BY MARK W. SMITH
FREE PRESS WEB EDITOR
Fashion magnate Kimora Lee Simmons has strong words for the Detroit Police Department in a blog post this morning about the shooting death of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones.
"Damn Detroit Police Department! You burned, shot and killed Aiyana Jones, a little seven year old girl," Simmons wrote on globalgrind.com, a urban culture Web site backed by her ex-husband Russell Simmons.
Aiyana was shot and killed early Sunday on the city's east side as officers stormed a duplex on Lillibridge in search of a homicide suspect.
After police launched a flash-bang grenade device through the window near where Aiyana was sleeping on a couch, a bullet from Officer Joseph Weekley's gun allegedly struck Aiyana in the neck, the Free Press reported today.
"As the family has said, and I agree, the officer who shot Aiyana is not a 'monster.' I do not believe that his actions were intentional, but the slapdash techniques with which these kinds of raids are executed concerns me."
Simmons continues to say that excessive police force has created a conflict in communities.
"We treat our very own citizens as if they are on the other side," she writes. "We have lost the connection we once had with our police force.
"We are afraid of them and they are afraid of us!"
Globalgrind.com has also created a Facebook page to remember Aiyana.
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