A street renaming ceremony took place in Brooklyn’s East New York neighborhood to commemorate Akai Gurley, a Black man who was shot and killed by a New York Police Department officer. In 2014, Gurley, 28, was fatally shot by rookie officer Peter Liang who was patrolling the Pink Houses project in New York, according to Liberation News. He was unarmed at the time of his death, the Los Angeles Times reports . The officer was patrolling an unlit stairwell in Brooklyn when he fired his weapon and a bullet ricocheted off a wall, wounding Gurley. Liang and his partner were accused of carrying out an illegal vertical patrol, where officers descend from the top of the building to each floor. Liang, then 27, was eventually convicted of manslaughter as a result of his actions, L.A. Times reports. The ceremony took place near the Pink Houses project on Nov. 20, which marked the seventh anniversary of Gurley’s death. The street in his honor will now be named Akai Gurley Way. The event also...