Death of Aiyana Jones Spurs Social Media Outrage
The Twitter trending topics included the usual suspects like Justin Bieber, Glee and a few unusuals like actress Stacey Dash and the movie Coach Carter. But something else was trending slowly with users expressing every emotion from outrage to sorrow to even gasps of horror. The tweets ended with a hashtag: #AiyanaJones. (Jerean Blake also has a Twitter hashtag. He’s the seventeen year old who was senselessly murdered. Detroit police found the suspect in a flat above the one Aiyana was murdered.)
In the thousands of tweets devoted to Aiyana Jones, the 7-year old slain by Detroit police on Sunday morning (May 16), a social media outrage brews. Avatars bear her photo and some even contain a pink ribbon to show support.
Veteran journalist Farai Chideya tweeted, “#AiyanaJones has a Wikipedia page. You can help expand it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiyana_Jones.” Fellow journalist Dream Hampton likewise tweeted, “Please listen to how Aiyana Jones’s grandmother was treated. My God. http://tinyurl.com/demnowaiyana #Aiyana.” Toure asked Dream, “Did you get to intv Aiyanna Jones’s family?” to which she replied, “@ToureX I did not. Lawyer got involved. Shut it down.”
On GlobalGrind.com, Kimora Lee Simmons wrote a blog post, “Damn Detroit Police! You Killed 7yr old Aiyana Jones!!” She says,
Damn Detroit Police Department! You burned, shot and killed Aiyana Jones, a little seven year old girl… How, in this age of unfettered technology, did you get this so wrong?!! It’s my sincere hope that the cameras for A&E’s “The First 48” television series that trailed you and filmed the whole incident didn’t spur your heroics! I know reality shows, very well indeed. Please tell me that this wasn’t a performance for the cameras!
Kimora and almost (as of this writing) 6,500 others “like” the Facebook fan page established in the memory of Aiyana titled “She Has a Name.” Requests for financial assistance for Aiyana’s family, information about her funeral (Al Sharpton is preaching the eulogy), photos of Aiyana and comments about the murder fill the wall.
And it’s a shame a little girl had to die to receive attention on such a grand stage as social media.
Category: Featured, social media | Tags: Aiyana Jones, Coach Carter, Detroit Police, Dream Hampton, facebook, Farai Chideya, Glee, GlobalGrind.com, Jerean Blake, Justin Bieber, Kimora Lee Simmons, Stacey Dash, twitter, Wikipedia
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the gun was shot before the Grandma reached (not for the gun ) for her granddaughter. The whole thing was caught on tape. That was the LIE OFFICER JOSEPH WEEKLEY told to cover up what he had done. Now if he did no wrong why did he lie. NOt once but twice the second time he said the Gun Just went off? He shot it from outside the window and the whole thing was caught on tape by the very cameras that Officer Joseph Weekley was showing off for. Guns don't just go off because you grab them. That shows you the depth of this lying bastards slimy heart. He not only killed this little girl but he was willing to point the finger at her grandmother. Hoping the grandmother would be under scrutiny for aiding in the murder of her own granddaughter. How would this woman's life be if she had to live with something like that? Thank god for cameras that showed the truth this slimy bastard should burn in hell.
It's been so crazy out here lately. With the killing of Jerean, 17, Avondre, 15 year old honor student gunned down right down the block from his house and Aiyana, 7. Just this morning the son of a Detroit Police Department officer was gunned down at a gas station with an AK-47 who was 29 years old.
The mayor said the city can't do anything to stem all of this going on. The citizens are going to have to step in to make a real change come about which is true. Detroit is already a joke around the world in regards to the public education system, ridiculously high unemployment, Kwame (don't even get me started on him), potential closing of 30+ schools, etc.
There are pockets of people here and there really trying hard to change things in the city. But with the problems so large and widespread it's going to take the entire city and suburbs to really get things moving in a new direction. We can't just keep going down the same path to destruction like this is the way things have always been and will always be.