NYPD Officer Indicted In Death Of Akai Gurley, According To Reports

[kpete]

Source: Huffington Post

A New York City police officer has been indicted in the shooting death of 28-year-old Akai Gurley, law enforcement sources told both NY1 and The New York Daily News on Tuesday.

A bullet fired by rookie officer Peter Liang killed Gurley inside the darkened stairwell of the Louis Pink housing project in East New York, Brooklyn, on Nov. 20.

Although New York Police Department Commissioner William Bratton initially characterized the shooting as an “accidental discharge,” Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced in December that he was convening a grand jury to investigate Gurley’s death.


A spokeswoman for district attorney Thompson on Tuesday declined to confirm the indictment to The Huffington Post, saying the office was “precluded by grand jury secrecy.” It’s unclear what charges Liang is facing in Gurley’s death.



Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/10/akai-gurley_n_6655536.html

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Cop involved in fatal shooting of Akai Gurley has been indicted on manslaughter charges: source
Rookie cop Peter Liang was indicted Tuesday by a Brooklyn grand jury for the deadly shooting last November in an unlit stairwell in the Pink Houses, the Daily News has learned.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/involved-fatal-shooting-akai-gurley-indicted-article-1.2109892

[marym625]

1. FINALLY!

[johnson_z]

2. The Brits may be right...

Do we really need every police officer armed? Sometimes, it seems to me that this is sort of "putting out the fire with gasoline", or maybe just storing the matches too close to the gasoline?