10,000 rally in support of officer

Former New York policeman was convicted of manslaughter

About 10,000 protesters, many of them Chinese-American, rallied in New York on Saturday in support of a former police officer convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed man in a darkened stairwell in a public housing building.

The protest in Brooklyn over ex-officer Peter Liang's manslaughter conviction in the 2014 shooting of Akai Gurley was one of about 30 taking place around the US, organizers said. About 2,000 people marched in Philadelphia, according to Philly.com, and about 150 gathered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, according to The Ann Arbor News.