“By the time they show up the crime has been done already, the person is shot, dead or whatever. Over a gold chain that wasn’t even real gold,” said Gonzales. “I was shot right behind this building in 1975. He hopes it would help to change the public perception of the NYPD officers, who, in his experience, always seem to come when it’s too late. “They say his gun discharged but still, he didn’t have to have his gun out.”Ī long-time resident of the Pink Houses, Gonzales supports making an example out of the Liang trial. Instead, Thompson recommended five years probation and six months house arrest, compared to the 15-year sentence that Liang faces for manslaughter.įor the tenants of the Pink Houses, one of the most dangerous housing projects in New York City, the upcoming sentencing hearing is an opportunity for the community’s safety concerns, such as poor maintenance which leaves hallways permanently darkened and elevators stalled, to be vindicated. Kenneth Thompson asked Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun to spare Liang prison time. Liang was convicted of manslaughter in February and on March 23rd, Brooklyn D.A. Gurley, a tenant of the apartment complex, was coming down a darkened stairwell, because the lack of building maintenance allowed bulbs to burn out and elevators to stall, when Liang, frightened and with his gun drawn, shot into the darkness and killed Gurley. “Manslaughter is 15 years, let them give him the 10,” said Gonzales of the recent sentencing recommendation for former NYPD officer Peter Liang who fatally shot resident Akai Gurley in the unlit stairwell of one of the Pink Houses in 2014. Photo by Amina Srnaįrancisco “Chico” Gonzales, 62, leaned against the fence outside of the Pink Houses Community Center in East New York, Brooklyn on a cold and bright March morning, smoking a cigarette without his hands while his fists balled up for warmth inside the pockets of his hoodie. The entrance of the Pink Houses Community Center, a safe haven for residents of the Pink Houses, deemed one of New York City’s most dangerous neighborhoods.
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