“Authorities say an unarmed 28-year-old man coming out of his girlfriend’s Brooklyn apartment was fatally shot by a rookie cop in a ‘dimly lit stairwell’ in what was likely an accident. Police Commissioner William Bratton says the officer appears to have fired accidentally. Officers were patrolling the halls of the … complex … Thursday night when they encountered Akai Gurley. The rookie officer fired one shot. Gurley was hit in the chest. … His girlfriend … tells the Daily News … Gurley did nothing wrong and the shooting was unprompted. Bratton called the victim ‘a total innocent’ who was not engaged in any criminal activity at the time of the shooting … [and] called it a ‘very unfortunate tragedy.'”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-shot-dead-by-cop-in-brooklyn-in-apparent-accident-nypd/
If you or I did this, they’d call it “manslaughter,” and we’d go to prison.
Can anyone explain how a cop can “accidentally” shoot someone if his gun is in its holster? Doesn’t the cop have to draw, aim, and pull the trigger? Aren’t these intentional actions? The authorities obviously are falling over themselves calling this an “accident” so the cop won’t be prosecuted.
Manslaughter is a crime, so please, cut the b.s. and file charges. We civilians are tired of cops using us for target practice and getting away with it.
