Peter Liang — the police officer who in 2014 shot blindly into a darkened public
housing stairwell in Brooklyn where Akai Gurley was standing, striking and killing him — was found guilty of 2nd degree manslaughter and other charges Thursday.
Thompson was also lauded for successfully prosecuting NYPD officer Peter Liang after the fatal shooting of unarmed Akai Gurley in a dark public
housing stairwell.
George had been reporting on the trial of Peter Liang, an NYPD officer who fatally shot an unarmed man in a public
housing stairwell in 2014.
Peter Liang — the NYPD officer who in 2014 shot blindly into a darkened public
housing stairwell in Brooklyn where Akai Gurley was standing, striking and killing him — was found guilty of 2nd degree manslaughter and other charges.
SOHO — Councilwoman Margaret Chin issued a statement requesting «leniency» in the sentencing of the former NYPD officer convicted of killing an unarmed black man in a Brooklyn public
housing stairwell.
Thompson initially won praise from police reformers for prosecuting police officer Peter Liang for shooting and killing Akai Gurley in a public
housing stairwell in Brooklyn.
The appearance will happen a day before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun is slated to sentence Liang on his manslaughter conviction in the November 2014 fatal shooting of unarmed Akai Gurley in a public
housing stairwell in November 2014.
Not exact matches
Further reports insinuated Zenefits» company culture under Conrad was more frat
house than hackathon, complete with allegations of sex in the
stairwells and plenty of drinking.
The entry itself
houses merely a coat closet, the
stairwell, and a table.
The family of Akai Gurley, the unarmed man shot and killed in a Brooklyn
housing - project
stairwell by a police officer last year, has filed a wrongful - death lawsuit against New York City.
New York police officer Peter Liang was convicted of manslaughter in February 2016 for shooting Akai Gurley in a
stairwell in a public
housing project in Brooklyn.
An NYPD officer was reportedly indicted on multiple charges, including manslaughter, in the November shooting death of an unarmed black man in the darkened
stairwell of a
housing project.
The former rookie cop convicted in the 2014 shooting death of an unarmed man in a
housing - project
stairwell dodged prison Tuesday — as his victim's angry kin warned that «justice...
Fliedner was also the prosecutor who won a manslaughter conviction against NYPD cop Peter Liang for the 2014 accidental shooting of Akai Gurley in a darkened
housing - project
stairwell.
The former NYPD officer convicted of manslaughter for shooting an unarmed public
housing resident as he entered a darkened
stairwell in Brooklyn in 2014 does not pose a threat to the public and should not be sentenced to prison, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson, who prosecuted him.
Akai Gurley, 28, was walking in the darkened
stairwell of a public
housing when a rookie police officer, Peter Liang, shot and killed him.
From the start, the case of Peter Liang, a former Brooklyn police officer convicted in February of manslaughter for the shooting of Akai Gurley in a
housing project
stairwell, has seen its share of twists and turns.
Referencing the dark
stairwell where Liang shot Gurley, Chin blasted «the culture of neglect» in the city's public
housing projects.
The lawsuit also claims the New York City
Housing Authority should be held responsible for failing to properly light the
stairwell.
BROOKLYN — A jury found NYPD Officer Peter Liang guilty of manslaughter and official misconduct Thursday evening in the fatal shooting of unarmed father Akai Gurley in the
stairwell of an East New York
housing complex in November 2014.
For four minutes, the NYPD police officer who had just fired his gun into a darkened
housing project
stairwell argued with his partner over whether to tell their superiors about the shot.
Former NYPD officer Peter Liang was sentenced to probation by a Brooklyn judge for shooting an unarmed black man in a public
housing project
stairwell in 2014 in a ruling expected to set off denunciations from police critics.
«It's another example of what our officers confront every single day, keeping us safe not only on the streets of New York City, but in the
stairwells and the hallways of our public
housing developments,» said Mayor de Blasio.
Murdough, who was homeless and on anti-psychotic medication, had been jailed for trespassing after a cop found him trying to keep warm in the
stairwell of a
housing project.
