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‘Totally innocent’ unarmed 28yo ‘accidentally’ shot dead by NYPD police
Published time: November 21, 2014 20:59
Edited time: November 23, 2014 14:42
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.
I NEVER MET ONE HONEST COP; HAVE YOU? Hear me out before you jump too fast!
Even when people complain not all COPS ARE TREASONOUS CRIMINALS ARE WRONG! You see, in all departments, you have cops commiting crimes, but 100% of the so called “Honest” cops, don’t say or lift one finger to stop their fellow criminal cops! If they do, they will get a hard time, set up, and fired if they question or bring anything to the attention of anyone outside the department. So you see, anyone that says NOT ALL COPS ARE CRIMINALS ARE LIARS! If they even see ONE incident and they do not take action, they are CRIMINALS THEMSELVES BY COVERING UP THE CRIMES INSIDE THEIR DEPARTMENT! It does not matter what race anyone is; it is nothing but your Gov & Top 1%, against the 99% freedom lovers, to divide us.
My heart does not go out to the cops because who really knows how many people they murdered, set up, filed false charges, harrassed, or sent to jail that didn’t deserve it. You see, cops don’t care one bit about anyone but themselves. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY FAMILIES THESE CRIMINALS IN UNIFORM HARM WHEN THEY FALSIFY AND SET UP EVEN ONE PERSON? IT AFFECTS THE ENTIRE FAMILY; NOT JUST THAT ONE PERSON; so of course, its time for payback by many fed up with their criminal actions… The cops harm one person, yet their criminal actions physically affect 10 people down the chain, so they can’t comprehend this. So of course, many wives, children, brothers, sisters, have it out against all police…
So 2 officers were killed; who cares. I don’t. So when does 1 officers life have more meaning then that of anyone THEY MURDERED? Are they more “special” then anyone else, how many have been know to straight out murder and falsify/setup any citizen for no crimes but just because they had the power?
When the POLICE and MEDIA harps on one aspect just because they are a police officer, and not all the lives taken by the very hands of many of these treasonius cops, shows you they do value the life of one person above that of everyone else… Their goes out the door where all men are created equal… (Unless they are a criminal cop or top 1%; the bottom 99% who cares; you and all you’re families are worthless)
Also per FBI Stats, only 27 local police officers were killed in the line of duty in all of 2013; in all 50 states. So you see, the media and cops straight out lies to make it sound like this is a daily occurrance; when the FBI says it is not!
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