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'Totally innocent' unarmed 28yo
'accidentally' shot dead by NYPD
police
A rookie NYPD officer "accidentally" shot and killed an unarmed
African-American man in a staircase in a New York apartment block. It
happened as
Ferguson is tensely waiting for a grand jury decision on a police
officer who shot Michael Brown.
Akai Gurley, 28, and his girlfriend Melissa Butler were entering a
staircase on the seventh floor in
Pink House project in Brooklyn late Thursday evening when two
policemen came down from
the eighth floor. Peter Liang and his partner,
Shaun Landau were doing a top-to-bottom patrol.
Liang, a rookie on probationary assignment, fired a shot in Gurley's
chest without a warning, Butler said.
"They didn't present themselves or nothing and shot him," Butler told
DNAinfo New York. "As soon as he came in, the police opened the [door
to the] eighth-floor staircase. They didn't identify themselves at
all. They just shot."
Gurley and Butler tried to go down the stairs but reached only the
fifth floor where Gurley lost
consciousness. There a neighbor called an ambulance. Butler says the
policemen did not come to help nor called the ambulance. Gurley, who
has a 2-year-old son, was pronounced dead on arrival to hospital.
An NYPD spokesperson said the police department's internal affairs
bureau is investigating the shooting. Liang has been placed
on modified assignment and was relieved of both his badge and gun.
The police are collecting information from witnesses and radio reports
without talking to
Liang as according to the policy, he will be interrogated in the
District Attorney's office first
and then by internal affairs officers.
"What happened last night was a very unfortunate tragedy,'' police
commissioner Bill Bratton said in
a statement. "The deceased is totally innocent. He just happened to be
in the hallway. He was not
engaged in any criminal activity.''
Bratton said it probably was an accidental discharge of weapon.
"So here's an unarmed, black 28 year old in the stairwell," former
City Councilmember Charles
Barron said as quoted by CBS New York. "Two officers, one Asian, one
white, fully armed. He's unarmed, they meet on the stairwell and he
winds up dead with a bullet in his chest. I want to hear the
justification for this one. Don't tell me the hallway was dimly lit.
That's no reason to kill a black man on a stairwell."
The incident happened while a grand jury decision concerning Michael
Brown's death is awaited. Unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot
and killed in Ferguson by police officer
Darren Wilson in August. The shooting caused riots in the area and
tensions between police and
the African-American community.
rt.com/usa/207795-police-officer-kill-unarmed/
--
Hussein Juruga Lumumba Amin
Kampala, Uganda
--
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'accidentally' shot dead by NYPD
police
A rookie NYPD officer "accidentally" shot and killed an unarmed
African-American man in a staircase in a New York apartment block. It
happened as
Ferguson is tensely waiting for a grand jury decision on a police
officer who shot Michael Brown.
Akai Gurley, 28, and his girlfriend Melissa Butler were entering a
staircase on the seventh floor in
Pink House project in Brooklyn late Thursday evening when two
policemen came down from
the eighth floor. Peter Liang and his partner,
Shaun Landau were doing a top-to-bottom patrol.
Liang, a rookie on probationary assignment, fired a shot in Gurley's
chest without a warning, Butler said.
"They didn't present themselves or nothing and shot him," Butler told
DNAinfo New York. "As soon as he came in, the police opened the [door
to the] eighth-floor staircase. They didn't identify themselves at
all. They just shot."
Gurley and Butler tried to go down the stairs but reached only the
fifth floor where Gurley lost
consciousness. There a neighbor called an ambulance. Butler says the
policemen did not come to help nor called the ambulance. Gurley, who
has a 2-year-old son, was pronounced dead on arrival to hospital.
An NYPD spokesperson said the police department's internal affairs
bureau is investigating the shooting. Liang has been placed
on modified assignment and was relieved of both his badge and gun.
The police are collecting information from witnesses and radio reports
without talking to
Liang as according to the policy, he will be interrogated in the
District Attorney's office first
and then by internal affairs officers.
"What happened last night was a very unfortunate tragedy,'' police
commissioner Bill Bratton said in
a statement. "The deceased is totally innocent. He just happened to be
in the hallway. He was not
engaged in any criminal activity.''
Bratton said it probably was an accidental discharge of weapon.
"So here's an unarmed, black 28 year old in the stairwell," former
City Councilmember Charles
Barron said as quoted by CBS New York. "Two officers, one Asian, one
white, fully armed. He's unarmed, they meet on the stairwell and he
winds up dead with a bullet in his chest. I want to hear the
justification for this one. Don't tell me the hallway was dimly lit.
That's no reason to kill a black man on a stairwell."
The incident happened while a grand jury decision concerning Michael
Brown's death is awaited. Unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot
and killed in Ferguson by police officer
Darren Wilson in August. The shooting caused riots in the area and
tensions between police and
the African-American community.
rt.com/usa/207795-police-officer-kill-unarmed/
--
Hussein Juruga Lumumba Amin
Kampala, Uganda
--
UAH forum is devoted to matters of interest to Ugandans. Individuals are responsible for whatever they post on this forum.To unsubscribe from this group, send email to: ugandans-at-heart+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com or Abbey Semuwemba at: abbeysemuwemba@gmail.com.
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