Defense Blames “Defective” Glock In NYPD Shooting Death

By Bob Owens

Defense attorneys for NYPD officer Peter Liang, on trail for fatally and negligently shooting a man to death in a Brooklyn stairwell, attempted to blame the NYPD’s training and the gun itself as they attempted to excuse Liang for the death of Akai Gurley.

Liang and his partner were entering the pitch-black eighth-floor stairwell when Liang, who had his gun drawn, accidentally fired one round that ricocheted off the seventh-floor landing wall and struck Gurley, 28, in the chest. The shot killed him.

Brown asked the same questions of Detective Nathan Garcia, an officer with the Police Academy, who testified that Liang had been in attendance at all firearms training during his time at the academy in 2013.

“Were you ever instructed that when you approached the roof landing, you should have your firearm out, finger alongside the trigger?” Brown asked Garcia. “Yes,” the cop replied.

Garcia also testified cops are taught to beware of a possible “ambush” on vertical patrols. Officers begin vertical patrols at the roof landing and make their way down the stairwell to the lobby.

Liang’s bagged 9mm Glock was entered into evidence Thursday.

Defense attorneys have argued the gun was faulty, saying in opening statements that Liang’s finger was …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms