Peter Liang shot unarmed Akai Gurley in a Brooklyn housing development stairwell.
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A Brooklyn judge on Tuesday reduced the conviction against former NYPD officer Peter Liang — who fatally shot an unarmed Akai Gurley in 2014 — from manslaughter to criminally negligent homicide.
Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Danny Chun sentenced Liang to five years probation — no jail time — and 800 hours of community service. Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson previously requested Liang not be sent to prison.
"There is no justice. This is ridiculous," Gurley's aunt said after the court hearing.
Liang fired his service weapon while he was on the eighth floor stair landing of the Pink Houses in Brooklyn. The bullet hit a wall, ricocheted, and fatally struck Gurley, who was standing on the seventh floor landing.
Last month, Thompson said that the former officer is not a threat to public safety. The sentence comes with the condition that Liang serve six months of home confinement with electric monitoring. Liang will also serve 500 hours of community service.
"Peter Liang was indicted, prosecuted and subsequently convicted by a jury because his reckless actions caused an innocent man to lose his life," Thompson said in a statement last month. "There is no evidence, however, that he intended to kill or injure Akai Gurley. When Mr. Liang went into that building that night, he did so as part of his job and to keep the people of Brooklyn and our city safe."
LINK: Prosecutor Wants No Jail Time For NYPD Officer Convicted Of Manslaughter
LINK: Read BuzzFeed News's Full Coverage Of The Trial Here.
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