( CNN ) -- Calling law enforcement accounts `` absurd , '' a Michigan attorney sued police Tuesday in the death of 7-year-old girl killed during a raid in Detroit . Attorney Geoffrey Fieger said members of the Detroit Police Special Response Team acted out of line when they conducted a raid on the family home of Aiyana Jones , who was severely burned and then killed by an officer 's bullet . She died Sunday . `` This type of activity by a police force is unacceptable in America , '' Fieger said at a news conference in his office . `` What is equally unacceptable is the cover-up that has occurred . '' Fieger filed both state and federal lawsuits alleging gross negligence , a violation of civil rights and a conspiracy to cover up the violation of civil rights . Detroit Assistant Police Chief Ralph Godbee has said that preliminary information indicated that officers approached the house with a search warrant for the girl 's uncle in connection with the shooting of a high school student Friday . Godbee said the officer 's gun discharged accidentally inside the home after an altercation and physical contact with the girl 's grandmother , Mertilla Jones . Jones denied such an altercation Tuesday . Fieger said he plans to file another lawsuit for false arrest and accused the police of covering up their own mistakes by blaming the family . Fieger said videotape of the incident shows that the shooting was not accidental . In an interview Monday , he told CNN affiliate WDIV that a crew was filming the raid for the A & E network 's show , `` The First 48 . '' The program documents police investigations in the first 48 hours after a homicide . Tuesday , Fieger recounted the events shown on the video that he said led to the girl 's death . At times , he had to pause , his voice drowned out by sobbing family members . Fieger said officers tossed a smoke bomb -- described by police as a `` flash bang device '' to distract occupants -- into the house , severely burning Aiyana , who was on the couch in the front room with her grandmother . She was then struck in the neck by a bullet fired from outside the house , he said . Godbee has said he does n't know how Fieger saw the video , according to WDIV . `` If Mr. Fieger has access to anything that would be evidence in this case , he should , as an officer of the court , get it immediately to the Michigan State Police , which will be investigating , '' he said in a statement . Fieger said the police and the city owe apologies to the family , especially to Mertilla Jones for trying to blame her for her granddaughter 's death . He said officers need to be held to account just as anyone else would . `` The people of the city of Detroit have got to believe the police will protect them , and not kill them , '' Fieger said . `` This is an opportunity to come together , not to tear us apart , '' he said . `` Apologize now and we can start the road to healing . ''
NEW : Attorney recounts events leading to girl 's death that he said were caught on video . NEW : Geoffry Fieger says girl was burned by flash device before being struck by bullet . Comment: Fieger calls police accounts of the raid `` absurd , '' claims cover-up . The suits claim gross negligence and conspiracy to cover up a civil rights violation .