Off-duty NYPD pig kills a Blk man in front of his GF & 3 kids in a road rage incident. Update: Vid +
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Exactly. In this case dude Happened to be a cop, but Small didn't know that.. he just 'ran up on a ? ' for cutting him off
“He could have rolled up his window, he could have driven away,” Wareham said. “He did not have to shoot him.”
“Take off. Roll up your window. Avoid any kind of confrontation,” Barron said of the off-duty cop, comments echoed by the family’s attorney. “For him to discharge his weapon three times and take one’s life over some kind of verbal confrontation is outrageous. We are demanding justice.”
I dont know...this the part that makes it seem like what the police are saying is true. Like they wanted dude to be able to just walk up to him and start swinging on him and traffic and the pig should've just took the L and drove off. Sad situation either way and speaks even more to the mentality of cops ...get punched a few times and then immediately fear that you're on the verge of death (so you claim) and start firing off shots.
Exactly.
The fact that the family isn't disputing that he was punching the cop through the window leads me to believe that ........well........he was indeed punching the cop through the window.
In which case, this shooting shouldn't be lumped in with situations in which cops have shot and killed black people unprovoked.
Of course the cop is abusing his power and Firearm and should do time for it, but at the end of the day dudes responsibility is to his wife and 2 children who were present.. he wasnt living for his family in that moment -
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ag-probes-video-victim-delrawn-small-punching-off-duty-cop-article-1.2704876N.Y. Attorney General probes video of Delrawn Small being shot by off-duty cop within seconds of approaching officer's car
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office is reviewing a damning video that shows a 37-year-old man getting fatally shot by an off-duty cop within seconds of approaching the officer’s car — contradicting earlier accounts that the cop was defending himself, officials said.
The surveillance video, which the attorney general’s office acquired earlier this week, shows Delrawn Small approaching Police Officer Wayne Isaacs’ 2002 Nissan Altima on Atlantic Ave. and Bradford St. in East New York, Brooklyn. The confrontation happened just after midnight July 4.
Small buckled over and grabbed at a passing car within seconds of approaching Issacs’ driver side window. He stumbled off and falls to the ground in between two parked cars.
Moments later, Isaacs, also 37, got out of his car. He tucked what appeared to be a gun under his shirt as he looked at Small’s body, according to the video.
Small’s outraged relatives said Friday night the footage was proof that the killing was not justified.
“The video is as clear as day. That everything they told us from the very beginning was a lie. Was a lie,” Small’s brother Victor Dempsey said. “Every single thing. And I don’t know how to feel now. All I know is my brother was murdered. Point blank period murdered.”
The victim’s sister, Victoria Davis, said she choked back tears watching Small stagger and fall to the ground.
“To just watch him stumble from car to car, knowing that he suffered, knowing that he was afraid, that was hard,” she said. “That’s not a video that I would ever want to see again.”
The fatal shooting took place in front of Small’s girlfriend and three kids.
Isaacs, a three-year veteran of the NYPD, was returning home from a 4 p.m.-midnight shift when he allegedly cut off Small’s 2016 Kia, witnesses told police. When the vehicles reached a stoplight, Small exited his car, approached Isaacs’ vehicle, and was shot.
Isaacs told investigators that Small had punched him at least two times before he opened fire.
He remains on active duty as Schneiderman’s office investigates. The NYPD is also conducting a departmental review.
Small’s neighbors were “ecstatic” the video surfaced.
They tried to paint him out to be some gorilla — like, he jumped out the car to go attack this person not knowing that he was a cop,” said Octavius Sullivan, 36, who has known Small since they were boys.
Attorney Roger Wareham, who is representing Small’s family, said the video was proof Isaacs lied and should be arrested immediately.
“If the cop’s story is obviously false, why haven’t they arrested him?” he asked.
Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man who died after being placed in a chokehold by an undercover detective in 2014, said Friday the video sickened her.
“This video so upsets me. It’s horrible. They lie all the time,” said Carr, as she joined a Black Lives Matter protest in Harlem. -
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sharpton-calls-nypd-indictment-delrawn-small-death-article-1.2705389Rev. Al Sharpton calls for NYPD cop’s prosecution in Delrawn Small death as video refutes self-defense claim
The Rev. Al Sharpton thinks State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman should go “full steam ahead” in prosecuting an off-duty NYPD cop who fatally shot a man - now that a damning video contradicts the officer’s claim that he was defending himself.
