US police officer tried for manslaughter
A New York police officer opened fire without justification, fatally shooting an African American man and then started arguing with his partner instead of helping the dying man, a prosecutor says.
Rookie NYPD Officer Peter Liang recklessly fired his gun into a darkened stairwell, and then “stood there whining and moaning about how he could get fired,” Prosecutor Marc Fliedner said Monday at the manslaughter trial.
The incident happened on November 20, 2014, when Liang shot 28-year-old Akai Gurley, who was unarmed while walking downstairs in a Brooklyn building.
Liang "fired for no reason" and then "wasted precious time arguing with his partner," as he was concerned that he would be fired for discharging his weapon, Fliedner said.
Gurley (pictured above) and his friend Melissa Butler, whose apartment they were leaving, "were doing absolutely nothing wrong," Fliedner said, noting the poor man died simply because his path crossed the officer.
Following the shooting, a neighbor called for an ambulance and the dispatch caller instructed Butler to perform CPR on the victim, he noted.
Liang and the other officer were "nowhere to be seen," Fliedner said, noting even when he appeared, he "walked around" Gurley and did nothing to help with medical assistance even though the officer had been previously trained to do so.
“A police officer — this police officer — and he never even knelt down and try to fix what he’d done,” Fliedner said.
He could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, assault, reckless endangerment and two counts of official misconduct.
Large-scale demonstrations were held across the country in 2014 after a series of high-profile incidents of white police officers killing unarmed African-American men, including Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio; Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York and Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina.
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