Former NYPD officer Peter Liang was found guilty Thursday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project.
Liang was fired from the police force immediately after his conviction in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
Akai Gurley, 28, was shot by a ricocheting bullet fired from Liang’s pistol as he walked down the stairs with his girlfriend.
The rookie officer was also found guilty of official misconduct for refusing to help Gurley as he lay bleeding to death.
Liang and his partner were conducting a “vertical patrol” in the Louis H. Pink Houses housing project on Nov. 20, 2014.
Liang previously said he opened a door to the darkened stairwell and his gun went off. The bullet ricocheted off a wall and hit Gurley in the chest, piercing his heart.
Gurley’s girlfriend, Melissa Butler, testified that Liang paused briefly while she performed CPR on Gurley on the 5th floor landing. She said Liang then proceeded down the stairs without offering assistance.
Liang testified on the witness stand that he didn’t perform CPR on Gurley because he received poor training at the police academy.
The prosecution introduced into evidence audio of Liang’s radio call to police dispatch. The radio call showed the officer did not request an ambulance.
He faces up to 15 years in prison on the 2nd degree manslaughter charge.
Gurley is survived by 2 young daughters.
So the Asian officer gets found guilty but every single white officer walks free (with our without video evidence). SMH
Good thing a lying pig is off the streets.
Good to see a guilty verdict. Hopefully he will serve prison time. RIP??
Speak. I noticed that too. They let him know he may not be black, but he sure ain’t white.
They be forgetting white pp only care abt white ppl …
I would like to hear that audio
He’ll have a lot of time for meditating over the next 15 years. Check the mala beads on his left wrist. If he’s a practicing Buddhist, he knew better than to not show a dying man compassion.
Asian people consider themselves privileged like Caucasian people. This is a slap in their face that their not. Same with that Asian that was rapping all those black women in Chicago.
#Scapegoat The NYPD threw this Asian cop under the bus to show cops get convicted too? I would feel sorry for this man considering those who told him he was a God, and that he had the power of the badge on his side abandoned him…But, instead of trying to save the life of the man you just accidentally shot, you call your union rep and ask him to activate your cop-ly super powers of law evasion? Surprise Sunyi, you are Asian and thus expendable?? We’ll see how the sentencing goes? The fact that he was fired only after being found guilty? Man. This country’s laws are in need of a serious overhaul?? I see conservative bloggers *cough cough* are running the conviction story?? Seeeeee, cops do get convicted. I’m not fooled, look between the lines people??
#BlackLivesMatter
#YouAintWhite
#AllLivesMatterUnlessYoAssIsOfColor
#StayWoke
And white people don’t like Asians. Some white men like Asian women. But white people don’t like Asian people.
Finally!!!! A cop is convicted, but he damn sure won’t do a lot of time. SMH
It was also reported that Liang picked up the casing to try to cover up the fact that his gun went off, til he realized Gurley was shot.
#youaintwhite
Deep.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^COSIGN THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pretty much.
Like I said down thread. White people don’t like Asian people.
They swear they can sit with the YTs, til they realize that their asses ain’t YT
Wow. This jerk didn’t assist with CPR or request an ambulance…He is truly a pos.
I live here in NYC and sadly it is apparent that this is only a job for these officers and they couldn’t care less about protecting the neighborhoods they serve because they are not from there. A lot of them venture out from the Island (Nassau and Suffolk). We need to get our own black folks to take care of one another or this butchering is not going to stop.
Whoomp there it is!
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His sentence can range from 5 to 15. I doubt he’ll do 15. Honestly, I would be surprised if he even does 1 full year.
I’m starting to notice a pattern of the cops who are actually charged and indicted…
which part of bk? they are gentrifying the mess out of bedstuy and prospect park.. all those places. doesn’t surprise me that theyre still shooting up black folk. probably trying to clean it up for clear folks smh.
the yts that like asian women have eroticized them and sexualized them into some weird fantasy where asian women are ‘subservient,’ etc.
you asian fkkk did he think he was going to get white privilege…throw away the key
Yasss!!
I grew up in Oakland and although the white cops are shooting and killing us in the streets like dogs, black cops are just as bad, especially in the hood. They harass and pull over folks based on color as well.
Well that’s 2 for us 9999999 for them
He thought he had YT and blue privilege.
They sure do. Some of em are worse than the YT cops
Right shade wrong race.This has become pattern in NY.
Good. Sad he wont see much actual prison time though
I doubt he’ll even do a year
This is evidence of The System Of Racism White Supremacy right here. On the surface it appears the black man had no weapon but he did the weapon is his genitals.
