Former NYPD cop Peter Liang’s guilty verdict leaves a community divided (attorney, deaths)
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Without knowing someone was shot, they were arguing about who should be contacting their supervisor. Only later as they went to look for the spent shell case, they knew someone was shot.
well, I am not sure if "race" plays a role in this case. After all, jurors voted guilty.
I think if one innocent person died, and the person who killed that person was a cop, most would say the cop is automatically guilty. Not many people like or respect police officers, I have no ideas why. But it seems like this is the reality.
15 years, I guess accident is now a crime. I don't think this cop deserved this.
If my memory serves me right, this is the first time in 20 years of NYPD history a police was convicted for killing someone. It happened in a time when race tension between black and white is sky high and to an Asian, a race nobody gives a crap.
According to some Chinese forums, Chinese Americans in NYC, LA and other cities will hold protests on Feb 20.
They claim Peter Liang, as an Asian American, is a scapegoat for the system to ease the tension between the police and a certain population.
According to some Chinese forums, Chinese Americans in NYC, LA and other cities will hold protests on Feb 20.
They claim Peter Liang, as an Asian American, is a scapegoat for the system to ease the tension between the police and a certain population.
Maybe he is.
Doesn't stop the fact that he is still responsible for the death of an innocent life & chose not to do anything to help that person.
He let him die in that stairwell & his only concern was his job.
Peter Liang & his partner(both rookies) went into a project building to do foot patrol against orders.
They enter a dim stairwell & Peter has his gun drawn with hand on the trigger. Apparently he opened the door with the same hand that was holding the gun
The Victim was walking down the stairs & the noise he made startled Peter.
Peter pulls the trigger(by mistake he says), and the bullet ricocheted off the wall & struck the victim in the chest
Now this is where it gets nasty.
The first thing Peter does is exit the stairwell & argue with his partner about what to do. He then decided it was best to phone his union rep.
Meanwhile, the victim is dying in the stairwell.
A 911 call was placed around 18-25 minutes AFTER the victim was shot. The call was placed by a neighbor that heard the victims girlfriends screams in the stairwell.
The 911 operator is telling the neighbor on the phone how to administer CPR to the victim & the neighbor is yelling this out of her apartment to the victims girlfriend.
All while this is happening Peter Liang & his partner are in the hallway with their union reps trying to save their jobs.
Thanks for the recap. I remember when this happened. This poor man was gunned down and suffered before he died at the hands of a an inexperienced and stupid cop. His supporters are basically saying he shouldn't be punished because other cops in the past didn't. Sad.
Peter Liang was responsible for the death of Akai. That is a fact.
Peter Liang did nothing to help Akai. That is a fact.
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Leave it to BSNBC to turn any story into a race issue.
