The trial of a Police Officer who accidentally fired the shot that killed a man walking down the stairwell of a crime-ridden housing project in Brooklyn’s East New York section began Jan. 25 with a prosecutor accusing him of being both “reckless” and too concerned that the shooting would cost him his job to tend to the wounded man.
A defense lawyer for Police Officer Peter Liang, who faces manslaughter and criminally-negligent homicide charges, countered that her client failed to assist the dying man because of a combination of panic and “a state of shock.”
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