The Rev. [5] Outside court, a spokesman for Aiyana's family criticized the judge for her comments. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. Grover 08:10, 10 June 2014 (UTC) Reply . 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.. He won't be in the field. Go ahead, walk in the Detroit River and disappear. But I cant. His weapon fired a single shot, the bullet striking Aiyana in the head and exiting her neck. Much of the firefighters equipment was substandard: Their boots had holes; they were alerted to fires by fax from the central office. [2], After the shot was fired, Weekley reported to his sergeant that a woman inside had grabbed for his gun. Even in Detroit, a predominantly black city. But Geoffrey Fieger calls it police arrogance. Lyvonne Cargill wears a shirt that honors her son, JeRean Blake Nobles. Police caught him again in November 2009 in possession of a handgun stolen from an Ohio cop. [37], Weekley's retrial started in September 2014. So there should have been a parade with confetti and tanks of lemonade, but instead, the complaints about overaggressive cops began to roll in. A bunch of lazy, uneducated blue-collar incompetents. But defense attorney Steve Fishman says Jones has no credibility because she's told different stories about what happened. 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. Murder suspect Chauncey Louis Owens, the target of the raid, will be charged. The SWAT team tried the steel door to the building. Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. [12], According to press reports, police were on the scene by 12:40a.m. on Sunday, May 16, 2010. The Jones family also sued Weekley and the Detroit Police Department in 2015. An investigation was promised. Do you got a problem or something? Aiyana was buried in a white casket which was driven to her grave site by a horse-drawn carriage. It was all for the cameras. Plus, grenades are rarely used when rounding up suspects, even murder suspects. IT MIGHT BE a stretch to see anything more than Detroits problems in Detroits problems. Hes from New York. The settlement was finalized just days prior to the scheduled civil trial. Im alive. The sad and confusing circumstances of the murders of JeRean Blake and Officer Huff, both black, robbed Sharpton of some of his customary indignation. It was a white cop who killed the girl, but Detroit is Americas largest black city with a black mayor and a black chief of police. WHat actually happened to this little girl? In Detroit, a new car costs more than the average house. Im stuck. [32][33] Allison Howard was sentenced to two years of probation in July 2013, and fined $2,000. Gibson is a tall, thick-necked man who, like the character Omar from The Wire, made his living robbing dope houses. War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing. I get no sleep. . 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. But if it wasnt for them, the city population would have sunk further than it did. The psychopathology of growing up in Detroit, he said. Fieger alleged a police cover-up. A wary Detroit police officer keeps watch over an unruly crowd after an arrest on the East Side.The judge, Cynthia Gray Hathaway, set his bond at $20,000only 10 percent of which was due upfrontand adjourned the trial without explanation, according to the docket. Go. He wore a gold bracelet as thick as a gymnasium rope. As Officer Weekley wept on the sidewalk, Aiyana was rushed to the trauma table, where she was pronounced dead. The city of Detroit has settled a lawsuit with the family of a girl shot and killed by a Detroit police officer nine years ago. McNeal wondered how she was going to pay the $3,000 for her sons funeral. [42] While Sanders was on the stand, Judge Cynthia Hathaway told her that she (Sanders) was being "disrespectful. They were looking for a murder suspect. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. A half-dozen masked officers of. Jones broke down during testimony and had to be escorted out amid sobbing after addressing Weekley who was also in the courtroom directly. Evans told me then that major crimes were routinely underreported by 20 percent. [38] Weekley, 38, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death, a misdemeanor in the death of Aiyana. Sanders was Aiyana Jones's paternal aunt, the girlfriend of Chauncey Owens, and the daughter of Mertilla Jones. No Glue or Lace Hiring Black Folks. [6][7][8] On October 10, the judge declared a mistrial due to jury deadlock. Jones wasgiven a "contingency parole" after completing required prison programs, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz said Monday. They still owe me rent, he said with a face about the Joneses. Police fired a flash grenade through the front window. Of course I would. 