Cop: I couldn’t save shooting victim because NYPD helped me cheat on CPR test

New York Post ^ | February 4, 2016 | Emily Saul

[Forgotten Amendments]

The partner of rookie cop Peter Liang told Brooklyn jurors Thursday that he himself was unqualified to resuscitate the man Liang accidently shot in a housing-project stairwell — because the Police Academy lets ­recruits cheat on their CPR- certification tests.

So he did nothing to help the dying victim.

“How much time [during training] did you spend on a mannequin?” the partner, Shaun Landau, was asked by Liang’s defense lawyer, ­Robert E. Brown.

“Not sure,” Landau ad­mitted.

“Less than two minutes?” the lawyer asked.

“Yes,” Landau answered.

Jurors learned Thursday that nothing could have saved unarmed Akai Gurley from the bullet that ricocheted off a stairwell wall and pierced his heart, killing him in minutes.

Still, both Landau and ­Liang failed to try to resuscitate the 28-year-old Gurley as he bled to death in East New York’s Pink Houses in November 2014, instead leaving his hysterical girlfriend to do chest compressions, jurors were told.

“But you’re certified in CPR?” Brown asked Landau.

“Yes,” the partner answered nervously.

“And at that moment you didn’t know what to do?”

“Yes,” Landau answered.

Landau, the star prosecution witness, who testified against his partner under an immunity deal, could wind up helping Liang.

Landau said the NYPD’s CPR training was so lax, ­instructors handed out the questions and answers in advance of the written certification exam.

“You were fed the questions and the answers?” Brown asked. “Correct,” Landau replied.

A defense witness, Officer John Funk, later backed Landau’s claim, telling jurors CPR training was equally lacking when he and Liang attended the same 2013 academy class. Some 300 ­recruits crowded into an auditorium with just eight mannequins, and everyone passed, Funk said.

[TXSearcher]

CPR wouldn’t have helped and if anything, may have made it worse, with each compression further shredding cardiac tissue on the fragments. This dude was dead from the second he was hit, just took a few minutes to realize it.

You are probably correct...

[HiTech RedNeck]

The claim of excuse here, however, was a heart hit.

One can’t always tell, the bleeding can occur internally.

Still until medical expertise arrived and deemed otherwise, they were obligated to assume the best. No excuse for that, which is why the testimony occurred.

[Forgotten Amendments]

The point is, they left the girlfriend to frantically pound on doors while they called their union rep. They wouldn’t even call 911 (dead men tell no tales?).

Just sick.

[HiTech RedNeck]

There seems often to be a nod-wink card passed out among what we used to know as public servants.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

For crying out loud how dense do you have to be to flunk CPR/First Aid?

I would train guys straight from the production line, half of them had trouble getting a dozen bars in a box and none of them flunked.

It is mostly common sense and not panicking.