At the prosecutors request, Hathaway dismissed the last charge against Joseph Weekley. The department decided to withdraw him from active duty shortly after the shooting on May 16, 2010. DETROITS EAST SIDE is now the poorest, most violent quarter of Americas poorest, most violent big city. But is she responsible for police officers with broken computers in their squad cars, firefighters with holes in their boots, ambulances that arrive late, a city that cant keep its lights on and leaves its vacant buildings to the arsonists match, a state government that allows corpses to stack up in the morgue, multinational corporations that move away and leave poisoned fields behind, judges who let violent criminals walk the streets, school stewards who steal the childrens milk money, elected officials who loot the city, automobile executives who couldnt manage a grocery store, or Wall Street grifters who destroyed the economy and left the nations children with a burden of debt? Evans drivera copgave chase. Look at the Trending Topics on Twitter. [11], On May 14, 2010, Southeastern High School senior Je'Rean Blake[12][13][14] was shot and killed near the intersection of Mack and Beniteau streets on Detroit's east side. The landlord of the duplex, Edward Taylor, let me into the Jones apartment. Its easy in our anger, our rage, to just vent and scream. 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. That year, the police said there were 306 homicidesuntil I began digging. [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. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. Dante Barry, a 26-year-old organizer and executive director of the Million Hoodies Movement for Justice, said the outcome of the case was disappointing but not surprising. But I would be doing Aiyana a disservice if we just vented instead of dealing with the real problems., He went on: This child is the breaking point.. That night, she was murdered by the very people meant to "protect" and "serve" her. Of course I would. Seven-year-old Aiyana Jones was sleeping on the couch next to her grandmother in their Detroit, Michigan home when a SWAT team threw a flashbang through the window, which landed on her blanket. It was 2:40 in the afternoon on May 14 when JeRean went to the Motor City liquor store and ice-cream stand to get himself an orange juice to wash down his McDonalds. Would you take a job at that Chrysler plant if there were any jobs there? I asked one of the men, who was sweating under the weight of the cast iron. As for the struggles of a generation of living people, the murder of a hundred children, they ask me: Whats new in that?. Today, reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget, allows us to dig deep on stories that matter, and lets us keep our reporting free for everyone. As for the tape that Geoffrey Fieger claimed would show the cops firing on Aiyanas house from outside, A&E turned it over to the police. Within seconds, Weekleyfired hisMP5 rifle, killingAiyana, who was sleeping on the living room couch with her grandmother Mertilla Jones. Radley Balko | 5.24.2010 3:00 PM. Judge Hathaway emphasized that two juries, in 2013 and 2014, couldn't reach a unanimous verdict. Were taking whats left.. Someone radioed in, and more police arrivedbut the official story of what happened that night has changed repeatedly. They want to blame her parents and her aunt who is engaged to the murder suspect. Then there is the thought that Detroit is simply a boomtown that went bust the minute Henry Ford began to build it. That is, until someone realized that the schools are controlled by rival gangs. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. I was thinking that, she said with tears. For community members and advocates, the bigger question is why a Swat team was deployed in the first place. The ones pictured here are all found on one block. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. Then eight, then eleven. The flashbacks. But the people of Lillibridge Street still look like theyve been picked up by their hair and dropped from the rooftop. They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. He came here for publicity. Police report that they arrested the suspect at the duplex where the . [34][35], Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. But McNeal messed upshe admits as much. I called the fire department to ask for its statistics. Weve got nothing but bullet fragments., A neighbor who tends the lawn in front of the dope house out of respect to Huff wonders why so many cops came in the first place, given that the police hardly come around at all, much less that many cops that fast on a home break-in.. 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. A reality TV crew recorded the scene from the street. Thats how its supposed to be done.. Protestors pleaded for the termination of Officer Weekley as he had been selected to co-chair the Detroit Police Department's Committee on Race and Equality. "It bothers them," she said. On a hot afternoon around one Mothers Day, I was working in the back greenhouse. Forbidden by restrictive real estate covenants and racist custom, the blacks were mostly restricted to Paradise Valley, which ran the length of Woodward Avenue. Evans driver dropped him with a single shot. JeRean might have thought it was funny to see a grown man driving a moped. [12] Owens was in the upstairs apartment. She arrived too late. But if it wasnt for them, the city population would have sunk further than it did. The flower shop is just a pile of bricks now, but despite what the Arab told me, I did not forget what I saw. This could be a precedent setting case if the Court . Other auto plants sprang up on the East Side: Packard, Studebaker, Chryslers Dodge Main. For that he was given simple probation. Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights. Thirty-four hours earlier, JeRean Blake Nobles, 17, had been shot outside a liquor store on nearby Mack Avenue; an informant had IDd a man named Chauncey Owens as the shooter and provided this address. Not to worry: The city had its own welfare system, decades before Lyndon Johnsons Great Society. His body was transferred to Dr. Schmidt and the Wayne County morgue. Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. "(Jones') parole guideline score placed him in the high probability of parole range," Gautz said in an email. Aiyana Stanley-Jones, who was shot and killed in her sleep by a bullet from Joseph Weekley's gun during the A&E filmed documented raid was laid to rest at the Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit on May 22, 2010. JeRean balled up his tiny fist. The manslaughter trial was declared a mistrial. Me? Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones for just $14.95. Skyscrapers sprang up virtually overnight. Newspapers made little of ituntil the US Attorney revealed that the federal monitor of the decree was having an affair with the priapic mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was forced to resign, and now sits in prison convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. This was the first raid on a house since his death. Many are as fucked up and sad as Aiyanas. Sheffield came to see Cargill. Why you do this to me? Thats a hell of a pair of bookends, I offered. Inexplicably, its carcass still stands and burns incessantly. Funeral for Chaise Sherrors, JeReans best friend. Then Evans own driver shot a man last October. City of Detroit Corporation CounselLawrence Garciahas treated the family with utter disrespect and disdain. That was before he canceled a planned press conference to discuss the upcoming case. Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.. [25], Chauncey Owens, the suspect who the raid was intended to apprehend and boyfriend of Aiyana's aunt LaKrystal Sanders,[26] was found in the upper-floor apartment of the duplex and surrendered without incident. Inside, splayed on the floor underneath the rack of snack cakes near the register, was a black man in a pool of blood. The killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. Police Chief James Craig stated, "He'll be in a limited duty capacity. Behind him stood two rookies. And America is buying. I forgive him, but I don't forget what he did.". Which is what he was doing at this house, authorities contend, when he put three bullets in Officer Huffs face. Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. His murder led to the police raid that killed Aiyana.With large swaths of the city rewildingempty lots are returning to prairie and woodland as the city depopulatesSoutheastern was slated to absorb students from nearby Kettering High this year as part of a massive school-consolidation effort. Aiyana Jones was killed nine years ago during a police raid gone wrong and no convictions were made. Now, Jones family attorney Geoffrey Fieger and the city of Detroit confirm theyve settled the case for $8.25 million. The illiteracy, child poverty, and unemployment rates hover around 50 percent. Seconds after Aiyana's blanket caught fire, the SWAT team stormed through the door, and mistakenly shot Aiyana through the neck, killing her. Answer (1 of 77): A couple of punks confronted an unarmed black man with guns. 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.. Officials said Gibson ran out the front of the house. Aiyana Jones was 7 when she was killed in a police raid. The home was the target of a midnight Swat-style operation designed to arrest her uncle who was living in the apartment upstairs and was the main suspect in the murder of a teenager a couple days before. It went straight through the childs head. [20] He pushed his way inside, protected by a ballistic shield. But police officials have refused to discuss how one got shot in the foot. It was 12:40 am on Sunday, May 16, 2010. Two trials against Officer Joseph Weekley ended without verdicts on a charge of reckless use of a gun. 