In their final appeal to the jury Tuesday, Brooklyn prosecutors clashed with the defense on whether a rookie police officer’s single fatal shot in a dark public housing stairwell veered into criminal recklessness.
A day after Officer Peter Liang emotionally recalled how his gun “just went off” after hearing a “quick sound” in a pitch black stairwell, Liang’s lawyer said prosecutors were merely “pounding the table” because they could not prove Liang’s culpability.
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