NYPD officer testifies at Peter Liang manslaughter trial
As Akai Gurley lay dying from a gunshot wound in a housing project stairwell one night in 2014, his girlfriend, a 911 caller and a medical technician giving instructions by phone frantically worked to try to save his life.
By contrast, the officer who fired the fatal shot, Peter Liang, and his partner had other concerns, according to the partner. Liang first fretted he’d be fired for shooting his gun by accident before the two rookie officers wasted the next four minutes bickering like school children about which one should follow rules requiring them to report the discharge to a supervisor, the partner told a Brooklyn jury on Tuesday.
“I told him to call and he told me to call,” Officer Shawn Landau testified at Liang’s manslaughter trial.