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. Jones does not have a release date identified, although he could be freed as early as Thursday, Gautz said. One year after a Detroit police assault team shot 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones to death in her home while A&E's "First 48" TV show was filming, neither Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy nor U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has brought charges against those responsible. In October, judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed a charge of involuntary manslaughter, citing a lack of evidence. The family of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Detroit police officers, following a raid that led to the death of the child. People are awake. Jones wasgiven a "contingency parole" after completing required prison programs, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz said Monday. Another cruiser with two officers responded as well. In 2010 Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, a seven-year-old African American girl, was accidentally shot and killed during a raid that was conducted by the Detroit, Michigan Police Department's Special Response Team. His brother stood over the dead man, a pistol in his hand, keeping an eye on the door in case someone walked in wanting to settle things. The bullet hit a child. What the fuck you looking at?. The radio was tuned to NPR and A Prairie Home Companion came warbling out of my speakers. "I want to say to the entire Jones family, Aiyana's loved ones and friends, how terribly sorry I am for your loss. Owens switched his moped for a Chevy Blazer. There are some 10,000 unsolved homicides dating back to 1960. He was charged twice with involuntary manslaughter, but both cases ended in mistrials. The Kilpatrick scandal, combined with the murder rate, spurred the newly elected mayor, Dave Bingan NBA Hall of Famerto fire Police Chief James Barrens last year and replace him with Warren Evans, the Wayne County sheriff. The lawsuit charges Rowe[who?] It was unlocked. As it turns out, he was filming a pilot for his own reality show, entitled The Chief. He said. They still owe me rent, he said with a face about the Joneses. You should go, he said to me, shattering the silence with a wave of his hand. 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. Danny Wilcox Frazier is a contributing photographer for Mother Jones. Cole's character, it turns out, is a drug dealer. The Detroit City Council needs to approve the settlement. It's hurting me. His seven-year-old daughter, Aiyana Monay Stanley-Jones (PDF), slept on the couch as her grandmother watched television. . The number was actually 375. [47], On September 29, Weekley's lawyer asked the judge for a mistrial, citing Mertilla Jones's conduct on the stand the week before. A woman was in his car, the motor running. Aiyanas death garnered national attention, including sharp criticism from the Revs. Forget what you saw, little man. It was a sweatbox, and I went across the street to the liquor store for a soda pop. My daughter got love, honor, and respect. 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. Copyright 2023 Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. On May 14, 2010, JeRean Blake, a senior at Southeastern High School of Technology and Law was shot and killed near an intersection on Detroits east side. For years it was the all-but-official policy of the newspapers to ignore the black city, since the majority of readers lived in the predominantly white suburbs. She waited, but Sharpton never came. They were conducting a police raid in search of a. The auto industry allowed for sprawl. By parental neglect? About 40 kids were milling around in front of the soft-serve window. A bunch of lazy, uneducated blue-collar incompetents. 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. Clutching his juice in one hand and two dollars in the other, JeRean staggered across Mack Avenue and collapsed in the street. Based on the findings from a report released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in June 2014 and entitled War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing, which looked at thousands of documents from police departments across the country, Ezekiel Edwards, the director of the ACLUs criminal law reform project, says needlessly deploying Swat teams is part of a trend among nationwide police forces which increasingly [see] themselves as military tactical units. Fieger responded by saying he does not have the supposed video,[57] which he claims was made by the A&E Network reality show The First 48. Jarrette Jones and Iyanna McNeely. Aiyana Jones settlement On April 4, Attorney Geoffrey Fieger announced that the City of Detroit had agreed to an $8.2 million settlement in the 2010 slaughter of Aiyana Jones, 7, by another joint task force incuding Detroit Police Officer Joseph Weekley during a military-style assault on her grandmother Mertilla Jones' home. Home. [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. Both trials ended with hung juries. [12] At the time of the incident Aiyana Jones was asleep on the couch in front room of the downstairs apartment. Lil James brought along a .357 Magnumat the behest of Jones, Detective Williams testified, because Jones was afraid someone would try to steal his diamond Cartier glasses.. 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. For instance, in 2008 a man was shot in the head. Have him call me, and then hung up the phone. It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder. He also told me that perhaps 50 percent of Detroits drivers were operating without a license or insurance. She had already cleared a space on the other end of the mantel for Chaises urn. His retrial began in September 2014. Thats good news until you realize that in Detroit, some 500 fires are set every single month. 