Fwd: Position On Officer Peter Liang's Arraignment

[Kemin Zhou]

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From: S. B. Woo <s...@80-20.org>
Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:40 AM
Subject: Position On Officer Peter Liang's Arraignment
To: ke...@ece.lsu.edu

80-20 will fight  for YOU & Officer Peter Liang     Have you heard about the arraignment against Officer Peter Liang of the  NYPD?   80-20 has received many emails from Asian Ams pleading for us to look into this matter.     After a Board meeting, 80-2O Initiative takes the following positions:  1) It shall not let Officer Peter Liang be the victim of political scapegoating, if      indeed we conclude this is the case, after our thorough fact-finding.  2) It advises Asian Ams. not to join or participate in petitions and movements     that only expose our community's political ignorance/immaturity which makes      us even weaker.   Take the recent White House petitions  as examples.  The     initiators and signers are great people who yearned for justice.  80-20 thanks     them and shares their goal.  However, those petitions ignore the legal      environment in the USA.  Keep in mind that the President of the U.S. has no      legal authority over an indictment in Brooklyn.  Nor is Pres. Obama likely to      make a statement on an ongoing legal case.  In America, we need to practice      politics the American way.       Remember the Jimmy Kimmel "kill every Chinese" episode?  80-20 got the first       and ONLY written apology from ABC soon after the event.  Weeks after a       White House petition, which asked Pres. Obama to interfere, had reached       100,000 signers, and long after the matter has been satisfactorily resolved,       there was a White House statement on this matter.  Did anyone remember      what was said?  (Please note that this was not a reflection on the White House,        but a reflection on the silliness of that petition.  President Obama is not the        equivalent of a Chinese Emperor.  He has no authority over ABC, a private       enterprise.)      "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"                                                                                         - George Santayana.       However, if there were a petition to 80-20 to help Office Liang and it quickly        gathers 100,000 signatures, it would be much more effective.  Why?          Because 80-20 would be greatly empowered by the apparent yearning for         its leadership, thereby enabling it to do even more.  3)  80-20 will strive to create a win-win situation to ensure justice for Officer Liang.        This part of 80-20's effort requires tactical maneuver in the future.  Hence,       we'll only summarize the essence.  The indictment of Officer Liang could be       partially politically motivated.  Hence 80-20 will act with politics in mind      as well, while stressing fact finding.  Our aim is to create a win-win situation      for District Attorney Thompson of Brooklyn, the African American community,       and Officer Peter Liang, while upholding justice! 4) 80-20 will be doing much fact findings and fact checkings in matters* shown      below my name .   I encourage all to volunteer your effort to help.                          Forward this e-newsletter!                              Step by Step We Will Strengthen Ourselves!      WANT SERVICE?  Pay for it, although I and many others have worked for YOU for free for the last 16 years.                                       DONATE to SELF till it hurts. S.B. Woo, a volunteer President, 80-20 Asian Am. National Educational Foundation www.80-20EF.org Help us spread the word, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter ! *  Facts that 80-20 is very interested in verifying:  i) Were Liang and his partner explicitly ordered not to do vertical patrolling in that building by their boss? ii) Had Liang admitted that his finger was on the trigger?  Or, did he state that his finger was along the     gun barrel but slipped when his right shoulder hit a door? iii) Is there any physical evidence that the bullet hit the wall and ricocheted?  Has the physical evidence     been protected and/or photographed? iv) Did Liang and his partner call the Police Union first and 4 minutes later call 911?  v) Some articles describe the stairwell as being "pitch black."  Is it true?  The jury could easily be      convinced that Officer Liang would feel threatened in this dangerous public housing project area      where the stairwell is pitch black. Would it then have been reasonable for him to keep the finger       on the trigger? vi) What other police shooting or assault cases has the Brooklyn DA prosecuted recently? vII) What role did Liang's partner play in this incident?  Is he under investigation or being disciplined?          80-20 Mission Statement Frequently Asked Questions 80-20's Top 10 Accomplishment, published 3 years ago.                                    Copyright © 2014. All Rights Reserved.

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Kemin Zhou
Mark and Carolyn C. Guidry  Professor
Roy Paul Daniels Distinguished Professor
Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Louisiana State University
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