7 years old kid killed by police who were excited by a tv reality show

ungovernable · May 21, 2010

It was a raid in the house of a suspect supposed to be the object of an emission by a tv reality show called "The First 48"... The polices were excited and even if they were alerted of the presence of a young kid, they threw in a flashbang and shot dead the 7 years old kid

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Trigger Warning for graphic descriptions of police violence and gun violence.

Aiyana Stanley Jones was 7-years-old. On Sunday morning, she was asleep on the couch in her family’s home.

Aiyana is now dead. She is dead after the home was raided by police. Police, searching for a murder suspect, threw a flash grenade through the window around midnight. According to Aiyana’s father, it landed on the couch, setting Aiyana on fire. A police officer’s gun then went off, and shot Aiyana in the head or neck.

Aiyana was asleep on the living room sofa in her family’s apartment when Detroit police, searching for a homicide suspect, burst in and an officer’s gun went off, fatally striking the girl in the neck, family members said.

Her father, 25-year-old Charles Jones, told The Detroit News he had just gone to bed early Sunday after covering his daughter with her favorite blanket when he heard a flash grenade followed by a gunshot. When he rushed into the living room, he said, police forced him to lie on the ground, with his face in his daughter’s blood.

“I’ll never be the same. That’s my only daughter,” Jones told WXYZ-TV.

I don’t have the words. What words are there, for a little girl being killed in her own home, by the same people our society claims are supposed to protect her? What words are there, when a home that reportedly had toys outside and contained multiple children is violently raided in the middle of the night, without concern for their safety? What words are there, when this little girl was killed in front of her family, when her father was left unable to even try to help her, and forced to lay in her blood? What words are there, when a police officer’s lack of control over his own drawn weapon in a house full of children is referred to as an “accident” with a straight face? What words, when black citizens have to constantly fear systematic police brutality and violence, not only against themselves but also against their small children?

There are not words for that. Not sufficient words. Not words filled enough with rage and sorrow. Not words that can adequately honor her family’s pain. Not words that can bring Aiyana back or undo this horrific crime.

As Adrienne Maree Brown says in a gut-wrenching post:

there is no justice. not for aiyana stanley jones.

there is punishment, and perhaps accountability. someone to point towards, many people, a trail of blame, stories, mistakes and tears.

but there is no justice.

She goes on to write:

every thread i pick up in the story leads to more impossible questions.

why are police officers legally able to use military tactics on a house with children in it on a sunday morning…or any morning, on any house, with anyone in it?
why do the grieving faces of people on this street look so unsurprised?
and when 17-year-old Jerean Blake was killed Friday, wasn’t that equally devastating? did we do enough as a community at that moment?
do we know how to keep our children safe?
can we admit that we don’t know anything about how to be the kind of society where this could never happen?

to step back from the immediate events is to see what happens in communities who internalize the corporate military worldview that some people are expendable. the way we function as an economy that places profit first is that it’s normal for people in uniform to throw bombs into the home of civilians and shoot children.

an economy that valued people first could never justify those tactics.

I suggest you read her whole post. I certainly can’t say it better, nor can I say it from a position of such close proximity.

A vigil for Aiyana has already been held. Protests against the Detroit Police Department are currently in the works as I write this, and more memorials may also be in the process of being planned. If you have concrete information on any of these events, please leave it in the comments.
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(CNN) -- An attorney representing the family of a 7-year-old girl shot to death Sunday in a police raid is accusing the Detroit Police Department of misrepresenting the incident.

In an interview with CNN affiliate WDIV on Monday, Michigan attorney Geoffrey Fieger said he obtained video footage of the incident captured by a crew filming for the A&E network show, "The First 48."

Fieger, who didn't say how he received the tape, said it shows officers rushing the home and throwing a flash grenade through a window before one officer fires into the home from the front porch.

However, according to Assistant Police Chief Ralph Godbee, preliminary information indicates that members of the Detroit Police Special Response Team approached the house and announced themselves as police. Godbee cited the officers involved and at least one independent witness.

Godbee said officers used a "flash bang" device, entered the home and encountered a 46-year-old female inside the front room.

"Exactly what happened next is a matter still under investigation, but it appears the officer and the woman had some level of physical contact," Godbee said in a statement Sunday. "At about this time, the officer's weapon discharged one round which, tragically, struck 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley Jones in the neck/head area."

Police were executing a search warrant in the search for the suspect in a shooting Friday that killed a high school student.

Godbee said the 34-year-old suspect was found and arrested at the home where the girl was shot. In addition, a vehicle and a moped matching the descriptions of those involved in the shooting of 17-year-old Jarean Blake were also found, he said.

Fieger called the explanation from police "entirely false."

"Of course, I have seen the videotape and the videotape vividly portrays the fact that a percussion grenade device was thrown through the front window and a shot was fired immediately from the outside from the porch," he said.

"No murder suspect was found in Aiyana's house," Fieger said in Monday's interview. "In fact, there's an upstairs apartment next door which the police did not have a search warrant for and that is where he surrendered, they went into that house too. But he was not in Aiyana's house."

Aiyana's father, Charles Jones, also has denied that the suspect was in his home.

Detroit police spokesman Phillip Cook told reporters Monday that he was not aware of the video and declined to comment. The investigation, he said, has been taken over by state police to preserve the "community's trust."

A source at A&E, who asked not to be identified citing company policy, confirmed that a crew was on the scene and that the footage was confiscated by police. He would not comment on what the crew had captured on video.

Another police spokesman said the department would not identify the suspect in Blake's shooting death until he has been formally charged by prosecutors. The suspect remains in custody.

Godbee, in his statement Sunday, said he wished to "express to the family of Aiyana Jones the profound sorrow that we feel within the Detroit Police Department and throughout this community. We know that no words can do anything to take away the pain you are feeling at this time."

Police obtained the "high-risk search warrant" based on intelligence, and it was approved by the prosecutor and a magistrate, Godbee said. "Because of the ruthless and violent nature of the suspect in this case, it was determined that it would be in the best interest of public safety to execute the search warrant as soon as possible and detain the suspect ... while we sought a murder warrant."

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

* Attorney for family of girl killed in police raid says he has video footage of raid
* Crew from A&E network was filming for "The First 48," lawyer says
* 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
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Lunadimae · May 21, 2010

Fucking pigs, if I were that girl's father I would have raped that fucking shit.

easy e · May 21, 2010

detroit police are awful. they've always been awful. they've never given a fuck about anything before, so they really shouldn't try to start now.

alco-cur · May 21, 2010

not only detroit police.....police is awful....i hate 'em....grgrggrr....

rude-boy · May 21, 2010

wow that is intense. so the suspect they were after was in the apertment beside them? poor girl..poor family.

raindeer667 · May 21, 2010

detroit people perhaps need everyone's support and solidarity instead of mere news coverage...

detroit is much to far, but searching the internet and proactive efforts can do alot more than observe.

deadsmart · May 23, 2010

That's fucking horrible.

AND they were filming that "First 48" show?
So that mean they went in there full force to show off?
I think I've seen parts of that, it's where they say they only have 48hrs to catch whomever.

It's hard to say (with the police force)but I wonder if it wouldve ended without the death of an innocent girl if they weren't doing some dumb TV shit.

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