NEW YORK -- When rookie police Officer Peter Liang fired his gun in a pitch-dark public housing stairwell, he at first thought he had hurt nothing but his career. Then he went looking for the bullet ...
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) – The family of a 28-year-old fatally shot by an NYPD officer commemorated his death on Saturday, 10 years after the young father was killed in Brooklyn. Akai Gurley was fatally ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Jury selection starts Wednesday in the trial of NYPD Officer Peter Liang, charged with the 2014 fatal shooting of an unarmed man inside a Brooklyn apartment stairwell. Liang was a ...
A rookie police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to manslaughter, official misconduct and other charges in the accidental shooting death of a man in a darkened stairwell of a Brooklyn public ...
It’s been nearly six years since thousands of Chinese immigrants marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in the largest Asian American protest I’ve ever seen in the United States, sparked by the conviction ...
(NEW YORK) — A New York City police officer was convicted of second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Akai Gurley, an unarmed man who police commissioner Bill Bratton said “just happened” ...
*Officer Peter Liang, a rookie NYPD officer who fired into a darkened stairwell at a Brooklyn public housing complex, accidentally killing a man who had been waiting for an elevator, was indicted in ...
Peter Liang, the rookie New York City police officer who fired into a dark Brooklyn housing project hallway, killing unarmed Akai Gurley on Nov. 20, 2014, has been found guilty of manslaughter. The ...
“I’ve never trusted the police,” Hertencia Petersen said as she shifted her weight in her seat. “I think cops work on modern-day lynching mode.” Our cameras were rolling as she candidly shared her ...
Mr. Gurley, who was unarmed, was fatally shot by a police officer in a Brooklyn housing project in 2014, setting off a wave of protests. By Niraj Chokshi Ken Thompson, the borough’s first black ...
It's been a little more than a month since former NYPD Officer Peter Liang was spared prison time for shooting and killing 28-year-old Akai Gurley. Now Gurley's family members are uniting with others ...