... she was alive yesterday, 7 years old. she went to bed on a couch in a first floor room with her grandmother last night. The early in morning, they raided her house. A man outside the house shouted that there were kids inside. But, a man on the second floor of the house was the one they were after. They threw a "flash bang" through the front window. It blinded everyone inside and it lit the girl on fire. Then the young girl was shot, by accident, though the stories differ...
This sounds like a war zone, but it is happening in America.
The presence of a reality TV show crew makes the whole thing more suspect. Was this child shot due to police incompetence and the careless way they so often quickly, and recklessly, resort to violence especially when in low-income, minority neighborhoods?
Were the cops emboldened by the prospect of being reality TV heroes, bravely walking the "perps" to the car in cuffs... Rounding up the "bad boys" on television for "America's" amusement? Hurling smoke bombs through windows to "smoke 'em out"?
Will, media find this child cute enough ... "all American" enough... to get this story the attention it deserves? Or will most of the coverage spend time splitting hairs about why this is somehow her families fault for one BS reason or another?
The answers will come in time... but nothing will bring Aiyana back. She was just a child and she was shot in her own home by the very people who were supposed to be protecting her. This did not have to happen. This could have been avoided-- if we have sense sense of responsibility someone will be held accountable.
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The story is developing:
- Video evidence shows that the police fired shots into the house before they even entered. Before they knew the suspect was inside. Neighbors told the cops there was a child inside the house, showing them the toys in the front yard.
- The police made the people in the house kneel, including the father in his daughter's own blood.
- They were in the wrong apartment.
- That the grandmother may not have "scuffle" with the police officer but may have accidentally collided with him as she was running to see who throwing a flash grenade into her house.