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. I called the fire department to ask for its statistics. Even if you check the TT's of each city Aiyana is nowhere to . Forget what you saw, little man. This is not about policing, he said. Maybe because the cameras were rolling, maybe because a Detroit police officer had been murdered two weeks earlier while trying to apprehend a 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. He computerized daily crime statistics, created a mobile strike force commanded by young and educated go-getters, and dispatched cops to crime hot spots. While other American metropolises have gotten control of their murder rate, Detroits remains where it was during the crack epidemic. "(Jones') parole guideline score placed him in the high probability of parole range," Gautz said in an email. Look at the Trending Topics on Twitter. Was Aiyana's legal last name "Jones", "Stanley Jones", or "Stanley-Jones"? 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. Bagpipes played and the rain fell. Outside, Television was watching them. Dr. Death. The hospital was six miles away. [23] At Weekley's retrial in 2014, it was disclosed that Mertilla's fingerprints were not found on Weekley's gun. Sherrors mom, in white, lost another son to a bullet the previous year. Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she slept on a couch in a Detroit home in 2010. And during our conversation, he referred to himself in the third personGeoffrey Fieger. Detroit, MI The family of Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a 7-year old girl shot and killed by a Detroit police officer, has received an $8.25 million settlement almost 9 years after the tragic incident. A minute later, a friend took the two dollars as a keepsake. Police arrested Mertilla, administered tests for drugs and gunpowder, and released her Sunday morning. [12] Owens was in the upstairs apartment. Thats five times as many as New York, in a city one-tenth the size. Weekley, who retired from the police department in 2019,claimed Mertilla Jones grabbed his rifle, causing it to discharge. DETROIT - At the prosecutor's request, a judge on Friday dismissed the last charge against a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a 7-year-old girl during a raid. The change to "Murder of Aiyana Jones" may have been disputed for good reason, but the current one is both neutral and standard (see Death of Ian Tomlinson). 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. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. 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. [51] She was buried on the grounds. Officers deployeda "flash bang" grenadeand kicked in the front door, and raid team leader Joseph Weekley led the crewinto the house. But the grandmother says she was lying on the far side of the couch, away from the door. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? As for the struggles of a generation of living people, the murder of a hundred children, they ask me: Whats new in that?. According to the police, Officer Joseph Weekley was the first police officer to enter the home. A thousand people attended, as did the predictable plump of media. She refused to let me see the original paper file, despite the fact that it is a public record, and has said that she cant comment on the case because she might preside in the trial against Gibson. The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. In October, judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed a charge of involuntary manslaughter, citing a lack of evidence. Outside, a reality television crew filmed the events for A&E. I went to visit Cargill, who lived just around the way. What the fuck you looking at?. Owens didn't like the way the Southeastern High School teen had looked at him, according to court testimony. No weapons were found on ANY person in the house after the raid, including Charles Jones and Aiyana's mother Dominika, Aiyana and her two toddler brothers, Mertilla Jones and her sister, and two adult cousins of Charles. Im not representing the father; Im speaking for the daughter. He also pointed out that while Jones remains a person of interest in JeReans murder, he has not been arrested. The family of a 7-year-old girl who was fatally shot during a May 2010 police raid is suing the Detroit officer involved in the incident, Detroit News reports.. We hope this resolution will provide everyone involved a measure of closure," Detroit Corporation Counsel Lawrence Garcia said in a statement, according to the Detroit News. / AP. But the fact is Detroit and its suburbs were dying 40 years ago. He admitted in his first trial that, "It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl. As a reporter at the Detroit News, I get plenty of phone calls from people in the neighborhoods. That is, until someone realized that the schools are controlled by rival gangs. The landlord of the duplex, Edward Taylor, let me into the Jones apartment. 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. But it was dark. Detroit Charles Jones,whose role in ahigh school student's 2010 slayinghelped spark thepolice raid that ended with the officer-involved shooting death of his 7-year-old daughter Aiyana Stanley-Jones, has been granted parole. Were taking whats left.. 