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Thread #155651   Message #3686918
Posted By: wysiwyg
18-Dec-14 - 05:02 PM
Thread Name: USA, Black Lives Lost in Police Actions
Subject: RE: Another Black Man Shot by Cop
Thanks, Troubador. Just curious, do you have a membership? Are you on FB? (Can you get word to me offthread?)

The scope widens again. (A permathread would have to be very carefully titled, such as "Black Lives Lost in Police Actions," becausse:

Death of Aiyana Jones
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born         Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley Jones
July 20, 2002
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Died         May 16, 2010 (aged 7)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Cause of death
        Gunshot
Resting place
        Trinity Cemetery
5210 Mount Elliott Street
Detroit, Michigan 48211
Nationality         American
Other names         Aiyana Stanley-Jones
Ethnicity         African American
Citizenship         United States
Known for         shot in police raid
Parents         Charles Jones (father) Dominika Stanley (mother)

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.[3] Her death drew national media attention[4] and led U.S. Representative John Conyers to ask U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for a federal investigation into the incident.

Officer Joseph Weekley was charged in connection with Jones' death. In October 2011, Weekley was charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013.

Weekley's retrial began in September 2014. On October 3, the judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Weekley, leaving him on trial for only one charge: recklessly discharging a firearm.

On October 10, the second trial ended in an another mistrial.

Photo of an angel the raiding police never thought to worry about before shooting in an occupied building:

MONAY JONES IN LIFE

~Susan