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Peter Liang arrives to the courtroom for his sentencing in New York, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. The former police officer convicted in the accidental shooting death of an unarmed man in a darkened stairwell was spared prison time Tuesday, and a judge reduced his manslaughter conviction to a lesser charge. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

No prison time for NYPD officer in stairwell shooting case

By Colleen Long - Associated Press

Protestors hold up signs outside the courthouse before the arraignment of New York City rookie police officer Peter Liang Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, in New York. Liang, who fired into a darkened stairwell last November at a Brooklyn public housing complex, accidentally killing 28-year-old Akai Gurley, was indicted by a grand jury in the shooting. He surrendered Wednesday to face criminal charges. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)A dozen protesters stood outside the courthouse before the arraignment of Peter Liang in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Liang, a New York City police officer who fired into a darkened stairwell at a housing complex, killing a man who had been waiting for an elevator, surrendered Wednesday to face criminal charges. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

NYC officer charged with manslaughter in stairwell shooting

By Colleen Long - Associated Press

Melissa Butler, who was with unarmed Akai Gurley when he was shot and killed by a New York City Police officer, in a pitch-dark, public housing stairwell, attends a news conference outside the office of the Brooklyn District Attorney, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. State Assemblyman-elect Charles Barron told reporters he thinks the shooting of unarmed Akai Gurley by a New York City Police officer, in a pitch-dark stairwell of a public housing complex, warrants a charge of criminally negligent homicide. Butler was with Gurley when he was shot. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Officer indicted in killing of unarmed man in NYC stairwell

By Colleen Long - Associated Press