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. She denied grabbing the weapon. I am sick. After the finale aired, we didn't know whether they're still together or not until the reunion on March 4, but a little social media sleuthing told us they were still . [34][35], Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. Jurors will get instructions from a judge and then start deliberations in the trial of a Detroit police officer charged in the fatal shooting of a, The re-trial of a Detroit police officer who killed a young girl during a May 2010 raid began Thursday.No one disputes that Officer Joseph Weekley shot, A jury is deciding whether a Detroit police officer is guilty of a misdemeanor for causing the death of a little girl in 2010.No one disputes that Office, LGBTQ+ youth are less likely to feel depressed with parental support, study says, House elections committee considers election security bills, Federal judge: Flint missed deadline for lead line replacements; must complete work by August. It was 12:40 am on Sunday, May 16, 2010. Detroit has since made little progress on the federal consent decree. Sherrors was killed by a stray bullet while cutting a friends hair on a front porch just 27 days after JeRean died. Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. I would have waited until the morning when the guy went to the liquor store to buy a quart of milk. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. First, it was six cops who responded to the 911 call. School wasnt a priority. I saw him in the face of my sisters daughter, who died from a heroin overdose in a suburban basement near the interstate, weeks after I moved back to Michigan with my wife to raise our daughter and take a job with the Detroit News. Fiegers suburban office is a shrine to Geoffrey Fieger. A half-dozen masked officers of the Special Response TeamDetroits version of SWATwere at the door, guns drawn. The individual being sought at the multi-family dwelling was a suspect in a murder that took place at about 3:00 p.m. the previous Friday. Seconds after Aiyana's blanket caught fire, the SWAT team stormed through the door, and mistakenly shot Aiyana through the neck, killing her. I saw the tape and wrote about its existence after the killing of Aiyana, but the story went nowhere until two months later, when someone in City Hall leaked a copy to the local ABC affiliate. There was no note. Bobb did uncover graft and fraud and waste, however. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter and "negligent firing of a weapon causing death". That's it. 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. Nor is corruption a black or liberal thing. When I called the head of the homicide bureau and explained the situation, he told me, Oh yeah? 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. Casei Jones, 32, and her four children Cameron Bowers, 10, Preston Bowers, 5, Mercalli Jones, 2, and Aiyana Jones, 1, were missing for almost a month. The accident has led to outrage in Detroit, directed at police. In Los Angeles, by comparison, the unsolved-murder rate is 22 percent. He was formerly a reporter for The Detroit News. Weekley was transferred from the Special Response Team to the Criminal Investigations Bureau. A total, unfortunate fuck-up.. 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, Geoffrey Fieger said. 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. Parts of the Detroit River are now clean enough for swimming. As for the videotape of the killing, Geoffrey Fieger said he did not have it. The crime most likely happened at the . Seconds after entering the house, where the grenade had caused Aiyanas blanket to catch fire, Weekley fired one fatal shot. 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. In an attempt to distract the occupants, police fired a flash grenade through the front window of the lower apartment, where Aiyana Jones was sleeping. "He has completed various programming and is active in vocational training. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley in court in Detroit, Mich. on June 18, 2013 during his first trial. The Rust Belt. Weekley was the first officer to enter the home, seconds after a flashbang grenade a war device created by the British SAS in the 1960s to disorient with a blinding flash and a temporarily deafening noise was lobbed into it. [CLICK HERE FOR CHARLIE LEDUFFS EXPOSE ON THE DETROIT AMBULANCE SYSTEM. May 16, 2010, 7-year-old Aiyana was asleep on her couch, wrapped in her Hannah Montana blanket. I need help. ", The mother of Jones' victim, Lyvonne Cargill, said: "I'm stressed thinking about that man coming home." "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. Owens switched his moped for a Chevy Blazer. Weekley will not go to a third trial. It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder suspect after throwing a flash grenade to confuse anyone inside. Evans drivera copgave chase. They made it to the trauma ward, where JeRean was pronounced dead. