The judge said she's willing to be the "scapegoat" if critics don't like the result. His motive, authorities say, was that the teen failed to pay him the proper respect. Tens of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? 1894 shipwreck found in Lake Huron, confirming "powerful, tragic story", Garland to face Congress amid ongoing special counsel investigations, FBI chief says agency feels pandemic likely started with Chinese lab leak. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The city grew to 1.3 million people from 300,000 after Ford opened his Model T factory. The blood was congealing into a pancake on the dirty linoleum. Do you got a problem or something? While other American metropolises have gotten control of their murder rate, Detroits remains where it was during the crack epidemic. Thats five times as many as New York, in a city one-tenth the size. Its too late.. Her grandmother, Mertilla Jones, was close by. God, dont take my baby.. About 350 people are murdered each year in Detroit. 20072023 Blackpast.org. Gibson bonded out last January and actually showed up for his trial in circuit court on February 17. [12] Weekley had been featured on another A&E police reality show, Detroit SWAT. Murder suspect Chauncey Louis Owens, the target of the raid, will be charged. 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. The day Barrens cleaned out his desk, a burglar cleaned out Barrens house. [36] Aiyana's case would be the longest presiding case that Hathaway had in more than 20 years of being on the bench. 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. As for the videotape of the killing, Geoffrey Fieger said he did not have it. [66] On July 20, 2016 Detroit police arrested six unknown individuals for chaining themselves to a precinct of the Detroit Police Department, their protest honoring Jones. This happened on Sunday. Cargill said because of COVID-19 restrictions, she was unable to attend Jones' parole hearings to contest his release. IT WAS JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on the morning of May 16 and the neighbors say the streetlights were out on Lillibridge Street. Jarrette Jones and Iyanna McNeely. Impoverished communities such as Detroit, which is almost 83% black and has a poverty rate of 39%, have been on the receiving end of a decades-long war on drugs, which has made the US the country with the largest number of people behind bars, ahead of China and Russia. 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. And TV may have needed some pyrotechnics. Why would anyone move a gunshot victim, much less toss him in a car? You might blame the 1967 race riot and the white flight that followed. 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. The problem once the police start amassing these kinds of weapons and tools and absorb a certain mentality, is it just increases the probability that they are going to deploy it even when not warranted, Edwards says. On January 28, 2015, a prosecutor cleared Weekley of the last remaining charge against him, ensuring there would not be a third trial. I asked Fieger if Charles Jones should accept some culpability in his daughters death, considering his alleged role in JeReans murder, the stolen cars found in his backyard, and the fact that his daughter slept on the couch next to an unlocked door. Detroit VA hospital harmed patients, altered records, investigation reveals, $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Danny Wilcox Frazier is a contributing photographer for Mother Jones. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? They want to blame her parents and her aunt who is engaged to the murder suspect. Sarah Cwiek joined Michigan Radio in October 2009. But police officials have refused to discuss how one got shot in the foot. 91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids On Friday, Hathaway dismissed a lesser second charge, of reckless use of a firearm. It is like that all over Detroit, where whole blocks regularly go dark with no warning or any apparent pattern. A few minutes after that, JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, arrived and got behind the wheel of the car that friends had dragged him into. 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.. Over the next 50 years, Detroits East Side would become the worlds machine shop, its factory floor. "(Jones') parole guideline score placed him in the high probability of parole range," Gautz said in an email. 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. 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 . His partner took the rear entrance. 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. But in 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. Soon, the air was the color of a filthy dishrag. What the fuck you looking at?. 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 . She told me that JeReans best friend Chaise Sherrors, 17, had been murdered the night beforean innocent bystander who took a bullet in the head as he was on a porch clipping someones hair. 3) Weekley's claims that Mertilla Jones grabbed . Have him call me, and then hung up the phone. As far-fetched as what happened to the Joneses may sound, they are not . The jury stall resulted in seven voting "not guilty" and five voting "guilty". Cole's character, it turns out, is a drug dealer. As Officer Weekley wept on the sidewalk, Aiyana was rushed to the trauma table, where she was pronounced dead. 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. I began to get calls from reporters around the world wondering what Detroit was like, what was happening here. Theyd not been tabulated for four years. 