The NYPD Officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in a housing project did not tell his boss or call a 911 operator about the incident for more than six minutes, according to a report in the New York Daily News.
But as Akai Gurley lay dying, the cops were busy texting their union representative in those vital moments, the paper reported, citing unnamed sources.
The text messages showed that Officer Liang, who fired the single fatal shot in a darkened stairwell, and Officer Landau didn’t even know the building’s exact address.
The two men were not supposed to be doing a patrol in the stairways of the Louis Pink Houses, according to the Daily News sources, who said Deputy Inspector Miguel Iglesias disliked “vertical” patrols and preferred that his officers patrol outside the housing-project’s buildings.
