter of Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley. On May 21, 2016, nearly six years after Joness death, the Detroit chapter of Black Lives Matter organized the first rally in her memory. The SWAT team tried the steel door to the building. Sharptons full of shit, said JeReans mother. 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. I am sick as hell. 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. It is not protocol. 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