Welllllllll
That’s because they have been ”trained” to do so.
DEAD @ “Surprise Sunyi” ????
Not totally yt and rookies? :thinks:
White ppl don’t like nobody but white ppl . It’s crazy that they invent all of these cancers & sickness but deny an absolute truth abt science which is they are a genetic mutation ..
I think that’s a direct effect and result of the BlackLivesMatter movement.
Can you blame him look at what happens to black ppl on a daily basis, GENOCIDE.
The Asian cop this week, the Hispanic cop last week, that East Indian cop is going to get it in FL too but still not on YT cop.
And Asians don’t like NOBODY.
And a lot of Asian woman play that role too, to snag themselves a white man, who they see as a “prize”.
I read that something like 30% of all Asian-American women end up marrying white men.
And don’t!
And those are usually the ones that are prejudiced against blacks. I had to tell a lil prejudice Indian woman that she was just as black as I am, and them YTs consider her ass a damn monkey and a n!gg3r too.
If you’re going to generalize and say yt people don’t like asian peope, you might as well generalize and say Asians don’t like yt people, and Black people don’t like yt people. Don’t act like it’s just one race supposedly not liking anyone but their race, because if that was the case, there would be no interracial relationships, and friendships would all be segregated by race.
Thats exactly what I meant. Only like the women, not Asians as human beings. Sick how white men objectify them.
EXACTLY!! When the man was found dead without a weapon, his azz should have been deep frying chicken in his father’s corner store, immediately!! But with all the backlash and the fact that more and more people are waking up, they needed to throw him out with last week’s trash. ONLY SOME COPS GET CONVICTED. Their message is clear: For every 50 of y’all we kill only 1 of us may get convicted and the chance of doing real time is slim to none. We’ll even kill your babies and make them the bad guy and won’t even say we are sorry.
While this is a victory let’s wait for sentencing to rejoice. Remember Bryan Conroy was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in NYC. He faced 15yrs….he received 5 yrs probation and lost his job.
Bloop
Throw the book at him!
Unfortunately the book will only be the cliffnote version.
True but some like this cop will try to fit in with whites.
Lmao….. Or written in a composition book.. Hell, better yet broken down to a Post-It documentary..
I think u are taking it too literal..of course all white ppl don’t hate us . But let’s not act like the system which is ran by whites doesn’t try it’s best to destroy blk lives .
Good job there next let’s see the sentence. Continued prayers for his family.
Hey boo..:)
This has been on my mind since it happened. He NOT yt. I expected for him to go down. Justice was served, I guess. His partner got immunity in exchange for his testimony??
I’m so over these dramatic court photos. What’s upsetting me is that they kill with impunity and don’t think a court will find them in the wrong. They really think they’ll be absolved when the victim is Black. RIP Akai.
His girlfriend was on news this morning with the lawyer. Prayers to all involved.
It is the courts’ fault that they think this, as they keep letting them off with a slap on the wrist or a stern talking to.
Aye somebody come get me when the subject change to something like Kanye recent twittuh rant
The only time a YT cop gets convicted is if the victim isn’t Black or YT trash
I need Kenya (Kanye) needs to take a fawkin Midol for PMS. So sick of his ass.
LOL… Hunni Midol might not be strong enough he need a muscle relaxer or something to chill him all the way out.
They stressed the fact that he was a former cop SO MANY TIMES THIS MORNING. This conviction means nothing until time is served. Real time. Behind bars. Not house arrest or probation. Better be years too. #doubtful
Do you know what he said about Taylor Swift?
Hunni, I thought that too (them being subservient) until I joined the military. I’ve met/seen so many asian women (Korean in particular) that were so bossy towards their husbands. And no this is not a generalization of all asians
Good news I guess… but sorry, I’m not all that impressed.
For every 1 that gets convicted, another 100 get away with it.
Amber and her fingers are headed to All Star from Trinidad Carnival. Im sure that has chilled him out before. She busy right now tho. She got places to be
i know, i have lots of asian friends.. that’s what i’m saying, they perpetuate the ‘subservient asian’ stereotype based on what has been fed to american audiences in cinema and outdated narrow historical gender roles.
Liang must have forgotten he was Asian for a minute in that stairwell.
Did y’all see/discuss Cleveland apologizing for the ambulance bill sent to Samaria Rice (Tamir Rice’s mom)?
Taylor’s brother was hot at Kanye! Threw away those ugly Yeezy shoes he had.
Umm hmm they said Taylor’s brother threw his Yeezys in the trash because of that line.
I just wrote that lol
Something about I made the bish famous and he would or ought to screw her.
