“House arrest" &“community service,” for a trained cop who killed an unarmed man. On 4/19/2016, Liang was sentenced to 5 years of probation and 800 hours community service after downgrading his manslaughter conviction to criminally negligent homicide. A slap on the wrist.
#AkaiGurley
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The conviction galvanized the Chinese community in NYC & across the US. Many felt Liang (an Asian American) was a scapegoat. 3/28/2016, Brooklyn DA Kenneth P. Thompson recommended to Kings County Supreme Court Judge Danny Chun that Liang serve ONLY house arrest & community service.
#AkaiGurley
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Liang fired; the shot ricocheted off a wall & fatally struck Gurley in the chest. A jury convicted him of manslaughter, which was later reduced to criminally negligent homicide. He was convicted of manslaughter & official misconduct on 2/11/2016, facing up to 15 years in prison.
#AkaiGurley
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The Pink Houses are considered to be among the worst housing developments in New York.
Facts: The two officers entered a pitch-dark, unlit stairwell. Officer Peter Liang, 27, had his firearm drawn. Gurley and his girlfriend entered the 7th-floor stairwell, 14 steps below them.
#AkaiGurley
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#OTD in #History 2014
Nov 20: #AkaiGurley was Murdered by New York City Police Officer
Context: Two cops, patrolling stairwells in the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)'s Louis H. Pink Houses in Brooklyn fatally shot Akai Gurley, a 28-year-old African American man, was fatally shot.
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Eleven years ago, #AkaiGurley was killed by former NYPD Officer Peter Liang in a stairwell of the Pink Houses in Brooklyn. Akai was unarmed. Liang was convicted but walked with no jail time.
Today & every day we remember Akai & send strength to his family. #NeverForget #BlackLivesMatter
a belief that what worked during #CivilRights didn’t need new ideas. #SayHerName is a movement correction! This is what #accountability looks like I’m #DrMarcusBoard let’s figure this thing out, talking #KorrynGaines #AkaiGurley #FreddieGray #Baltimore and #NewYork
On 4-19-2016, Liang was sentenced to 5 yrs probation & 800 hrs community service because his manslaughter conviction was downgraded to criminally negligent homicide. A slap on the wrist for a trained cop who shot and killed an unarmed Black man.
#AkaiGurley
#AmericanHistory
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The conviction galvanized the Chinese community in NYC & across the US
Many felt Liang (an Asian American) was a scapegoat. On 3-28-2016, Brooklyn DA Kenneth P. Thompson recommended to Kings County Supreme Court Judge Danny Chun that Liang serve ONLY house arrest & community service.
#AkaiGurley
4/5
Officer Liang fired; the shot ricocheted off a wall & fatally struck #AkaiGurley in the chest. A jury convicted him of manslaughter & a court reduced it to criminally negligent homicide. He was convicted of manslaughter & misconduct on 2-11-16, facing up to 15 yrs in prison.
#AmericanHistory
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The Pink Houses are considered among the worst housing developments in NYC.
Facts: 2 cops entered a pitch-dark, unlit stairwell. Officer Peter Liang, 27, had his gun drawn. Gurley & his girlfriend entered the 7th-floor stairwell, 14 steps below them.
#AkaiGurley
#AmericanHistory
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#OTD in #HISTORY 2014
Nov 20: #AkaiGurley was Murdered by New York City Police Officer
Context: 2 cops, patrolling stairwells in the NYC Housing Authority (NYCHA)'s Louis H. Pink Houses in Brooklyn fatally shot Akai Gurley, a 28-yr-old African American man, was fatally shot.
#AmericanHistory
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#OTD #November20 #Peace #Love #Art #Activism #Feminism #JessieDanielAmes prevent lynching 1930 #JFK #fairhousing 1962, #AkaiGurley killed 2014 #BeatriceWhitnah demonstrated against #VietnamWar 1965, #NativeAmericans #Alcatraz takeover 1969 #DDT halted 1969 woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/11/20/n...
Within a week of my #AkaiGurley #PeterLiang #VincentChin article, I knew.
I needed to move home to NYC.
I needed to build relationships w/ my family & my Chinatown & Asian American community.
Ask the hard questions.
That's the only way we build up #Asians4BlackLives. 17/
And I was still grappling. I'd just written an article that changed the #AkaiGurley #PeterLiang convo, but our Asian American & #Asians4BlackLives community was still deeply divided.
Seeing an Asian American cop stand by as #GeorgeFloydWasMurdered, nothing much has changed. 15/
I wrote my #AkaiGurley #PeterLiang #VincentChin #Asians4BlackLives article in English, not expecting anyone in my family to (be able to) read it as they don't speak English. I thought I could be the liberal radical human I am away from my fam...
...nope. You can't do that. 10/
Then a Chinese American journalist in @nypost compared #PeterLiang's "unjust prosecution" to Pvt. Danny Chen, dead by suicide in US army, & Vincent Chin, beaten to death by white autoworkers w/ anti-Asian sentiments.
NO. #Asians4BlackLives #AkaiGurley 6/...
I thought, how does the fam of #AkaiGurley feel aout this? That so many Asian Americans were protesting FOR @NYPDnews cop #PeterLiang who killed him?
AND @caaav, who stood w/ Gurley's family, were being doxxed, their FB account w/ 100s of neg reviews. #Asians4BlackLives 5/
Asian Americans had to reckon with the #BlackLivesMatter movement, knowing a Chinese Asian American cop #PeterLiang killed #AkaiGurley. Many friends were mad Liang was guilty but the cop who killed #EricGarner roamed free. Many thought Liang should be freed. #Asians4BlackLives 4/
Context: 2014 #PeterLiang was a @NYPDnews cop who was patrolling the Pink Houses stairwell in Brooklyn, shot his gun, killing #AkaiGurley. Liang was the 1st cop prosecuted for an on-duty #NYPD shooting in over a decade. Feb 2016 he was found guilty in court. #Asians4BlackLives 2/
Cathy Dang @caaav- need multi-racial solidarity- how do we not undercut communities? #vincentchin #delrawnsmall #akaigurley #PhilandoCastile
No amount of $$ will bring #AkaiGurley back but $4.1mil NYC & #PeterLiang settlement is a start. STOP KILLING BLACK PPL. #Asians4BlackLives
NYC, #PeterLiang to Pay Over $4 Million Settlement to Family of #AkaiGurley http://nbcnews.to/2aWvC3b #Asians4BlackLives #APIs4BlackLives :'(
.@cmlauriecumbo & @MMViverito: please get @NYCCouncil to disarm NYPD patrol officers. #AkaiGurley #BlackLivesMatter
Rest in power, Akai Gurley. Peter Liang should have gotten jail time. No justice, no peace. #APIs4BlackLives #BlackLivesMatter #AkaiGurley
Some in our Chinese community are angry that CAAAV supports #AkaiGurley over #PeterLiang and thus #BlackLivesMatter over our own group (1/2)
My friends at @caaav were one of the 1st AAPI groups in NYC servicing Chinese to side fully with #AkaiGurley & against #PeterLiang- now look
I've been struggling with myself and with fam over whether or not to continue speaking publicly against #PeterLiang and for #AkaiGurley.
