Akai Gurley’s Killer Will Not Face Jail Time After “accidentally” shooting Akai Gurley as he walked home — simply because he couldn’t see who was coming around the corner — a judge has ruled that convicted killer Peter Liang will not face any prison time. Instead, Liang was sentenced to six months house arrest, 500 hours of community service and five years’ probation. Via NYDN : The rookie cop convicted of killing an unarmed black man in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project won’t spend even one night in jail for the crime. “This is bull—-! The system is f—ed up,” one spectator snapped after Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun sentenced Peter Liang to five years’ probation and 800 hours of community service for the fatal shooting of Akai Gurley. “Akai’s life doesn’t matter,” Gurley’s aunt, Hertencia Petersen, fumed. “Another black man has been murdered by the hands of the Police Department. And the officer is not being held accountable.” Outside the courthouse, scores of angry protesters chanted “The whole damn system is guilty as hell!” At the same time, about 100 of the cop supporters yelled “Justice for Liang!” The mild-mannered Liang showed little emotion when he learned his fate – or when he pleaded his case to the judge, saying he regretted the “devastation” he caused when his gun went off in the dimly lit stairwell. “I was in shock. I could barely breathe. The shot was accidental, but someone was dead,” he said. “My life is forever changed. I hope I have a chance to rebuild it.” So an officer can shoot a Black man dead for simply walking home to his own apartment and face not a single day of jail time? Clearly it is open season on African Americans as far as the police force is concerned… NYDN
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No Justice: Officer Who Murdered Akai Gurley Will Not Face Any Jail Time