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. 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. Take for instance the death of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was shot and killed during a police raid at their Detroit home. So bad is it for Detroits children that Education Secretary Arne Duncan said last year, I lose sleep over that one.. Even Time bought a house on the East Side last year for $99,000. The lawsuit asserts that police were outside of the home where they "blindly fired random shots," and one of the bullets fatally struck the 7-year-old child in the neck. He gives details of the way streets look like at night, and gives a captivating detail of girl's father suffering from insomnia. On April 4, 2019, Aiyanas family settled with Detroit for $8.25 million. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley is accused of fatally shooting Aiyana during the raid that targeted a murder suspect. I lingered a moment, backing out while taking it in: the bracelet, the liquor, the blood, the gun, the Ho-Hos, the cheapness of it all. JeReans mother drove as he gurgled in the backseat. Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway address the court on Friday. "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. Not even you.. But if it wasnt for them, the city population would have sunk further than it did. 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. . It just goes on, she said. Owens sped two blocks back to Lillibridge and gathered up a posse, according to his statement to the police. Dont bother locking it. Evans brought a refreshing honesty to a department plagued by ineptitude and secrecy. 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?. [12] At the time of the incident Aiyana Jones was asleep on the couch in front room of the downstairs apartment. The fire department is little better. Lyvonne Cargill wears a shirt that honors her son, JeRean Blake Nobles. Weekley insisted he accidentally pulled the trigger during a struggle with Aiyana's grandmother. Even in Detroit, a predominantly black city. Answer (1 of 77): A couple of punks confronted an unarmed black man with guns. WAS IT SO SIMPLE? The First 48 photographer Allison Howard was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. 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. Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. But the people of Lillibridge Street still look like theyve been picked up by their hair and dropped from the rooftop. I dont want no apology from no police. "[60], In September 2013, J. Cole published a music video dedicated to Jones for his song Crooked Smile, featuring TLC on YouTube. The crumbling houses still crumble. [12][17][18] Officer Weekley claimed that the flash grenade subsequently blinded his view of the person on the couch in the living room. Inside, splayed on the floor underneath the rack of snack cakes near the register, was a black man in a pool of blood. But defense attorney Steve Fishman says Jones has no credibility because she's told different stories about what happened. One witness had him pegged for 13 years old. What I find ironic is a friend of the punks released his video t. He came here for publicity. The psychopathology of growing up in Detroit, he said. Other auto plants sprang up on the East Side: Packard, Studebaker, Chryslers Dodge Main. Aiyanas death garnered national attention, including sharp criticism from the Revs. A good kid who showed neighborhood children how to work electric clippers, his dream was to open a barbershop. Sometimes they come in a Crown Victoria with only a defibrillator and a blanket, because there are no other units available. His body was transferred to Dr. Schmidt and the Wayne County morgue. "It bothers them," she said. Fiegers suburban office is a shrine to Geoffrey Fieger. Two years later he was sentenced to an additional 12 months for violating . There were even toys on the lawn. You could blame it on the gas shocks of the 70s that opened the door to foreign car competition. I went to visit Cargill, who lived just around the way. Short answer: Yesand no. 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, Jones lawyer said. There are some 10,000 unsolved homicides dating back to 1960. 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Jones and two other men known as Lil James and Dirt rode along for JeReans ass-whipping. "We had to do it by paperwork, and they read the letters from my side of the family (during the parole hearing)," Cargill said. In the process, the gun belonging to police officer Joseph Weekley . Police caught him again in November 2009 in possession of a handgun stolen from an Ohio cop. Editors note: On October 4, 2011, following a yearlong investigation by the Michigan state police, Officer Weekley was charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm. 