My thoughts about Peter Liang’s case:
Training and Law Requirement:
1) All police and people who applied hand gun carrying permits have same training: you can pull the hand gun trigger to open fire only when your life or other people’s lives are threatened and will be killed. In another wards a person who wants to kill you immediately and he or she has the ability to do so. Not like a girl said she wants to kill you and slap your face with her hand, you cannot kill her or someone said he or she wants to kill next week or next time, you have time to tell police not to kill them;
2) Never put your finger on gun’s trigger unless you want to fire the gun;
3) To avoid miss fire, now handguns are built more difficult for first shot, you have to use more power and have to pull trigger back a little bit further, after that the rest following shots will be easy.
According to these three things, miss fire is unlikely.
He is a police officer and his life and his partner’s life were not threatened.
He and his partner didn’t help that person who got his gunshot immediately instead looking for bullets even pass by the wounded person and his girlfriend (if it is true), he is guilty, responsible for this wrongdoing. His partner is guilty and his partner was fired by NYPD.
Second degree murder is kill some not on purpose or not premeditated killing.
In America (or western countries), court process a case is guilty or not guilty fully depends on jury, a total 12 jurors, I am luck, I was one of them but in other case, not in this case. After prosecutors and defendant lawyers presented, on court, all witnesses, evidences, excuses, situation and conditions, special circumstances, yes or no, truth or false. The guilty or not guilty are in jury’s hands, not in court judge’s hand, not by policy department, not by White house. Judge will determine the sentence by book, the sentence for same crime always has a range, like Perter Liang’s case up to 15 years.
What to do:
1) Appeal with good lawyers;
2) Small group Chinese stands up in front the court and in front NYPD. |