Former New York City Police Officer Peter Liang won’t serve prison time for his on-duty shooting of unarmed Akai Gurley with a ricocheted bullet in a dark public housing stairwell in November 2014.
Acting Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun reduced Liang’s second-degree manslaughter conviction to criminally negligent homicide April 19 and imposed a five-year probation sentence and 800 hours of community service. Prosecutors had proposed a sentence of six months home confinement with electronic monitoring, five years probation and 500 hours of community service.
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