𝐀𝐤𝐚𝐢 𝐆𝐮𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐲 Akai was fatally shot on November 20, 2014, in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, by a New York City Police Department officer. Two police officers, patrolling stairwells in the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)'s Louis H. Pink Houses in East New York, Brooklyn, entered a pitch-dark, unlit stairwell, one of them, Officer Peter Liang, 27, with his firearm drawn. Gurley and his girlfriend entered the seventh-floor stairwell, fourteen steps below them. Liang fired his weapon; his shot ricocheted off a wall and fatally struck Gurley in the chest. A jury convicted Liang of manslaughter, which a court later reduced to criminally negligent homicide. On February 10, 2015, Liang was indicted by a grand jury (seven men and five women) for manslaughter, assault, and other criminal charges (five counts total) after grand jury members were shown footage of the unlit Pink house, and passed around the 9mm Glock used in the shooting, testing the possibility of equipment failure - concluding that the 11.5-pound (51-newton) trigger could not have been fired unintentionally. Liang turned himself in to authorities the next day to be arraigned on the charges. Liang was convicted of manslaughter and official misconduct on February 11, 2016, and faced up to 15 years of prison time. He was expected to appeal while he remained free without bail. The conviction galvanized the Chinese community in New York City and across the United States. Chinese Americans used WeChat on a massive scale along with Facebook, Twitter, and email to organize rallies in major cities. Peter Liang appealed the court's decision. On March 28, 2016, the prosecuting Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson recommended to Judge Danny Chun that Liang serve only house arrest and community service for his sentence. On April 19, 2016, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun sentenced Peter Liang to five years of probation and 800 hours community service, after downgrading his manslaughter conviction to criminally negligent homicide. #AccidentMyAss #ThisIsNotJustice #AkaiGurley #PoliceBrutality #Overfunded #Murder #Justice #Dehumanize #BLM https://www.instagram.com/p/CBM_U82Aw98/?igshid=9zmcs45ty0qh
