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Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Initially Al Sharpton offered to speak at the service but stepped down after a dispute within the family. Liang made a point of personally attending rallies and introducing herself to gain trust with the Gurley camp. Many hailed the . Liang has already tried once to get his conviction thrown out, which was denied. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. There was no happiness in him today," Liang's attorney Paul Shechtman told ABC News. A jury convicted Liang in February of second-degree manslaughter and official misconduct for accidentally firing a shot while, with his gun drawn, he began a vertical patrol with his partner on the eighth floor of a darkened stairwell at the Louis H. Pink Houses. Brooklyn district attorney Kenneth Thompson said justice will be served if the now-former officer serves probation. See Charlie Korsmo Now At 44. Police brutality is wrong its unconscionable but I also knew that to selectively prosecute a single Asian American cop would neither make up for ten years of injustice nor advance justice in the years ahead. [39][40] Gurley is interred at Rosedale Memorial Park in Linden, New Jersey. "Each officer handles that differently and needs different amounts of training and coaching.". [15] Patrick Lynch, head of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York, characterizes them as "among the most dangerous projects in the city" with dimly lit stairwells presenting a particular danger. During the trial, Liang and his partner said they did not really learn CPR in the academy even though they were certified. Liang was sentenced to 800 hours of community . On February 12, 2016, Gurley's family demanded the NYPD permanently end all vertical patrols. Liang emigrated to the United States as a child to Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, with his parents and grandmother; he also has a younger brother in college. Following that hunch became Liang's second documentary, " Down a Dark Stairwell .". 'I just turned, and the gun went off,' Liang said, explaining that his body 'tensed up'. Ballingers wrongful death suit accused NYCHA of failing to maintain the stairwell and lighting at the Pink Houses, which it oversees. Days after former New York Police Department (NYPD) Officer Peter Liang fatally shot Akai Gurley, an unarmed black man, in a Brooklyn housing project in November 2014, Cathy Dang headed to East New York to meet with people organizing on behalf of Gurley's family. A new film based on a 2014 case involving an Asian American police officer who fatally shot an innocent African American man while patrolling New York City is currently in post-production. 'Scapegoated?' The police killing that left Asian Americans angry - and Brooklyn D.A. Recommends No Prison Time for Former NYPD Officer Liang [59] However, he was fired from the NYPD the day after his partner was convicted. Reporting from New York Former New York Police Officer Peter Liang will not serve time behind bars for killing an innocent, unarmed black man in 2014 in a case that drew passionate. Call Dr. Peter Liang on phone number (718) 273-0553 for more information and advice or to book an appointment. The case quickly spurred a division between Asian Americans. Play it now! What's 1._ name?B: My nam He had approached the rooftop door with his gun drawn. Many of the protesters were, and dismissive of Mr. Gurleys death basically co-opting the language of white supremacists. Once he did find Gurley, the father of a two-year-old, Liang radioed for an ambulance for a shooting victim, so shaken that he said he struggled to relay the address, he said. Among those not convicted is Daniel Pantaleo, the cop who was, killing Eric Garner, who posed no physical threat, by placing him in a clearly illegal chokehold for 19 seconds during which Garner. We 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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Peter Dutton is pledging to restore this tax break - and in doing so - taking a risk of his own - defending concessions for multi-millionaires while average families are doing it tough. [57][58][59], On February 10, 2015, Officer Liang was indicted by a grand jury for the shooting death of Gurley. I remember when I first heard the news, and spewed out this article in an angry, despondent word vomit. What made the charges be reduced? NYPD Officer Peter Liang cries as he recalls Akai Gurley's Brooklyn After Liang Conviction, NYPD to Pair Rookie Cops with Experienced Where is Peter Reckell now? Bio: Net Worth, Wife, Daughter, Family, Baby He said that neither of them tried to revive Gurley, with both of them saying they did not feel qualified to perform CPR. By Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent. That direction ended up playing the role of impartial observer. At one point a Chinese protester supporting Peter Liang walked across the street to protesters in support of Akai Gurley and began a dialogue. A jury convicted Liang of manslaughter, which a court later reduced to criminally negligent homicide. Those who are angered by the double standard between how the state holds white and Chinese American officers accountable must fight in solidarity with African Americans and other people of color to transform a .