So bad is the rivalry that when the schools face off to play football or basketball, spectators from the visiting team are banned. 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. A minute later, a friend took the two dollars as a keepsake. ReverendAl Sharpton gave the eulogy. 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. By parental neglect? 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. 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 . [12][17][18] Officer Weekley claimed that the flash grenade subsequently blinded his view of the person on the couch in the living room. Instead of being protected, communities are treated like the enemy, the report found with a disproportionate effect on communities of color. 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. The family is seeking $7.5 million in damages and a jury trial conceded by the court filing. 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. 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. A good kid with average grades, JeRean went to Southeastern High, which is situated in an industrial belt of moldering Chrysler assembly plants. It's us but for your ears. Casei Jones, 32, and her four children Cameron Bowers, 10, Preston Bowers, 5, Mercalli Jones, 2, and Aiyana Jones, 1, were missing for almost a month. It was all for the cameras. Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. Inside the lower unit of a duplex halfway down the gloomy street, Charles Jones, 25, was pacing, unable to sleep. [4], Officer Joseph Weekley was charged in connection with Jones' killing. Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.. On May 21, 2016, nearly six years after Joness death, the Detroit chapter of Black Lives Matter organized the first rally in her memory. 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. Hes from New York. The house on the other side is in much the same state. If he didn't give him the gun, they feel like their brother would still be alive, and Aiyana would still be alive.". These Wigs Install in Seconds. Almost half of all adults are illiterate.Duncan may lie awake, but many civic leaders appear to walk around with their eyes sealed shut. 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. A member of JROTC, he was on his way to the military recruitment office after senior prom and commencement. Once at Aiyanas graveside, Charles Jones released a dove. Even Time bought a house on the East Side last year for $99,000. The story rated three paragraphs in the daily papers, and the media never followed up. Bagpipes played and the rain fell. [47], On September 29, Weekley's lawyer asked the judge for a mistrial, citing Mertilla Jones's conduct on the stand the week before. [24] Geoffrey Fieger, the family's lawyer, said the police fired the shot that struck Aiyana from outside the home, possibly through the open front door. AP Photo/The Detroit News, John T. Greilick, How Alaska became one of fentanyl's deadliest frontiers, Pennsylvania police seized gloves, flashlight from home of Idaho murders suspect, Where things stand in the Alex Murdaugh double murder trial. The fact is a police officer threw the flash grenade through the window of the house that landed on Aiyana's blanket . Theyd not been tabulated for four years. Now, Jones family attorney Geoffrey Fieger and the city of Detroit confirm theyve settled the case for $8.25 million. Evans drivera copgave chase. Listen on Apple Podcasts. Not even you.. 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. [9][10] Weekley was transferred from the Special Response Team to the Criminal Investigations Bureau. . On a hot afternoon around one Mothers Day, I was working in the back greenhouse. I am sick. In Michigan, the designation for homicide is actually 750.316 (PDF), but thats just a mouthful of detail. 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. Fieger alleged a police cover-up. That house, too, is on the citys East Side, a nondescript brick duplex with a crumbling garage whose driveway funnels into busy Schoenherr Road. 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. 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. Sanders was Aiyana Jones's paternal aunt, the girlfriend of Chauncey Owens, and the daughter of Mertilla Jones. 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[32][33] Allison Howard was sentenced to two years of probation in July 2013, and fined $2,000. They killed a child and then they lied about it.. For that he was given simple probation. Later that day, Detroit Police identified Chauncey Owens as a suspect in the shooting and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Radley Balko | 5.24.2010 3:00 PM. FEMAIL reveals what has happened to . Her parents say they hope Aiyana will be remembered as more than a symbol of heightened tension in a city in crisis. 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. Officials said Gibson ran out the front of the house. But according to a witness, he said nothing. Its easy in our anger, our rage, to just vent and scream. Then she introduced me to her 14-year-old son DeErion, whose remains sat in an urn on the mantel. Sharptons people called JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, promising to come over to her house after Aiyanas funeral. The story smelled to high heaven from the beginning. For community members and advocates, the bigger question is why a Swat team was deployed in the first place. [31] In June 2013, Howard pleaded "no contest" to the obstruction of justice charge, and the perjury charge was dismissed. Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones (July 20, 2002 May 16, 2010) was a seven-year-old African-American girl from Detroit's East Side who was shot in the neck and killed by police officer Joseph Weekley during a raid conducted by the Detroit Police Department's Special Response Team targeting a suspect in the apartment a floor above Jones' on May 16, 2010. Forget about it. 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. 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. [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. Plus, grenades are rarely used when rounding up suspects, even murder suspects. Furthermore, the police department and unnamed supervisors of the Special Response Team in the city of Detroit were being sued for violating the civil rights of Aiyana Jones through their training and policy procedure. The whole country knew it, and the whole country laughed. But Geoffrey Fieger calls it police arrogance. You might blame it on the urban renewal and interstate highway projects that rammed a freeway down the middle of Paradise Valley, displacing thousands of blacks and packing the Negro tenements tighter still. The presence of children in the house was known. Aiyana was buried in a white casket which was driven to her grave site by a horse-drawn carriage. There were even toys on the lawn. Thats how its supposed to be done.. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. What does the science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic? Outside court, a spokesman for Aiyana's family criticized the judge for her comments. [54][55], Attorney Fieger claimed that footage, from an undisclosed source, showed that the lethal bullet came from outside the home, rather than inside, as police said. 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