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As I viewed the report on this precious baby girl. I heard something that was even more disturbing then Aiyana being murdered in cold blood.
This is when they brought Aiyana's life-less body out of the house they carried like she was not human at all, but like a dead animal!
This Clearly sets off bells and whistles and it also shows, the lack of concern for what DPD did in cold blood, then tried to cover it up.
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Aiyana Jones Was Sleeping According To Family
DETROIT - A family in Detroit mourns the loss of a seven-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed by police during a raid. The death of Aiyanna Jones is making national headlines, and there are currently many questions. How could something like this happen? What went on inside an east side Detroit home early Sunday morning?
Relatives of Aiyanna met with attorney Geoffrey Fieger on Monday and re-created the scene for his investigators. The girl was sleeping on a couch around 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 16 when officers with the Detroit Police Special Response Team threw a flash grenade through the window and an officer went inside, allegedly scuffled with her grandmother and then his gun went off. Aiyanna was hit in the neck.
Police were there looking for 34-year-old Chauncey Owens, suspected but not yet charged in the shooting death of 17-year-old Jerean Blake on Friday. Owens is the fiancee of Aiyanna's aunt, Lakrystal Sanders. He was arrested in the upstairs flat.
Assistant Chief Ralph Godbee says Detroit Police are handing their investigation over to Michigan State Police.
"We need an independent eye so, that from a community confidence standpoint, whatever findings are turned over to the prosecutor the community can have confidence that this was an independent investigation," he said.
Godbee says a thorough review of police tactics and procedures is underway.
The television show "The First 48" on A&E had been on scene with homicide investigators at Friday's shooting. "The First 48" videographers were also at the scene at the east side Detroit home. Detroit Police have given "The First 48" access to their investigations for several seasons. There is no financial component to the deal, and Detroit Police say their videographers did not go inside the flat and had no impact on their operation.
"'The First 48,' they were there. We're in the process of acquiring the footage so we can assess it, but we don't have that concern at this time," Godbee said.
The Coalition Against Police Brutality demonstrated outside an event where Attorney General Eric Holder was speaking, hoping to get the attention of the federal government.
"We want him to hear us. We want him to hear the pain of the people. We want him to hear about the young girl that was killed," said Ron Scott with the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality.
We understand the officer involved in this shooting is a 14 year veteran and has been on the Special Response Team for about six or seven years. He was involved in a police shooting one other time. It involved a barricaded gunman. That person fired at police and they returned fire. He was cleared of any wrongdoing in that case.
Meanwhile, Aiyanna's family has decided to take legal action against the Detroit Police Department. Their attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, says he has seen video of the raid and it goes against what police say happened Sunday morning.
This is what police say happened between the officer and the girl's grandmother: "Exactly what happened next is a matter still under investigation, but it appears the officer and the woman had some level of physical contact," said Godbee.
"That statement is a complete and utter falsehood," said Fieger.
The attorney is armed with at least two lawsuits that will be unveiled Tuesday and says he saw video tape from an unnamed source that shows a flash-bang grenade-type device was thrown into a window.
"And then within milliseconds of throwing that, firing a shot from outside the home while the Special Response Team was on the porch," Fieger said.
The bullet that killed Aiyanna, Fieger says, was fired before officers entered the home according to the video he saw. His case says there is a cover up by the Detroit Police Department.
Fieger also says the tape shows Aiyanna's body being removed by officers quickly.
"You see her being carried out by one officer, and it's not like she's a human being. She's out of that house faster than you would have expected," said Fieger.
Detroit Police late Monday said if Fieger does have video evidence, he should pass it along to the Michigan State Police for their investigation. Meanwhile, he is asking the department to tell what happened and leave the grandmother out of it.
"I would like the disclosure of how and why police officers came together in an attempt to blame a grandmother, who had nothing to do with anything for the death of a little girl," Fieger said.
So, there will be two lawsuits, one state and one federal, coming from Fieger's office against the police department. There will also be a lawsuit from the grandmother for being arrested on that night.
The family will be at Fieger's Southfield office Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. where they will be holding a news conference with their lawyer talking about Aiyanna and her untimely death.
But Fieger said the video shows an officer lobbing the grenade and then shooting into the home from the porch.
"There is no question about what happened because it's in the videotape," Fieger said. "It's not an accident. It's not a mistake. There was no altercation."
"Aiyana Jones was shot from outside on the porch. The videotape shows clearly the officer throwing through the window a stun grenade-type explosive and then within milliseconds of throwing that, firing a shot from outside the home," he said.
A woman brings balloons and flowers to a memorial at the house where a 7-year-old girl was shot and killed by police in Detroit, Monday, May 17, 2010. State police will take over the investigation of the fatal shooting of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones by a Detroit police officer during a weekend raid at the girl's home, a prosecutor said Monday. 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.
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