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Christopher C. Cooper Dr.

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2010

Aiyana Jones

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A Detroit Policeman With A Documented History Of Pointing Guns At Children, Shoots & Kills 7 Year-Old Aiyana Jones, But Not After A Fellow Officer Sets The Tiny Girl Ablaze With A Grenade. This Could Happen Again. Copyright © May 20, 2010, Christopher C. Cooper May 2010

A Detroit Policeman With A Documented History Of Pointing Guns At Children, Shoots & Kills 7 Year-Old Aiyana Jones, But Not After A Fellow Officer Sets The Tiny Girl Ablaze With A Grenade. This Could Happen Again. Copyright © May 20, 2010, Christopher C. Cooper

Christopher C. Cooper Dr.

Is it every parent’s nightmare that the police will throw a grenade through the living room window striking their 7 year-old and then fire a bullet into the child’s forehead? Or is it, ONLY, some parents’ nightmare? I am willing to bet that there are communities in America in which the police would never throw a grenade into a home in which the officers have been told ad nauseum that there are children inside. If little Aiyana Jones was not 7 but 17, I would not have written this article because I would not have learned of her death nor …