He said he called her first and she approved the line. She thought it was dope.
But like they said…..”he still bought’em.” TUH
LOL
BYE fool.
And pick up some manpons he is ridiculous with it.
Ha! Jinx!
Lol
I can believe that. Messing with America’s Sweetheart was almost career suicide last time, so I wouldn’t think he would purposefully get out of pocket with her again. Clearly her bro still wasn’t here for it!
So true! And they are so ugly for me!
It was reported that he called his union rep or whatever before he could even call 911 sir even if it went off “accidently ” they will make an example outta you I guess guilty verdicts come back when goat faced sharpton isn’t involved .The family told his arse stay far away from them with his shenanigans
Hmmm..Kinda like RayJ did his girl. #shade
New York police officers are not required to perform CPR. The officer was probably cited for failure to act, because he didn’t request an ambulance.
In addition, if the patient was shot in the heart and experienced trauma/traumatic arrest, CPR would have been futile.
The survival rate for a patient with Gurley’s injuries is so low, that if he had made it to the hospital, the hospital probably wouldn’t have wasted its resources operating on him.
Nope , Taylor was already famous bc of talent . Kim ain’t even talented at taking dik …
What is your education/employment background?
And where was his partner at? Why didn’t he help as well? The partner also needs to be held accountable for neglecting to help the victim.
Did I say something that isn’t true?
But being that an autopsy wasn’t being performed in the stair…you know what?
@Sandrarose can you do a post of Lee Baca former LA Sheriff pleading guilty to misconduct.
Yeah we did they shady for it all. Had they not hired that cop it wouldn’t of went down like that. I don’t like my city for that, they know they did wrong and should of made sure he was convicted and that ish wasn’t sent to the family.
Whaatt? He really is losing it. Poor, Tink Tink.
From what was reported, it never should have been sent to her given the circumstances. So I would like to know what asshole sent it, and if it was sent out purposely with malicious intent.
Good for him! Now let’s prosecute the whites one too!
#11
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/full-list-of-stuff-white-people-like/
You obviously dont know much about the details of this case.
At all.
I heard about that. SMH. *in my President Obama voice* Kanye’s a jackass.
Fraction doesn’t know much regarding any thing …
LMAO!!!!!!!! Like an anti-depressant???
I said IF. Besides, a chest GSW is hard to miss.
Yes, ive been following the mitrice richardson case. Those cops had something to do with her death smh
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*Raised Eyebrows*
New York police officers are not required to perform CPR.
^^^^^^
I dont eem like -0.25%. But. This is true actually. They are required to be certified ONE time. At the academy. Re-certification is highly recommended. But not tracked. And are not required to administer it ever. Not just NYPD. Most cities PD
See this is what makes no sense, killing someone can get you 5 years but selling drugs, even marijuana, can get you 25 to life. Ish is rigged.
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I get that and know that. It’s the other stuff.
I’m hungry.
Only color most of them love is GREEN.
Its SAD AF. It was some case with a little girl with asthma who died and the officer told her mother he doesnt “do CPR”.
Its always the other stuff with him. Smdh. Ugh
I too suffer from hunger
I know I’m an unpopular rose, but I try to be as accurate as possible when I comment on Sandra’s articles.
I usually don’t engage for obvious reasons but…
Yes. They are not required by law. There’s a difference between legal responsibility and internal policy requirements. They are trained to provide CPR and failure to provide CPR alone, has led to several officers being reprimanded.
He was shot in the chest. Had you bothered to read…
I’m assuming that it would have been a waste of resources simply because he is black. The comment is asinine but I know how you roll. Black life is a waste unless it confines to your idea of worthiness.
Are you saying he wasn’t shot in the heart? Are you saying New York police officers are required to perform CPR?
he said he took it from a convo she had with a mutual friend.. said she told the friend that he made her famous… Shrugs.
Sometimes you are TOO extra @-0.000025th OfAPercentile. That is what folks dont like. But hey.
I see what you did right there LOL
…and you did not answer my question.
If she approved her brother betta take those free shoes out the trash.. plus you have to listen to the entire song its like he’s using sarcasm throughout the song like the line about BC fcuking Rob is what got him to workout.
SO TRUE……passed from a BLK hand.
Lies. Using lies as alibis. Hey Khaki!
She was HUGE before him. Country turned pop. We talked about that some time ago on this here portal. Lies I tell you!
I’m hangry.
That’s a tragedy that our own kind is participating in the police brutality. The apple has fallen sooo far away from the tree that many black people just can’t be saved. Might as well put some of these black people in the same group as the kkk.
Then again…untrue press is still press. It gets the people going.
