An NYPD Police Academy instructor has been stripped of he✱r badge and gun over allegations that she failed to properly teach lifesaving techniques — resulting in two cops standing by and doing nothing after one shot dead an unarmed man, sources said Tuesday.
Officer Melissa Brown, 35, was placed on desk duty pending further investigation and po🐼ssible disciplinary proceedings, sources said.
A probe by the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau identified Brown as the instructor who was responsible for teaching CPR to recruits including since-fired cops Peter Liang and Shaun Landau, s𝓡ources said.
Liang was convicted of manslaughter last month in the slaying of Akai Gurley, who in November 2014 was shot in the heart when Liang accidentally fired his pistol inside a Brooklyn housing-project stairwell♒.
Neither Liang nor Land♕a♑u tried to resuscitate Gurley, according to testimony from the victim’s girlfriend, and both cops on the witness stand this year blamed a lack of training.
Landau testified that he spent “less than two minutes” practicing on a CPR mannequin at the academy and was given both t𝔍he questions and answers before a written certification exam.
Liang likewise said he was only “sort of” trained, “didn’t really spend any time with the dummy” and got the answersꦛ to the writteꩵn test before taking it.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has said IAB began investigating tꦑhe allegations “literally within a half-hour o🍃f that testimony.”
“Under no circumstances will we tolerate any instructor in 🥂the New York City Police Department short-circuitingꦯ the process for this instruction,” Bratton said last month.
During the probe, investigators spoke with cops w✨ho couldn’t even recall Brown’s name.
Brown was hired by🃏 the NYPD in 2006 and 🅷made $111,698 last year.
Brown refused to commeꦐnt before driving off from her Bronx home with a young girl late Tuesday afternoon.
Additional reporting by Frank Rosario