by Fige Bornu
As many of you know, I have been on a constant and consistent yell demanding that those responsible for the death of 7-year old Aiyana Jones be brought to stand for their crimes. I have composed numerous blog posts, wrote letters to government officials, made phone calls, and begged for funds for the recent one-year anniversary of Aiyana's death where we hired a plane to pull a banner that read "Justice for Aiyana Jones." In addition, I have done many television, radio and print interviews as chief of the Justice for Aiyana Jones Committee where I questioned the silence in the over a year-long "investigation" into Aiyana's death by the hands of the Detroit Police Special Response Swat. Even more, I have asked Detroit and federal elected officials to join us in trying to get a resolve to what may have caused Aiyana to leave us too soon. Still, no one or entity has been charged with her death.
What I and others have surmised is that there is a cover-up that dares to hide, and ultimately forever silence the variables that created Aiyana's death and her death scene. To recant, the Detroit Police conducted a surprise raid on the house where Aiyana was asleep claiming they were looking for a murder suspect. This suspect, as it turned out, lived in the upper flat, not the lower flat where Aiyana and her family lived. To double this fiasco, this raid was pre-planned and was being filmed by a cartel of video, sound and technical professionals from the Walt Disney Company owned, A & E Channel produced, "Next 48 Hours." It is said that the Detroit Police first, threw a flash grenade into the window, busted down the door, and somehow discharged a bullet into the skull of little Aiyana Jones. How could this happen? Why did this happen? Did the police trip over themselves? What? Well, the local prosecutor, Kym Worthy, is bent on saying that she will not be rushed in her over 14-month investigation.
Today, I called into a radio program on Detroit's WCHB, where a group called Detroit 300 was asking for men (not sissies as the group's president said) to gather near the neighborhood where a 70-year old woman was beaten up when she opened the front door of the apartment where she lived (there is video footage that shows the assault on her). The problem I have with this group, Detroit 300, is that they "chase ambulances." They come alive when a tragedy happens. They bang on people's doors asking for information about a wanted suspect. They move in groups with flashlights in hand. Their suspect, always a Black man, is haunted until they are caught or can't be caught. This group performs these acts as the Detroit Police guard them. This group brags that they are in the street to help the Detroit Police find wanted suspects. Anyway, I called-in to express to this group's leader that while I am deeply outraged at what happened to this elderly woman, but wondered what makes one tragedy more important than the other. I told him that such haunts of Black men was similar to what enslaved Africans endured while being chased by the KKK back in the day. I asked him why his group was not gathering to get justice for Aiyana Jones.
To this, I was called an array of names. And ALL of the follow-up callers dismissed me as a sicko, a government agent, etc. One caller even said that I should be found and investigated as a possible suspect in the beating of this elderly woman. The wrath thrown against me from the callers, the program host, and the group leader was so bitter, so vile, and energized that I felt like I would be eaten alive in any moment.
Admittedly, maybe calling the work of the Detroit 300 akin to the haunting of enslaved Africans by the KKK crossed the line. But, the response to this coupled with my call for justice for Aiyana Jones, is very telling.
For some deep and secret reason, the case of Aiyana Jones is being quashed. And those who dare mettle with it may find themselves on the wrong side of some entity, some person or persons.
What has happened? Where is our community headed?
As many of you know, I have been on a constant and consistent yell demanding that those responsible for the death of 7-year old Aiyana Jones be brought to stand for their crimes. I have composed numerous blog posts, wrote letters to government officials, made phone calls, and begged for funds for the recent one-year anniversary of Aiyana's death where we hired a plane to pull a banner that read "Justice for Aiyana Jones." In addition, I have done many television, radio and print interviews as chief of the Justice for Aiyana Jones Committee where I questioned the silence in the over a year-long "investigation" into Aiyana's death by the hands of the Detroit Police Special Response Swat. Even more, I have asked Detroit and federal elected officials to join us in trying to get a resolve to what may have caused Aiyana to leave us too soon. Still, no one or entity has been charged with her death.
What I and others have surmised is that there is a cover-up that dares to hide, and ultimately forever silence the variables that created Aiyana's death and her death scene. To recant, the Detroit Police conducted a surprise raid on the house where Aiyana was asleep claiming they were looking for a murder suspect. This suspect, as it turned out, lived in the upper flat, not the lower flat where Aiyana and her family lived. To double this fiasco, this raid was pre-planned and was being filmed by a cartel of video, sound and technical professionals from the Walt Disney Company owned, A & E Channel produced, "Next 48 Hours." It is said that the Detroit Police first, threw a flash grenade into the window, busted down the door, and somehow discharged a bullet into the skull of little Aiyana Jones. How could this happen? Why did this happen? Did the police trip over themselves? What? Well, the local prosecutor, Kym Worthy, is bent on saying that she will not be rushed in her over 14-month investigation.
Today, I called into a radio program on Detroit's WCHB, where a group called Detroit 300 was asking for men (not sissies as the group's president said) to gather near the neighborhood where a 70-year old woman was beaten up when she opened the front door of the apartment where she lived (there is video footage that shows the assault on her). The problem I have with this group, Detroit 300, is that they "chase ambulances." They come alive when a tragedy happens. They bang on people's doors asking for information about a wanted suspect. They move in groups with flashlights in hand. Their suspect, always a Black man, is haunted until they are caught or can't be caught. This group performs these acts as the Detroit Police guard them. This group brags that they are in the street to help the Detroit Police find wanted suspects. Anyway, I called-in to express to this group's leader that while I am deeply outraged at what happened to this elderly woman, but wondered what makes one tragedy more important than the other. I told him that such haunts of Black men was similar to what enslaved Africans endured while being chased by the KKK back in the day. I asked him why his group was not gathering to get justice for Aiyana Jones.
To this, I was called an array of names. And ALL of the follow-up callers dismissed me as a sicko, a government agent, etc. One caller even said that I should be found and investigated as a possible suspect in the beating of this elderly woman. The wrath thrown against me from the callers, the program host, and the group leader was so bitter, so vile, and energized that I felt like I would be eaten alive in any moment.
Admittedly, maybe calling the work of the Detroit 300 akin to the haunting of enslaved Africans by the KKK crossed the line. But, the response to this coupled with my call for justice for Aiyana Jones, is very telling.
For some deep and secret reason, the case of Aiyana Jones is being quashed. And those who dare mettle with it may find themselves on the wrong side of some entity, some person or persons.
What has happened? Where is our community headed?
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