Chipotle? Might I send in an order for you?
Moe’s! Its discount burrita bowl day! WHEWT. I never liked Chipotle. Eem before they started giving folks the chits.
New post – some L, M, N, O, P and Z folks
Oh. I haven’t bothered to listen since “Dropout”. So the song is about sarcasm. I get it.
Come on @-0.25thsOfAFraction. Leggo.
In my original statement, I mentioned the fact that he was shot in the heart. Obviously, I was aware of the nature of his injuries.
My comments about the hospital wasting its resources has nothing to do with race. The decision to operate on a patient is determined by the nature, severity, and survival rate of the patient’s injuries.
That’s Exactly what he gets…..Awe Ha ha ha haw..
You do realize that the chest and heart are NOT the same thing.
Good morning to you, too. ?
Booo to Moes. Go somewhere else. I’m going to Cafe Carolina for cupcakes today. I think I’ll eat just those for lunch.
So sad that Akai’s life ended this way. As for the Asian cop, when will these people understand that they are not white? Dear Chinese, Indians, Vietnamese people, they hate yall just like they hate us. I wish he would get life. Bye Felicia.
Never mind how the bullet got there. Was he shot in the heart and was the officer legally required to perform CPR?
Up to 15 years, that’s it? I swear that have to start really holding this crooked cops accountable. Praying for the young man family, my god.
Two advanced degrees. Healthcare for more than twenty years.
Hey Stinky McStinkums!!
I work in a hospital in the cardiac surgery department and even patients who are NOT considered “viable” based your list still have surgery, CPR, or other life saving measures performed on them in an attempt to save them. Even EMT’s perform life saving techniques in route to the hospital, so even if he did not wish to do CPR,, he should have requested emergency help.
And your second sentence says it all.
Uhn Uhn, you have already agreed with one of his comments and now you are asking him to come with you to another post!! Let me check your temperature, you aren’t coming down with Listeria or Zika are you?
I heard he was on the phone with the police union right after the shooting. I’m glad they threw him in prison. He deserves a much longer sentence.
He left the man on the floor to bleed to death? Why didn’t he call the ambulance ? So many questions.
You aren’t popular or unpopular, you just are. You come into a predominantly black blog and spew hateful rhetoric about blacks and state it as fact. That is what gets tiresome.
They hate them a little less, but not that much less to get away with the same shit they do.
Another one?
Darn shame. Well I hope now the police see they too can go to jail and prison.
He made her a victim, not famous.
15 Years isn’t enough for this!!
My comments are specific to TCA (traumatic cardiac arrest). The survival rate for those patients is less than 6% and with every passing minute, the survival rate further declines. In cases where hypovolemia is a factor, CPR can worsen the patient’s condition.
Wait wait so the officer and his girlfriend work together? How did she know what the office did in the stairwell?
About time I got a feeling though if he was white he would’ve walked. Only other cop I seen found guilty was the 1 from Oklahoma, who also happened not to be white.
That is not what you statement said. you said they wouldn’t operate based on certain factors and that is not always the case. Yes, it is case by case, but after a series of tests and medical review a surgery is determined. Either way if he had made it to the hospital they would have used their resources to save him, as they took an oath. I have seen a 90 year old woman who required an emergency AVR/MVR undergo surgery and now she skis on a regular basis.
Exactly, they’re using him as a scapegoat.
Here’s a direct quote from my initial statement:
“In addition, if the patient was shot in the heart and experienced trauma/traumatic arrest, CPR would have been futile.”
My assessment of this situation has always been based on the premise that the patient suffered traumatic cardiac arrest.
Poor excuse by him saying “poor training at the police academy.” I have taken BLS/CPR and the instructor has said the chest compressions is better than no chest compressions
That’s what I was thinking.
I hope they give this scum the max
“My comments about the hospital wasting its resources has nothing to do with race. The decision to operate on a patient is determined by the nature, severity, and survival rate of the patient’s injuries.”
If he had made it to the hospital, they would have attempted to save him, even if it meant an emergency surgery. Had the EMT arrived, they would have attempted to save him.
I saw this on the news the other day. Smh.
They would have attempted to save him in the ER, but the decision to take him in to surgery is a different matter.
Exactly… Not everyone is going to feel comfortable putting their mouths on a stranger’s(I wouldn’t either unless there was a barrier), but the least he could’ve done was the compressions. Absolutely no accountability.
Yet, Asian people sweat the hell outta white people!! After living in China, I saw that first hand!! White is right over there!! Never seen so many bleaching products in my life!!
