Sentences with phrase «housing stairwell»

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.

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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.
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