New York quiet after latest police shooting victim's funeral

Mourners in New York held a funeral on a rain-soaked Saturday for a black man shot dead by a white patrol officer, as a sympathy protest in California turned violent when masked demonstrators smashed windows and threw objects at police.

The shooting of Akai Gurley, 28, in a stairwell at a Brooklyn public housing project last month was the latest in a series of killings that have outraged protesters, who see a pattern of excessive force being used by law enforcement against African-Americans.

Decisions by grand juries to return no indictments against officers involved in the incidents have rekindled a national debate over race relations in the United States.

The district attorney in the New York City borough of Brooklyn said on Friday a grand jury would consider charges against Peter Liang, the officer who shot Gurley.

Police have said Liang may have accidentally discharged his gun.

Mourners in Brooklyn, gathered at a Baptist church to remember Gurley, the father of a 2-year-old girl. Afterwards about 75 people gathered for a vigil and brief march in his memory.Clinton Jordan, a 40-year-old security administrator, from the Louis H. Pink housing project, where Gurley was shot, said residents of the project felt a mixture of anger and resignation after the shooting.