The New York City Bar Association sponsored a discussion Monday about the relationship between the Asian American and African American community in the wake of former New York City Police Officer Peter Liang’s manslaughter conviction for the death of Akai Gurley. Liang, who is Chinese-American, was on patrol in 2014 when his single shot in a darkened public housing stairwell ricocheted off a wall and killed Gurley, who was black.
Panelists, from left, were Rev. Jaques DeGraff, the associate pastor of Canaan Baptist Church; Peter Kwong, professor of Asian American studies and urban affairs at Hunter College; Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele, senior community organizer of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Sandra Leung, a board member of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund; moderator C. Joy Williams, the founder and principal of LJW Strategies; Michael Garner, president of One Hundred Black Men Inc. of New York; and Assemblymen Ron Kim, D-Queens and Walter Mosley, D-Brooklyn.
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