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket.. Can she be blamed for that? They went hog wild. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? 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. Thats good news until you realize that in Detroit, some 500 fires are set every single month. Huff entered with his gun still holstered. 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.. Then eight, then eleven. Killing of Aiyana Jones. 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. The city grew to 1.3 million people from 300,000 after Ford opened his Model T factory. I dont want no apology from no police. 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.. The title is derived from the California penal code for murder: 187. Stanley suddenly emerged from her stupor: Whats that got to do with it? she hissed. He said. 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. The service was held at Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit, a drab cake-shaped megachurch near the Chrysler Freeway. "(Jones is) the one who gave (Owens) the gun to kill their brother. David Corn, Noah Lanard, and Dan Friedman. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. . But there is no money; the struggling school system has a $363 million deficit. 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. In this shit, a one-year-old played next door, barefoot. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. The environment didnt affect us none, Jones said. 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. Blame the Federal Reserve. The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. Its now just another abandoned house in Detroit.. For Aiyana, it's the irony of the portrait circulating the Web: The smiling 7-year-old in her freshest plaits and multicolored barrettes, literally surrounded by a trifecta of white Disney princesses-blonde Cinderella, brunette Snow White and redhead Ariel, the Little Mermaid. The whole country knew it, and the whole country laughed. [50][bettersourceneeded] The casket was white and was afterwards driven to the grave by horse-drawn carriage. He caught a lunch lady stealing the childrens milk money. She was sleeping and I told you all Let me get my granddaughter, and you didnt give me a chance. AIYANA WAS LAID TO REST six days after her killing. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Listen on Apple Podcasts. I left McNeals porch and started my car. Once at Aiyanas graveside, Charles Jones released a dove. She thanked me for coming and showed me her home, which was clean and well kept. 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. The police were searching for a murder suspect thought to be in the Jones home. 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. The man stopped, turned, and pulled a gun. The entire botched nighttime raid was captured on camera by crews from the A&E show The First 48. Then came the homicide-by-cop of little Aiyana. 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. 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 floor above Jones' on May 16, 2010. 3) Weekley's claims that Mertilla Jones grabbed . 1:46 Detroit After nearly five years, the officer who accidentally killed 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones during a raid being filmed by a TV camera crew has been restored to active duty as a. The flower shop is just a pile of bricks now, but despite what the Arab told me, I did not forget what I saw. A former risk manager for the district was indicted for siphoning off $3 million for personal use. Word of the free milk and honey made its way down South, and the poor Negros and hillbillies flooded in. But he doesnt return my calls. FEMAIL reveals what has happened to . Families of people killed by police officers and activists gathered at the feet of the Spirit of Detroit statue in front of the Coleman A. 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 . By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. In Chief Evans defense, he seemed to understand one thing: After the collapse of the car industry and the implosion of the real estate bubble, there is little else Detroit has to export except its misery. Your donation is fully tax-deductible. [24] Geoffrey Fieger, the family's lawyer, said the police fired the shot that struck Aiyana from outside the home, possibly through the open front door. 