This is justice.
Blacks were calling for this guy’s head. He’s the cop that was startled in a dark staircase, firing off a shot that caromed around and down a staircase and fatally wounded a guy hanging out in the dark with his girlfriend.
NYDN- The rookie cop who killed an unarmed Akai Gurley 
in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project escaped jail time on Tuesday as scores of his supporters and protesters rallied outside the courthouse.
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun sentenced Peter Liang
to five years probation and 800 hours of community service after Liang pleaded his case.
“Growing up my parents thought it was a foolish dream that I wanted to become a police officer. When I graduated from the academy it was a dream come true,” Liang told the judge, before apologizing to Gurley’s family.
“The shot was accidental,” he said.
“My life is forever changed. I hope I have a chance to rebuild it.”
I realize that all I know about the case is what I’ve read and that there may well be more to it, but this doesn’t sound like justice to me…why was he prosecuted criminally if indeed it was accidental?
If he’d accidentally hit the guy with his car, at least around here, the only way he would have been prosecuted would be if they could show some level of intent or gross negligence. Intoxication would qualify as gross negligence.
Because of the intense commotion from the over indulged protesters it was probably the best he could hope for but I don’t see it as justice.
Every Law Enforcement Professional should be granted immunity for discharging a weapon within 100 yards of a ‘Project.’ In fact, there should be a bounty if tax payer relief shot achieved positive results towards ANY low life of the gang banger persuasion.
First of all, his action was not an accident. He pulled the trigger intentionally.
The death was an accident, not what the cop did.
Involuntary manslaughter is a crime, and he committed it. Of that there is no doubt.
His lapse of judgement cost the life of an innocent person. For that he should be punished. The price he is paying is far lower than the price paid by the recipient of his error.
He and his family should be grateful for that.
He never should have been a cop, but jail time for this accident? If he had fired directly at the guy, maybe. But he got scared and fired at the wall, NOT at the guy. The bullet ricocheted and tragically ended a life. The people screaming for ‘justice’ are cop-hating racists. If they lead their lives like civilized human beings, cops wouldn’t draw their guns as a matter of fact when entering their dangerous, violent apartments where they behave like wild animals.
To make matters worse, the racist cop-haters that they follow like Sharpton, Obama, and DeBlasio egg them on.
No one should die like this in a darkened stairway but it’s very telling that the revenge seekers screaming for “justice” want to get at the “root cause” of everything except the atmosphere that contributes to this insanity.
Rule #1; Always know your target…..
Finger on trigger before a target is present, bad training that idea.
Mr. Curtain,
I respectfully disagree. The cop was “trained” in the proper use of his handgun. When to unholster it, when to fire it, &c. He chose to ignore his training and allow his fears to cause the death of an “innocent.” If he was so scared that he killed another human being, he should have left the area until someone could be dispatched to hold his hand and calm him down.
The police should be held to a HIGHER standard – not given a pass when they willfully ignore their training, conditioning, and better judgment.
izlamo delenda est …
The cop testified that he had is finger outside the trigger guard, heard a loud noise, and the gun “went off”.
Lying and insulting the intelligence of those in the court is not a path to sympathy.
As I look into this, it is obviously negligent homicide, rather than involuntary manslaughter.
Anyone other than a cop doing something like that would do serious jail time.
“”It startled me (then) the gun just went off,” Liang testified during the trial”
I’ll bet money it was a Glock. There’s a movement under way to get them removed from PD’s