Down a Dark Stairwell

Apr 12, 2021 on PBS at 10:00 PM

Summary

On a fall day in 2014, Peter Liang, a Chinese American police officer, shot and killed an innocent, unarmed Black man named Akai Gurley. Unfolding in the dark stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project, the shooting inflamed the residents of New York Ci... (more)ty and thrust two marginalized communities into the uneven criminal justice system together.

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