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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/n...n-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Ex-New York Officer Gets 5 Years of Probation in Fatal Brooklyn Shooting
Ex-New York Officer Gets 5 Years of Probation in Fatal Brooklyn Shooting
Thoughts on sentencing?In a Brooklyn courtroom packed with the relatives of his victim, Peter Liang, the former New York City police officer who fatally shot Akai Gurley while on patrol in a housing project stairwell, was sentenced on Tuesday to five years of probation, escaping a prison term in the divisive police misconduct case.
The sentencing in State Supreme Court put to rest a politically contentious case that highlighted concerns over police accountability. It began in November 2014 when Mr. Gurley was hit by a ricocheting bullet in a dark stairwell of the Louis H. Pink Houses in the East New York neighborhood, joining a list of other unarmed black men who had been killed by the police around the country.