The shooter—former NYPD officer Peter Liang—will pay $25,000.

Activists gathered outside Sing Tao Daily’s New York City office to protest the paper for not publishing a letter demanding justice for Akai Gurley. 

The ex-NYPD officer will not serve any jail time for killing Akai Gurley. Judge says Liang’s fatal shooting of the unarmed Black man was an accident. 

The ex-NYPD officer will be sentenced next week for killing Akai Gurley in November 2014.

Brooklyn district attorney Ken Thompson: “This tragic case has always been about justice and not about revenge.”

Harlins’ death at the hands of Korean shop owner Soon Ja Du, who served no jail time, inflamed community tensions in South Central Los Angeles that later manifest in the 1992 riots. 

Check out Kayan Cheung-Miaw’s “Dear Brother” here. 

Annie Tan responds to claims connecting her uncle’s tragedy to the conviction of fomer NYPD Officer Peter Liang.

A jury recently found the Chinese-American former officer guilty of killing Akai Gurley, an unarmed Black man.

While some members of the community say justice was served, others feel Liang was scapegoated in a city where no officer has been convicted of a felony in more than a decade.

Officer Peter Liang was charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide for fatally shooting Akai Gurley in a Brooklyn public housing building in 2014. His trial began on Monday.

The NYPD officer who killed Akai Gurley appears in court.