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

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http://nypost.com/2016/02/04/partner-reveals-why-he-didnt-try-to-resuscitate-man-shot-by-nypd/

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.