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. Mother Jones was founded as a nonprofit in 1976 because we knew corporations and billionaires wouldn't fund the type of hard-hitting journalism we set out to do. Weekley left the courtroom through a private door. [11], The jury claimed that race did not affect the decision of their verdict. In the end, Gibson was charged with Huffs murder and the attempted murders of four more officers. Lord Jesus, I ain't never seen nothing like that in my life."--Mertilla Jones, Aiyana's grandmother. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. Mayor Dave Bing spoke. Listen on Apple Podcasts. Until there wasnt. There was no note. Chief Evans might have survived it all, had he, too, not been drawn to the lights of Hollywood. On 16 May 2010, Aiyana was shot dead by Weekley in the middle of the night, as she slept on a sofa inside her home on the east side of Detroit. This is not about policing, he said. On his desk is a bronze bust of Geoffrey Fieger. Over 10 years ago, Detroit police executed a nighttime raid at a home on the city's east side in search of a murder suspect. . Louis Miriani, the last Republican mayor of Detroit, who served from 1957 to 1962, was sent to federal prison for tax evasion when he couldnt explain how he made nearly a quarter of a million dollars on a reported salary of only $25,000. 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 city filled with people from all over the world: Arabs, Appalachians, Poles, African Americans, all in their separate neighborhoods surrounding the factories. But she added: "I hope he does the right thing when he gets outand triesto help these other young Black males out here;tell them about lifeand tell them what he did.". He assigned the SWAT team the job of rounding up murder suspects, a task that had previously been done by detectives. One witness had him pegged for 13 years old. Go. He wore a gold bracelet as thick as a gymnasium rope. If he didn't give him the gun, they feel like their brother would still be alive, and Aiyana would still be alive.". Wage growth is slowing. But the SWAT team didnt wait. The settlement was finalized just days prior to the scheduled civil trial. [42] While Sanders was on the stand, Judge Cynthia Hathaway told her that she (Sanders) was being "disrespectful. The house on the other side is in much the same state. Evans brought a refreshing honesty to a department plagued by ineptitude and secrecy. Take for instance the death of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was shot and killed during a police raid at their Detroit home. Moreover, the Detroit public school system is the worst performer in the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests, with nearly 80 percent of eighth-graders unable to do basic math. The Rust Belt. The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. Officer Joseph Weekley, the lead commandowhod been featured before on another A&E show, Detroit SWATburst into the house. I cant heal properly because of it. Aiyana was buried in a white casket which was driven to her grave site by a horse-drawn carriage. Detroit VA hospital harmed patients, altered records, investigation reveals, $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. So what? Fieger barked. The programs six-minute sizzle reel begins with Evans dressed in full battle gear in front of the shattered Michigan Central Rail Depot, cradling a semiautomatic rifle and declaring that he would do whatever it takes to take back the streets of Detroit. Then, realizing that sounded implausible, they said shed brushed the gun as she ran past the door. The accident has led to outrage in Detroit, directed at police. Adam Rose/Netflix In addition to traveling, the Chicago-based pair is looking at a potential move once Iyanna, 27, heads back to school to get her master's degree. Barry, who said he had been gassed and maced and had guns pointed at him while attending demonstrations, including in Ferguson, Missouri, said the militarization of police was part of a long history and heritage of crackdown on communities of color in America, including the post-9/11 crackdown on Muslim and Arab communities. It was all for the cameras. The family of a 7-year-old who was fatally shot during a botched raid in 2010 is suing Detroit police, alleging officers lied about how she was killed as part of a cover-up. I want to get out of here, but I cant, she said. The man stopped, turned, and pulled a gun. The whole country knew it, and the whole country laughed. Soon, the Motor Citys population surpassed that of Boston and Baltimore, old East Coast port cities founded on maritime shipping when the world moved by boat. Mertilla Jones, 46, and her grandaughter, Aiyana Jones, 7, were asleep on a couch in their lower flat's front room at about 12:30 a.m. when police tossed an incendiary stun grenade through the window directly above the couch. They were looking for a murder suspect. Were going to pull people over for traffic violations and were going to take their cars if theyre not legal. 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. Even if you check the TT's of each city Aiyana is nowhere to . I can accept the shooting was a mistake, Jones said about his daughters death as a bleary-eyed Stanley sat motionless next to him. He didn't elaborate. Charlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, filmmaker, and multimedia reporter. [2], After the shot was fired, Weekley reported to his sergeant that a woman inside had grabbed for his gun. In Detroit, only 1 in 3 kids will graduate from high school. What the hell you doing up here for? 