EXCLUSIVE: Rookie NYPD officer who shot Akai Gurley in Brooklyn stairwell was texting union rep
Source: NY Daily News
While Akai Gurley was dying in a darkened stairwell at a Brooklyn housing development, the cop who fired the fatal bullet was texting his union representative, sources told the Daily News.
Right after rookie cop Peter Liang discharged a single bullet that struck Gurley, 28, he and his partner Shaun Landau were incommunicado for more than six and a half minutes, sources said Thursday.
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.
“That’s showing negligence,” said a law enforcement source of the pair’s decision to text their union rep before making a radio call for help.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/exclusive-texted-union-rep-akai-gurley-lay-dying-article-1.2034219
This case is currently being investigated by the new DA for Brooklyn.
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... to call off the police. 
that called 911 for help when the police stopped them because the (Black male) passenger (allegedly) did not have his seal belt on ... during the call, the woman said they were afraid to get out of the car because how aggressive the police were acting. She, then, provided a verbal narration to the video her son was taking, as the police at the scene broke out the passenger window, tased and drug the passenger out of the vehicle (tasing him again).
I wonder what happened/is happening in this case? The Eric Garner case shows that video (with a clear recording of the victim) clearly is not enough ... maybe a video with contemporaneous narration is enough? 
Just trying to understand the rules here.
... the raging roller coaster hormone levels inside the Momma's body. She had just recently had that baby and most women cry like a baby for no reason at all, and in this instance she cried. It broke my heart to hear her weep in such grief and fear, and boy did I want to go thru the monitor to get to those GD pigs! 
It's true, and should be required viewing for all busybodies who call the cops on anything that moves on the sidewalk in front of their house.
Me? I stay as far away from them SOBs as I can. And I've taught my kids the same. I sort of have a deal with cops: They don't call on me and I don't call on them.
Cops are like antibiotics: stay away from them, and when you're on your death bed, they might do you some good.
Merry Christmas. 
