NEW YORK POST
By Shirley Ng
February 21, 2016
司法系统总是辜负亚裔美国人。
我们都记得太清楚在1982年被残酷杀害的陈果仁- 一名27岁的华裔男子在底特律附近被两名暴徒所杀，理由是仅仅被认为是日本人，所以需要对Motown的低迷而负责。凶手们安然逃脱了实质上的罪责而逍遥法外。
陆军士兵, 在曼哈顿唐人街长大的Danny Chen，，一贯性地被殴打和骚扰，终导致了他的自杀。折磨他的那些人却仅仅得到了轻微的惩罚。
现在，这个社区又一次成为了受害者 – 这次经手的是布鲁克林地区检察官肯·汤普森和他的办公室对于纽约市警察局警员梁彼得不公正的起诉。
完全可以肯定：纽约的亚裔社区对于这样的审判不公会更加团结和愤怒。
根据对于法律的合理诠释 – 和常识 – 梁的定罪为二级过失杀人罪是错误的，应该被推翻。这是一个不幸的悲惨的事故，为此，该处罚不符合犯罪 – 这真的不是一种犯罪，只是一个可怕的意外。
梁和同时也是新晋警员的搭档在东纽约Pink Houses黑暗的楼梯里，他的枪走火了，导致了无辜的受害者阿凯格利的死亡。
梁从未有过任何意向去杀害。他甚至没有看到格利。
然而不知何故，汤普森和陪审员们未能把握这个最基本的，不争的事实。
纽约的亚裔社区不禁把意外致死的柯利的悲剧，同在Staten岛上被结束了生命的Eric Garner杀人案相对比。Garner由于纽约市警察局官员Daniel Pantaleo勒脖遭到死亡 – 在光天化日之下Garner尖叫着，“我不能呼吸！”
Garner的杀害同从在黑暗中的意外枪击而至子弹飞弹至墙导致的格利的死亡形成了鲜明对比。
然而，Garner的凶手，Pantaleo，自由了，而梁，从没有举枪瞄准任何人， 会在下个月的判决中面对可能长达至15年的牢狱。
怎么可能是这样的？为什么会是梁，这个新晋的亚裔警察，可能要为一次悲惨的事故坐牢，而其他人甚至从来没有被指控呢？
因为它是一个简单的政治选择。
汤普森用梁满足了由于警局不公对待而导致长期积怨的他选区的一部分 – 仿佛用梁来做替罪羊就能莫名其妙地抹去以往由纽约市警察局犯下的所有罪孽。
对汤普森来说这次起诉也是一个政治胜利，因为它似乎没有烦扰强大的警察工会，他们也未对梁的被草率的对待而进行太多的争取。
所以地区检查官汤普森成就了他所有的政治目标 – 唯一的成本是梁的自由和其对于纽约的亚裔社区并不那么掩饰的迅息，你们的委屈并不重要。
无论你的姓是钱，是陈，或是梁，亚裔美国人早就被告知，他们的痛苦和屈辱不标注。如今在布鲁克林法庭已得到确认。
Shirley Ng is a freelance writer and Manhattn Chinatown native.
特别感谢远在加拿大的美女为挺梁文务翻译！
NEW YORK POST
Biased DA, city scapegoat the Asian-American community
By Shirley Ng
February 21, 2016 | 7:01am
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Officer Peter Liang and District Attorney Ken ThompsonPhoto: Gregory P. Mango (2)
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More than 10,000 protesters rallying in support of ex-cop Peter Liang
The justice system has always failed Asian-Americans.
We remember all too well the brutal 1982 slaying of Vincent Chin — a 27-year-old Chinese-American man killed near Detroit by two thugs who believed he was Japanese and thus responsible for Motown’s downturn. His killers got off virtually scot-free.
Army Pvt. Danny Chen, who grew up in Manhattan’s Chinatown, was systematically beaten and harassed, driving him to suicide. His tormentors were barely given slaps on the wrist.
And now, the community has been victimized again — this time by Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson and his office’s unjust prosecution of NYPD Officer Peter Liang.
Make no mistake about it: New York’s Asian-American community couldn’t be more united and outraged by this miscarriage of justice.
By any reasonable reading of the law — and common sense — Liang’s conviction for second-degree manslaughter was wrong and should be struck down. It was a tragic accident, for which this punishment doesn’t fit the crime — which really wasn’t a crime at all, only a horrible mishap.
Liang and a fellow rookie were in a dark staircase at the Pink Houses in East New York when his gun went off, killing innocent victim Akai Gurley.
Liang never had the intent to kill. He never even saw Gurley.
Group of women holding poster during rally in support of Peter Liang.Photo: Zuma Wire
Yet somehow, Thompson and jurors failed to grasp this most basic, undisputed fact.
New York’s Asian-American community can’t help comparing Gurley’s tragic, accidental killing to the homicide that took the life of Eric Garner on Staten Island. Garner died from a chokehold by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo — in broad daylight as Garner screamed, “I can’t breathe!”
Garner’s slaying stands in stark contrast to Gurley’s death from an unintended gunshot in the dark that ricocheted off a wall.
Yet Garner’s killer, Pantaleo, is walking free while Liang, who never aimed his gun at anyone, is due to be sentenced for up to 15 years behind bars next month.
How can this be? Why is Liang, this rookie Asian-American cop, possibly going to prison for a tragic accident while others are never even charged?
Because it was an easy political choice.
Thompson used Liang to satisfy a segment of his constituency with long-standing grievances about police mistreatment — as if scapegoating Liang somehow erases all sins ever committed by the NYPD.
The prosecution was also a political winner for Thompson because it didn’t seem to faze the powerful Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, which didn’t put up much of a fight as Liang was railroaded.
So DA Thompson achieved all his political goals — with the only costs being Liang’s freedom and furthering the not-so-thinly-veiled message to New York’s Asian-American community that its grievances don’t matter.
Whether the name is Chin, Chen or Liang, Asian-Americans have long been told that their pain and humiliation don’t register. And now that’s been affirmed in a Brooklyn courtroom.
Shirley Ng is a freelance writer and Manhattan Chinatown native.
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