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. I went to see Fieger to ask him to show me the tape. She got pregnant at 15. My daughter got love, honor, and respect. Later that day, Detroit Police identified Chauncey Owens as a suspect in the shooting and a warrant was issued for his arrest. I mean, hiring the Rosa Parks carriage?, I dont owe Sheffield shit, says Jones. Then she introduced me to her 14-year-old son DeErion, whose remains sat in an urn on the mantel. Weekleys trial began in June 2013 and ended in a mistrial when a jury failed to reach a verdict. In 2007, he attacked a cop and tried to take his gun. Chaises mother, Britta McNeal, 39, sat on the porch staring blankly into the distance, smoking no-brand cigarettes. His body was transferred to Dr. Schmidt and the Wayne County morgue. Aiyana Jones was killed nine years ago during a police raid gone wrong and no convictions were made. And America is buying. On the morning of May 16, a Detroit police officer fatally shot 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones in the throat during a police raid on her home. The Detroit chapter of the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) and Black Lives Matter Detroit organized the rally on what would have been her 14th birthday. BlackPast.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and our EIN is 26-1625373. . I think its evil. I stared through the windshield at the little boy in the diaper playing amid the ruins, reached over, and switched it off. So bad is it for Detroits children that Education Secretary Arne Duncan said last year, I lose sleep over that one.. Detroit demolishes only 500 homes a year, thanks to concerns over lawsuits and environmental hazards, as well as lack of funds and ineptitude. AS SUMMER DRAGGED on, the story of Aiyana faded from even the regional press. [54][55], Attorney Fieger claimed that footage, from an undisclosed source, showed that the lethal bullet came from outside the home, rather than inside, as police said. I know society looks at a person like me and wants me to go away, she said. But the people of Lillibridge Street still look like theyve been picked up by their hair and dropped from the rooftop. She's irresponsible," said Ron Scott, referring to Hathaway's decision to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter charge before a jury at the second trial could consider it. A dollhouse sits in an empty lot not far from where Aiyana was shot by the police officers storming her home.It was a total fuck-up, the official said. A good kid with average grades, JeRean went to Southeastern High, which is situated in an industrial belt of moldering Chrysler assembly plants. By the end of the following day, police had identified Chauncey Owens as a suspect in Blake's death and obtained a warrant to search 4054 Lillibridge[12] St, where Owens was believed to be hiding. As Detroit led the nation in median income and homeownership, automation and foreign competition were forcing companies like Packard to shutter their doors. He failed to report. On May 14, 2010, Jones handed a .357 magnum pistol to his friend Chauncey Owens, who gunned down Cargill's son, 17-year-old Je'Rean Blake, outside the Motor City Marketplace on Mack at St. Jean on Detroit's east side. One question that lurked behind the scenes of the Aiyana Jones trial was whether the fact that producers from A&E's 'The First 48' played any role in what happened the night Aiyana died. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was sleeping in her home on the east side of Detroit on the night of May 16, 2010, when officers barged into the house. Officer Joseph Weekley, the lead commandowhod been featured before on another A&E show, Detroit SWATburst into the house. In the case of the night Aiyana was killed, many feel the situation did not call for a military-style bust at midnight. "Aiyana's death was a tragic loss for her family and has been a heavy burden on our community. If that isnt a record for any major metropolis, it is certainly a record for Detroit. The bullet struck Aiyana killing her. Then Evans own driver shot a man last October. [9][10] I saw him in the face of my sister, who died a violent death in a filthy section of Detroit a decade ago. Was it death by TV? Jones and two other men known as Lil James and Dirt rode along for JeReans ass-whipping. The bullet hit a child. You will count 34 churches, a dozen liquor stores, six beauty salons and barber shops, a funeral parlor, a sprawling Chrysler engine and assembly complex working at less than half-capacity, and three dollar storesbut no grocery stores. So Dr. Schmidt keeps them on layaway, zipped up in body bags as family members wait for a ship to come in that never seems to arrive. [15], The building was a duplex; Owens's girlfriend LaKrysta Sanders lived in the upstairs apartment, while her mother and Aiyana Jones' grandmother, Mertilla Jones, lived in the downstairs apartment. The silent suffering.. 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. Tens of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands. I get no sleep. On April 4, 2019, Aiyanas family settled with Detroit for $8.25 million. By 1958, 20 percent of the Detroit workforce was jobless. The Packard plant, where we came across this fashion shoot, has been smoldering for decades.In any case, Detroit began its long precipitous decline during the 1950s, precisely when the cityand the United Stateswas at its peak. 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