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. Coco Jones has lived many lives. They were conducting a police raid in search of a murder suspect who lived at that address -- and being filmed for a reality TV show in the process -- when Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally fired his gun. Outside, three men were loading the boiler, tubs, and sinks into a trailer to take to the scrap yard. A minute later, a friend took the two dollars as a keepsake. . Not all of us are blessed.. But our ammos so bad, we cant do ballistics testing. Not to worry: The city had its own welfare system, decades before Lyndon Johnsons Great Society. And he wouldnt even help her. I want to get out of here, but I cant, she said. More than 4,000 people attended Officer Huffs funeral at the Greater Grace Temple on the citys Northwest Side. There are no fewer than two TV dramas, two documentaries, and three reality programs being filmed here. And now that the papers do cover Detroit, boosters complain about a lack of balance. I cant heal properly because of it. 91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 Flint. I think its one of the lowest things I have ever seen.. JeRean might have thought it was funny to see a grown man driving a moped. Lord Jesus, I ain't never seen nothing like that in my life."--Mertilla Jones, Aiyana's grandmother. [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. Then they said he ran out the back of the house, even though there is no back door. The camera crew was not inside the house when the girl was hit. Do a Google search for "Aiyana Jones" and you get just 42,200 results. Detroit grew restless. No one cared much about Detroit or its industrial suburbs until the Dow collapsed, the chief executives of the Big Three went to Washington to grovel, and General Motors declared bankruptcy100 years after its founding. 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. Jones, 25, a slight man with frizzy braids, wore a dingy T-shirt. I saw the tape and wrote about its existence after the killing of Aiyana, but the story went nowhere until two months later, when someone in City Hall leaked a copy to the local ABC affiliate. Hes from New York. I think its abominable. He admitted in his first trial that, "It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl. This could be a precedent setting case if the Court . Thats how its supposed to be done.. Blame the Federal Reserve. And there are. He said. Forget about it. Do you find this information helpful? Inside the lower unit of a duplex halfway down the gloomy street, Charles Jones, 25, was pacing, unable to sleep. The official version was that two men were walking in the middle of a street on the East Side when Evans and his driver told them to walk on the sidewalk. Aiyana was killed when police raided a house to capture a murder suspect. Within seconds, Weekleyfired hisMP5 rifle, killingAiyana, who was sleeping on the living room couch with her grandmother Mertilla Jones. BlackPast.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and our EIN is 26-1625373. I mean, hiring the Rosa Parks carriage?, I dont owe Sheffield shit, says Jones. 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. Weekley will not go to a third trial. (And that statistic is true; I checked.). Seconds after Aiyana's blanket caught fire, the SWAT team stormed through the door, and mistakenly shot Aiyana through the neck, killing her. I think its evil. Clutching his juice in one hand and two dollars in the other, JeRean staggered across Mack Avenue and collapsed in the street. 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. The story smelled to high heaven from the beginning. Owens didn't like the way the Southeastern High School teen had looked at him, according to court testimony. Owens switched his moped for a Chevy Blazer. "But I can tell you this: If anyone is looking for a scapegoat for justice, then you've got one here as owner, coach and quarterback. It feels like there aint no love no more.. JEREAN BLAKE NOBLES was one of the rare black males in Detroit who made it (PDF) through high school. It's been a year since 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley Joneswas killed by members of a Detroit Special Response team. Its always like that. 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. I left McNeals porch and started my car. But even he couldnt stanch the tsunami of red ink; the deficit ballooned more than $140 million under his guidance. A former risk manager for the district was indicted for siphoning off $3 million for personal use. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. [51] She was buried on the grounds. He became a horrifying statisticone of 103 kids and teens murdered between January 2009 and July 2010. Weekley, 38, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death, a misdemeanor in the death of Aiyana. 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. Jones new family had been on the drift for the past few years as he tried to pull it together. I called the fire department to ask for its statistics. 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. Sherrors was killed by a stray bullet while cutting a friends hair on a front porch just 27 days after JeRean died. The prisoner has not incurred any serious misconducts while in prison. He might have smirked. 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. 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. The department was also cited for excessive force after people died in lockup and at the hands of rogue cops. Desperation, she said, feels like someones reaching down your throat and ripping out your guts. Its police disinformation.. Chief Evans might have survived it all, had he, too, not been drawn to the lights of Hollywood. It also allowed a man to escape the smoldering city. [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. AS SUMMER DRAGGED on, the story of Aiyana faded from even the regional press. WRSX 91.3 Port Huron is off the air due to network issues. In the end, Gibson was charged with Huffs murder and the attempted murders of four more officers. 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