NEW YORK (AP) — The rookie police officer who shot an unarmed man in a dark public housing stairwell says what happened was a deadly accident. Prosecutors call it manslaughter and say he acted recklessly and then did little to help the dying man. Jurors will start discussing their views of Officer Peter Liang’s actions […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A friend of an unarmed man who was shot by a rookie New York Police Department officer in a darkened housing project stairwell can be heard wailing in the background on a recording of a 911 call that was played publicly for the first time Monday at the officer’s manslaughter trial. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Even prosecutors agree that rookie New York police officer Peter Liang didn’t mean to shoot and kill Akai Gurley in a pitch black stairwell in 2014. But Liang will go on trial this week for manslaughter anyway in a prosecution that stands in contrast to other cases around the country in […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A rookie police officer was arguing with his partner over who should call their supervisor in the chaotic moments after he’d accidentally fired his gun into a darkened stairwell of a public housing complex, and he did nothing to help when he discovered later that he’d mortally wounded an unarmed man, […]
Chicago police routinely violate the constitutional rights of mostly African-Americans who have not committed any crime, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week, reports…
NEW YORK (AP) — The indictment of New York Police Department Officer Peter Liang Wednesday on charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the stairwell shooting of Akai Gurley comes two months after a grand jury declined to charge Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Eric Garner. Both were unarmed black men who died at […]
Rev. Al Sharpton talks about the indictment of the New York cop who shot Akai Gurley and the presence of blacks in Hollywood. “We must remain focus on the packing Sony Pictures started. We have formed a task force to deal with the lack of black presence in Hollywood. Let’s look at the fact that […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A rookie police officer who fired into a darkened stairwell at a Brooklyn public housing complex, accidentally killing a man who had been waiting for an elevator, has been indicted in his death, a lawyer said Tuesday. Officer Peter Liang will appear in court Wednesday in the November shooting death of […]
Washington, D.C. hosted the most high-profile and traditional of Saturday’s protests against racial bias in the legal system. The march and rally was organized by National Action…
Washington, D.C. hosted the most high-profile and traditional of Saturday’s protests against racial bias in the legal system. The march and rally was organized by National Action…