Thompson also brushed off calls for a special prosecutor in the police shooting death of Akai Gurley, an unarmed black man fatally shot by a rookie cop in the
stairwell of a Brooklyn public
housing complex.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams seemed to rebuke NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton on the airwaves this morning for labeling the shooting death of Akai Gurley at the hands of Officer Peter Liang in the
stairwell of a Brooklyn
housing project as «an accident.»
«Those
houses, public
housing, can be a dangerous environment in the
stairwell.
BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn judge refused to toss out the indictment against rookie NYPD Officer Peter Liang, who is accused of fatally shooting Akai Gurley in the
stairwell of a Brooklyn
housing project last November.
Police Commissioner William Bratton said Tuesday that an extensive internal investigation was launched within a half - hour of claims made during the trial of Mr. Liang, who was found guilty this month in the November 2014 shooting death of Akai Gurley in the
stairwell of a Brooklyn public -
housing complex.
Officer Peter Liang in November shot and killed Gurley, 28, in an unlit
stairwell inside an East New York
housing project.
Mr. Liang shot and killed the unarmed Gurley in an unlit
stairwell inside an East New York public
housing development.
A day after a Brooklyn jury convicted NYPD Officer Peter Liang of manslaughter in the killing of public
housing resident Akai Gurley, Mayor Bill de Blasio defended the kind of routine
stairwell search that precipitated the 28 - year - old unarmed man's death in 2014.
Liang was convicted of manslaughter last month for the shooting death of Akai Gurley in the
stairwell of an East New York
housing project.
Liang, 28, faces anywhere from zero jail time to 15 years in prison for accidently shooting unarmed passer - by Akai Gurley in an unlit Brooklyn
housing - project
stairwell in 2014.
Kry came up with the idea a few years ago, as a way to do something about the blank hallways and
stairwells in the building that
houses his lab.
It looked like a typical old East Coast
house, rickety
stairwells, pictures of the ancestors.
He ran to the IMF safe
house, where he broke a lightbulb and scattered glass fragments on the floor at the top of the
stairwell - to alert him if anyone approached.
At Woodcock's London
house, workers arrive in rapt formation, rising to Jonny Greenwood's swelling score for one of the greatest
stairwell scenes since Hitchcock.
Two battling brothers, younger Danny (Jonah Bobo) and older Walter (Josh Hutcherson), left alone in the
house for an afternoon begin playing an old game Danny finds under the
stairwell.
There are just nine rooms in the main
house, a contemporary, handsome
house with open lanais and
stairwells situated around a central courtyard (the building also has a theater - room and library); a couple of hundred feet away, there are five additional yurts, all with modern conveniences and furnishings - they're not as fancy as the rooms in the main
house, which has antique plantation tables, beds, and dressers along with spacious bathrooms, but they're funky and reasonably priced (they have a private toilet and sink -... MORE guests use the spa locker room and showers for bathing).
It's a nice opportunity to scare anyone in your
house by shouting things like «
Stairwell clear!»
Her signature works are astonishingly ambitious castings of interiors, including a
house, a room, a water tower and a
stairwell.
Panel 1: decayed
stairwell of the Zonnestraal Sanatorium designed by architect Jan Duiker Panel 2 - 6: 1932 era windows of the VDL Research
House by Richard Neutra image courtesy Charlie James Gallery
Responding to the peculiarities of the building as well as the particular history and nature of Glasgow, the galleries and
stairwell within a magnificent town
house are reimagined as a landscape of sculptural elements that turn the building into what Bock terms a «poisoned body».
In addition to the open
stairwell, light is admitted to the north side of the area with a high performance, Passive
House (PHI) certified skylight, covering a six by sixteen foot area.
I get to the
house and it is not at all like the pictures and the
stairwell in the
house is a huge safety hazard for children.
The master suite's ornate mirror and console came with the
house and had previously adorned the main
stairwell.
In our old
house we had tons of wall space for hanging family photos in big
stairwells and those big rooms, so when we moved here we brought a zillion framed photos.
In older
houses you sometimes have those fun little nooks, quirky
stairwells, small hallways or pockets of space that add to the ambience of the home.
It makes me think this
house was destined to be sitting in this exact spot, positioned this exact way, and the windows and
stairwell were meant to be constructed exactly where they are.