Another NYC Horror Story. Here we go again, another Grand Jury.
The Guardian:
An officer involved in a fatal shooting in a Brooklyn project texted his union representative rather than immediately calling for medical assistance, according to a report in the New York Daily News.
As rookie officer Peter Liang and his partner entered a darkened stairwell of a Pink Houses high-rise on the night of 20 November, his gun discharged and a bullet struck the torso of 28-year-old Akai Gurley, who was with his girlfriend on the seventh-floor landing.
Quoting a number of unnamed law enforcement sources, the Daily News said that after the incident neither Liang nor his partner, Shaun Landau, could be reached by their superiors for more than six minutes. The New York police department (NYPD) reportedly learned of the incident from a neighbor’s 911 call, after which it attempted and failed to reach Liang and Landau.
NY Daily News:
Rookie NYPD officer who shot Akai Gurley in Brooklyn stairwell was texting union rep as victim lay dying
In the six and a half minutes after Peter Liang discharged a single bullet that struck Gurley, 28, he and his partner couldn't be reached, sources told the Daily News. And instead of calling for help for the dying man, Liang was texting his union representative. What's more, the sources said, the pair of officers weren't supposed to be patrolling the stairways of the Pink Houses that night.
In the critical moments after the Nov. 20 shooting, the cops’ commanding officer and an emergency operator — responding to a 911 call from a neighbor and knowing the duo was in the area — tried to reach them in vain, sources said.
It's getting to the point that I don't even want to read the news anymore.
See the NY Daily News article for more and pics of the bloody staircase.