Akai Gurley

In February, Liang was convicted of manslaughter and faced up to 15 years behind bars.

Liang claimed he accidentally fired his weapon after reacting to a startling noise during a vertical patrol in a dark stairwell.

Officer is being charged with manslaughter after “accidentally” shooting a Brooklyn man in the chest.

NYPD commissioner William Bratton is doing away with a long-established program that assigns rookie officers to patrol high-crime neighborhoods.

Recent tragic incidents involving the New York City Police Department (NYPD)—including the summer 2014 death of Eric Garner, who was being arrested on Staten Island, and the autumn 2014 death of Akai Gurley, shot accidentally by a young police officer in a housing project in Brooklyn—have reinvigorated police critics, especially in the context of a broader national discussion about crime and race prompted by events in Ferguson, Missouri.

With their heads tilted downwards, the family members of black men who recently died at the hands of police—Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Akai Gurley—linked arms and closed their eyes in prayer.

In February, Liang was convicted of manslaughter and faced up to 15 years behind bars.

Liang claimed he accidentally fired his weapon after reacting to a startling noise during a vertical patrol in a dark stairwell.

Officer is being charged with manslaughter after “accidentally” shooting a Brooklyn man in the chest.

NYPD commissioner William Bratton is doing away with a long-established program that assigns rookie officers to patrol high-crime neighborhoods.

Recent tragic incidents involving the New York City Police Department (NYPD)—including the summer 2014 death of Eric Garner, who was being arrested on Staten Island, and the autumn 2014 death of Akai Gurley, shot accidentally by a young police officer in a housing project in Brooklyn—have reinvigorated police critics, especially in the context of a broader national discussion about crime and race prompted by events in Ferguson, Missouri.

With their heads tilted downwards, the family members of black men who recently died at the hands of police—Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Akai Gurley—linked arms and closed their eyes in prayer.