Cop Must Face Charges For Shooting Girl, 10
DETROIT -A judge has refused to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against a Detroit police officer in the fatal shooting of a young girl during a raid.
Aiyana Stanley-Jones, 7, was killed May 16, 2010, after officers searching for a murder suspect lobbed a flash grenade through a window and stormed into her family's first-floor flat. Police had said she was sleeping on the couch when she was shot in the head after officer Joseph Weekley's gun fired accidentally.
Source: ClickOnDetroit. Read full article. (link)
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Wow, the DOJ encourages filming of police, AND the family may get some justice for Aiyana Stanley-Jones. Good news day.
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I signed up for emails from DOJ's civil rights division and I must say they have been hammering some cops lately.