New York Chinese police convicted for manslaughter and thousands of black Chinese protest

A grand jury in Brooklyn, New York court has ruled Chinese police officers convicted of manslaughter Peter Leung, faces up to 15 years in prison. Peter Leung duty in the case of manslaughter youth of African descent because of its ethnic minority backgrounds and concern, the current ruling is also the Chinese community has aroused strong repercussions. Thousands of Chinese marched in New York, the Brooklyn Bridge, the name of solidarity with the Chinese police. There Chinese believed verdict unfair, because it is the Chinese and Peter Leung made a scapegoat.

In the United States, police shot frequent cases of blacks. But what more cases before the white police officers were exempt from criminal prosecution, the jury sentenced Liang Peter made this based on?

Peter Leung case itself is not complicated. November 20, 2014 at 11 am, 28-year-old newly recruited police officers on duty in the beam Peter Brooklyn in a government low-cost housing, because abnormal ring and heard the shot, the bullet hit the wall on the rebound accidentally hit just after the stairs from the lower level of African-American youth Gregory, causing his death. Disputes is whether this was an accident or manslaughter. Prosecutors believe that Peter beam direction abnormal sounds of fire, no casualties consider possible consequences. And Peter Leung said he was panicked, subconsciously touched the trigger, not intentionally shoot.

Although the grand jury has made a manslaughter verdict, but Peter is not the beam that there is no chance. Because US law requires a judge has the final adjudication, can overthrow the grand jury.

Peter's mother Liang Fang He said he felt very sad for the verdict, suffered a major blow 彼得什 beam tends to self-mutilation. American observers 杜剑锋 also been concerned about this case, he believes, which includes Chinese, including the Asian limited participation in political life is not irrelevant. Du Jianfeng indicated US law equality before the law, but in particular the social life, the rights of an ethnic group to fight to make their own sound. There is a Chinese saying, cry of the child milk. In American society, can be described as the very image of competing interests between the minority on. Some Latinos and blacks, in addition to the number of multiple, more often they will be very motivated to ask to fight for their rights. But Asians always thought, I can do their own thing, and political affairs including all aspects of social life Public participation is relatively small, it led easily overlooked.

Currently, the US presidential election was conducted in the bustling, Du Jianfeng noted in the statement of the candidates in the debate, both in the positive attitude to safeguard the interests of minority African-American and Latino, and Asian little mention of . Du Jianfeng think, not only because of the small number of Asians sake, partly because many of the Asian vote, when that is not their own relationship with this thing, so similar to the case when the beam Peter appeared in society, there is no people you speak. In the case of the US judicial system, the district attorney in charge of the case have their own political aspirations, the career to be a step forward, he also needs the support of the community, need the support of the voters, but if Asians in this regard under the situation is not very positive, it is in a relatively passive situation.