Akai Gurley's family outraged after Brooklyn DA Kenneth Thompson recommends house arrest, no jail ti

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Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson

Anguished relatives lashed out Wednesday when Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson said the cop who killed Akai Gurley shouldn’t spend so much as a day in prison.

The frustrated family was further infuriated that Thompson didn’t even have the courtesy to tell them he was recommending that a judge give fired cop Peter Liang only 500 hours of community service, five years of probation and six months of home confinement.

A jury convicted Liang of manslaughter last month for the November 2014 shooting of Gurley in a darkened Pink Houses stairwell in East New York.

“I call it a modern-day lynching,” said Gurley’s aunt Hertencia Petersen. “It’s like killing Akai over and over again.”

Petersen said Gurley’s mother, Sylvia Palmer, was reeling from Thompson’s recommendation — and the fact that she heard about it from the media.

“She got a phone call after the news went out,” Petersen said. “Just a disgrace to Akai. No respect that the media and public knew before the family.

“His blood is on Ken Thompson’s hands, on Peter Liang’s hands. His blood is on the entire justice system’s hands,” Petersen said.

Liang, who was fired immediately after a jury convicted him on Feb. 11, faces up to 15 years in prison when he’s sentenced April 14.

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1. He needs to go to prison n/t

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2. Immediately if not sooner!