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Lawsuits filed in Aiyana Jones death during Detroit police raid

A lawyer for the family of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, the little girl who was fatally shot by police in Detroit during a raid, has filed two lawsuits related incident.

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A lawyer for the family of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, the little girl who was fatally shot by police in Detroit during a raid, has filed two lawsuits related incident.

Aiyana Jones lawsuit

Attorney Geoffrey Fieger filed federal and state lawsuits claiming police violated Aiyana Jones constitutional rights. The federal suit seeks an unspecified cash award of more than $75,000. A four-count suit filed in state court seeks damages in excess of $25,000.

Fieger says Detroit police had no legitimate reason to throw a flash grenade into the home of Jones early Sunday. He says she was burned by the explosive and struck by a police bullet shot from outside the home.

Police claim the girl was shot by an officer’s gun that mistakenly discharged inside the house after they arrived to arrest a murder suspect.

Video of the incident

A camera crew from the reality show The First 48, that were tagging along with officers, may have footage from events leading up to the shooting and the raid.

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What’s on the video could potentially  reveal whether Aiyana was fatally shot by an officer whose gun mistakenly discharged inside the house, as police say, or if claims of a “cover up” by Fieger are true.

Fieger said he has seen video of the incident and that the police account was full of “utter fabrications.”

He said a video shows an officer lobbing the grenade and then shooting into the home from the porch. He would not say if the footage he saw was from the A&E crew.

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“There is no question about what happened because it’s in the videotape,” Fieger said Monday. “It’s not an accident. It’s not a mistake. There was no altercation.”


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  1. noskrid

    May 23, 2010 at 7:49 pm

    Why won't ANYONE talk about this child's so-called father hiding the criminal? None of this would have jumped off if he had not tried to hide the killer.

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