NYPD Officer Avoids Prison In Negligent Stairwell Killing

By Bob Owens

Poorly-trained NYPD officer Peter Liang will not see any prison time for a negligent discharge of his duty pistol that killed an innocent bystander.

NYPD officer Peter Liang will not serve time behind bars for fatally shooting an innocent, unarmed black man in 2014 in a case that has drawn the attention of both Asian American and African American protesters.

A Brooklyn judge sentenced Liang to five years of probation and 800 hours of community service on Tuesday, saying the rookie cop never intended to shoot — let alone kill — Akai Gurley while patrolling a dark stairwell in a Brooklyn housing project.

Liang was convicted in February of manslaughter and official misconduct for firing a shot that ricocheted off a wall and struck Gurley in the heart, but Judge Danny Chun on Tuesday reduced the manslaughter charge to criminally negligent homicide.

Liang is getting almost all of the blame for Gurley’s death, and not without reason; it was his duty Glock 19, and he pulled the trigger.

But Liang was set up for failure by the NYPD and New York City’s rabid anti-gun culture from the very start, and they bear at least some of the blame.

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