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. The appellatecourt ruledthe presiding judge in Jones'case hadn'tadequately answered jurors' questionsduring deliberations. There are two elementary schools in the area, both in desperate need of a lawnmower and a can of paint. IT MIGHT BE a stretch to see anything more than Detroits problems in Detroits problems. The author of "What Killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones" Charlie LeDuff begins with a brief overview of the surroundings in Detroit, where the homicide took place. As our Detroit reporter, she is helping us expand our coverage of the economy, politics, and culture in and around the city of Detroit. [2] Her death drew national media attention[3] and led U.S. Representative John Conyers to ask U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for a federal investigation into the incident. 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. Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones was asleep on the sofa when a police SWAT team hurled a flash-bang grenade into the apartment and smashed the front door down. The kids are dropping like flies and hes got nothing but useless words., CHECK OUT A SLIDESHOW OF ABANDONED HOUSES ON ONE BLOCK IN DETROIT, join us with a tax-deductible donation today. No Glue or Lace Hiring Black Folks. As officer Joseph Weekley walks free, another community is demanding answers about the increasing militarisation of law enforcement. [58] Michigan State Police Detective Tawana Powell testified during the 2014 trial that the investigation discovered that the video Fieger was talking about did not exist. The SWAT team tried the steel door to the building. Some 45,000 abandoned houses pock Detroit. Testifying at the New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church.Stand at the corner of Lillibridge Street and Mack Avenue and walk a mile in each direction from Alter Road to Gratiot Avenue (pronounced Gra-shit). WAS IT SO SIMPLE? 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. He failed to report. Aiyana's mother Dominika Stanley, and paternal grandmother Mertilla testified, and both had "emotional outbursts." . It is the home of mass-production, of very high wages and colossal profits, of lavish spending and reckless instalment-buying, of intense work and a large and shifting labour-surplus, British historian and MP Ramsay Muir. [9][10] JeReans crime? Police first floated the story that Aiyanas grandmother had grabbed Weekleys gun. Terms of Service apply. But the grandmother says she was lying on the far side of the couch, away from the door. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. There are no fewer than two TV dramas, two documentaries, and three reality programs being filmed here. A half-dozen masked officers of. Chauncey Owens, the uncle wanted on murder charges, was said to be going in and out of the house as normal and could have been apprehended during the day. [CHECK OUT A SLIDESHOW OF ABANDONED HOUSES ON ONE BLOCK IN DETROIT]I keep calling about these falling-down houses, but the city never comes, she said. Uncategorized. Was it death by TV? [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. 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 . Then JeRean was murdered. Owens didn't like the way the Southeastern High School teen had looked at him, according to court testimony. A small crowd of agitated black people was gathered on the sidewalk. The graduation rate for Detroit schoolkids hovers around 35 percent (PDF). In this shit, a one-year-old played next door, barefoot. The Detroit Free Press has more details here. Aiyana Joness funeral was held on May 22, 2010, at the Second Ebenezer BaptistChurch in Detroit where Alfred (Al) Charles Sharpton Jr. gave the eulogy. Somebody should have told company executives back in New York that they had wildly overpaid. But pollution didnt kill Detroit. According to reports, seconds after entering the house, Weekley fired the fatal shot. . Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, 7, died May 16, 2010 after being shot by an officer during a police raid in Detroit. [50][bettersourceneeded] The casket was white and was afterwards driven to the grave by horse-drawn carriage. 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. 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. If someone needs a scapegoat for what's happening here - and what's happening here is justice - then put it on me.". They were looking for a murder suspect. 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?. The mortician charged $700 for the most basic viewing casket, even though the body was to be cremated. Why would anyone move a gunshot victim, much less toss him in a car? Thats five times as many as New York, in a city one-tenth the size. AP Photo Charles Jones, the father of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was killed early Sunday in Detroit, holds a photo of Aiyana in attorney Geoffrey Fieger's office in Southfield, Mich., Tuesday . The frightened black man attempted to save himself. Chaises mother, Britta McNeal, 39, sat on the porch staring blankly into the distance, smoking no-brand cigarettes. 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