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Source: Reuters
Partner of N.Y. police officer convicted in shooting is fired
NEW YORK | BY JOSEPH AX
A New York City police officer was fired on Friday less than 24 hours after his partner was found guilty at trial for the 2014 inadvertent fatal shooting of an unarmed black man.
The terminated officer, Shaun Landau, had testified for the prosecution during the trial of his partner, Peter Liang, who was convicted of manslaughter and official misconduct in Brooklyn on Thursday.
Liang fired his gun in a darkened public housing stairwell on Nov. 20, 2014 as the two officers began a so-called "vertical patrol." The bullet ricocheted off a wall and struck Akai Gurley, 28, who had been walking one floor below with his girlfriend.
Neither officer offered medical assistance to Gurley once they realized he had been hit by the shot. Both testified that they felt unqualified to do so because of poor CPR training at the police academy.
Landau avoided criminal charges by agreeing to testify under an immunity agreement. The police department said he had been fired at the discretion of Commissioner Bill Bratton.
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Human101948
(3,457 posts)Fact: In the first 24 days of 2015, police in the US fatally shot more people than police did in England and Wales, combined, over the past 24 years.
Fact: Police in the US have shot and killed more people in every week this year than are reportedly shot and killed by German police in an entire year.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/the-counted-police-killings-us-vs-other-countries
JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)We have police and more police because of crime and the social conditions associated with it.
I'll predict crime in Europe will rise and more police agencies over there will arm up.
Human101948
(3,457 posts)Your precognition is amazing!
iandhr
(6,852 posts)However it was still a screw up on every level.
At the top, the NYPD brass policy thought it was a good idea to send a rookie officers to patrol one of the most violent housing projects in a darkened area. Common sense would tell you that it seems like a recipe for a tragedy.
Aka Gurley was in the wrong place at the wrong time and Liang seem to fire (I am guessing) out of panic.
This sentence it quite telling "Neither officer offered medical assistance to Gurley once they realized he had been hit by the shot. Both testified that they felt unqualified to do so because of poor CPR training at the police academy."
I hope that is fixed.
Logical
(22,457 posts)alarimer
(16,245 posts)I know he was saving his own ass in the process, but at least one cop got convicted.