The trial of former NYPD officer Peter Liang began this week and more information is being made available to the public. Liang, who was patrolling Brooklyn’s Pink Houses with his partnerShaun Landau, fatally shot Akai Gurley as he was walking up a dimly lit stairwell in November 2014. At the time of the incident, New York City was in an uproar over the killing of Staten Island native Eric Garner at the hands of the NYPD just months prior.
Today (January 26), the 911 call placed by neighbor Melissa Lopez for Gurley’s girlfriend Melissa Butler was played for the courtroom and it revealed that the EMS dispatch gave Lopez CPR instructions for Butler, while Liang and his partner stood by idly, contemplating what to do next. Lopez testified that neither officer assisted in her and Butler’s efforts to revive Gurley.
