The Chinese social media platform WeChat, a.k.a. Weixin, was allowed by the Chinese authorities to post comments by tens of thousands of people, spanning more than 40 cities on the same day, protesting the sentence awarded to Peter Liang, a Chinese American rookie cop who fatally shot an unarmed African American man, Akai Gurley, in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 2014. China's state-run CCTV, which often avoids showing demonstrations, on February 21, 2016, devoted numerous segments throughout the day to the U.S. gatherings. The state-run Xinhua sent reporters in at least four U.S. cities to various rallies, and the official China Daily featured the New York gathering on its front page. An op-ed in the state-owned Global Times took the opportunity to highlight inequality in America and, calling Chinese Americans "a model group in the U.S.", said "the obvious double standards toward different races has made people furious". It added that Chinese Americans "work hard, pay taxes on time, they don't miss a credit card payment, and they place more value than other Americans do on marriage, parenthood and family. However, a majority of them are not active in politics and have relatively low voting rates. This means they are easily overlooked or discriminated against."