Baby, you ain’t never lied! I was in BK a couple weeks ago and I couldn’t believe all the tight jean wearing hipsters! I’m in Harlem and we even getting them up here too! Queens ain’t no better. Have you been to Astoria lately?
In class, our instructor gave out barriers for us to use but sometimes in the heat of the moment you wouldn’t think about using them on impulse. I can’t find mine. Btw, I work in a hospital. we have to be certified CPR to be sustain employment.
Me too. I am a new(less than 3 weeks)unemployed RN ?. My bls is about to expire, so I hope I find work soon lol.
Plus Asian women are small built. Everywhere on them…so I assume. So you know the rest. If you know what I mean. Small package fit in small package…I guess
You will.
Yes they do! And look where it gets them. And they get surgery on their eyes too.
Now there are some Asians who won’t have isht to do with white people at all.
Thanks:)
Pretty sure CPR isn’t going to do much good if a bullet has pierced your heart.
They’re not trying to be become white. They’re trying to fit the Asian centric ideal of beauty, which is large eyes, light skin, small compact faces, etc. I watched a whole documentary on it. They want to look like them k-pop stars, not like whites. Based on what I’ve heard, Asians aren’t too fond of whites. Especially the Chinese. They hate LITERALLY everyone.
He didn’t know that a bullet pierced Akai’s heart. Only the coroner knew that. The cop didn’t even attempt to render aid.
Thank you for this post. I’ve known Asians who have no interest in knowing white people outside of work. I agree that they are trying to attain Asian k-pop ideal but there are Asians whom are obsessed with the European ideal and those obsessed with an Afro Asian cultural standard.
That’s because he threw the police union under the bus (he lacked adequate training from the academy) that was his fatality then! Smh!
It can also range from PROBATION. Let’s see what Judge Chun decides.
No, he is an f’up! He had his finger on the trigger, along with the flashlight in the other hand. He pushed through the door and he let off a shot that ricocheted into Akai. He was RECKLESS & NEGLIGENT. Off to jail he goes. I was there for the majority of the testimony. He didn’t render aid to Akai, argued about who was going to call the Sgt over the PHONE instead of the radio. Instead of seeing where his bullet went, he worried about himself. I just pray he doesn’t commit suicide b/c I will be there at his sentencing in April.
No he went looking for the casing & the bullet. As he went down to search for it he heard “noises.” He fired the shot on the 8th flr. Akai was found on the 5th flr. His GF was attempting CPR after getting directions from her neighbor who had 911 on her phone.
This was in Pink Houses. That’s East New york.
This is NOT TRUE! According to nypd’s patrolman’s guide they must render reasonable Aid. ALL Cops are trained in CPR and must pass it before graduating from the Academy. Liang & his parter, Landau, testified that they were given the answers & questions to the CPR test. Landau said he did not have an opportunity to work on a CPR dummy. Please don’t come up here spitting falsehoods. I was there for ALL the testimony and heard it with my ears & saw w/my eyes!
Well the autopsy photo that I SAW IN COURT it was 1/2 an inch near his sternum. See… ppl always trying to SOUND right but aren’t right. His shot was fatal but Liang AND Landau did NOTHING. Not even call it in over the radio for an EMS. The ME said that he would have lived for 3 minutes but that was no excuse for them not doing anything. NONE!
This is WRONG! They qualify in the Academy and are recertified yearly.
I got immunity for testifying. He’s a POS and the department fired him the same day the verdict came out.
A company policy isn’t the same as a state law. New York police officers are NOT required BY LAW to perform CPR.
Furthermore, please define REASONABLE AID. Reasonable aid means different things to different people.
According to what you just said, I was right and the medical examiner agreed with my assessment of the severity of Gurley’s injuries. Once that bullet pierced his heart, death was imminent and his chances of survival were slim to none.
Furthermore, I NEVER said the officers shouldn’t have tried to help Gurley. I said they weren’t obligated by law to perform CPR. I also said that if the officers had administered CPR, not only would it have not made much difference, it probably would have exacerbated the situation.
When I’m wrong, I have no problem admitting my mistakes. I suggest you learn to do the same.
Danielle Thor
Director of Temple University EMS
Police training protocols differ between each police department. For many departments CPR is required, but for others it may only be suggested
“NYPD officers are given CPR training at the Academy. But CPR certifications are only good for two years, and they’re not necessarily required to recertify. But to re-certify takes time, and takes police off patrols, and costs money.”
See below. Here in my city it’s not required either. My old boss, her husband is a trainer at our Academy.
No definitely, I know he’s guilty, but if he was white, he would have gotten off. That’s why I said he was a scapegoat, they’re trying to pretend like this can happen, and justice will be served