“This video clearly raises questions on the story the officer stated,” Sharpton told the Daily News Saturday, after his weekly National Action Network rally. “This is absolutely the opposite of what the policeman said.”
After shooting 37-year-old Delrawn Small during a road rage confrontation in Brooklyn on July 4, Officer Wayne Isaacs told responding officers Small had punched him at least twice, spurring the cop to open fire in self defense.
But a video acquired by the state attorney general’s office shows Small was shot within two seconds of approaching Isaacs’ 2002 Nissan Altima on Altantic Ave. near Bradford St. in East New York.
“There is clearly not enough time for (Isaacs) to have been punched,” said Sharpton, who has reviewed the video. “We think the independent prosecutor we fought to get must go full steam ahead on this.”
The surveillance video shows Small approaching Isaacs’ car just after midnight. Small felt that Isaac had cut off his 2016 Kia.
After Isaacs fires, Small buckled over and grabbed at a passing car, the video shows. He stumbled and fell to the ground in between two parked cars.
“We are not against black cops or white cops — we are against wrong cops,” Sharpton said. “This cop told a story that is wrong and someone lost their life. If he told a story that doesn’t stand up about his alibi, why should we believe anything else he says? He killed a man.”
Isaacs remains on active duty as Schneiderman’s office investigates.
“(We) will follow the facts and evidence — including this video evidence — wherever they lead,” Schneiderman said Friday. The NYPD is also conducting a review.
The shooting was not discussed at Saturday’s NAN rally, but Sharpton said his organization will support Small’s family any way they can -
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That dude got shot soon as he crouched down to look into the drivers window, he didn't have a chance, that officer had his gun out in a concealed position ready to fire the moment the dude approached his window and dude didn't see it coming til it was too late. Ain't know way in hell he would have been that stupid enough to still approach that man's car if he had seen that a gun was being brandished at him
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He didn't have to shot him though.
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I'm sorry but that's was such a pointless way to have to die, I really wish the brotha didn't run up on that car like that. Road rage is stupid. R.I.P.
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RIP to dude. Cop gonna walk.....
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/11/nyregion/video-of-fatal-shooting-by-off-duty-officer-in-brooklyn-emerges.html?_r=0Video of Fatal Shooting by Off-Duty Officer in Brooklyn Emerges
The video was grainy, and the men on the street were blurs rendered in black and white. But the clip, recorded by a surveillance camera pointed at a Brooklyn intersection, shows a man approaching the driver’s side window of a car, and then, in an instant, stumbling away before collapsing onto the pavement.
Law enforcement officials said they believed that the video, which circulated late last week, showed the fatal shooting of the man, Delrawn Small, by an off-duty New York City police officer during a traffic dispute on July 4.
“I broke down; I couldn’t stop crying,” Zayanahla Vines, a nephew of Mr. Small, said at a protest in Manhattan on Saturday, recounting his reaction to the footage. “I had to go outside and get a breath of fresh air.”
The clip surfaced as the nation was grappling with videos, broadcast on television and shared widely on social media, of confrontations over the past week between black men and police officers. Mr. Small’s death preceded the fatal shootings of Alton B. Sterling, who was killed early Tuesday by officers in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile, who was killed on Wednesday in Falcon Heights, Minn.
In Mr. Sterling’s case, bystanders recorded the shooting on cellphone video; in Mr. Castile’s, his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, broadcast the traffic stop using Facebook Live.
Unlike the other men, Mr. Small, 37, encountered the police officer, identified by law enforcement officials as Wayne Isaacs, when the officer was off duty. The Police Department said that Officer Isaacs, who is also 37, had just completed a 4-p.m.-to-midnight shift and was driving home alone.
The New York State attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, has started an investigation into the shooting. A year ago, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York issued an executive order naming Mr. Schneiderman’s office as a special prosecutor handling police-related civilian deaths.
In a statement issued on Friday, Mr. Schneiderman said the video was being reviewed as part of the investigation. The video was first reported by The New York Post.
As special prosecutor, I am committed to conducting a full, fair and independent investigation of this tragedy,” he said, “and will follow the facts and evidence — including this video evidence — wherever they lead.”
Shortly after midnight on July 4, the authorities said, Officer Isaacs fired his 9-millimeter service pistol after he and Mr. Small stopped at a red light on Atlantic Avenue in the Cypress Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn. Mr. Small’s girlfriend and two children were in the car.
According to a preliminary version of events from the police, Mr. Small got out of his car after stopping at the light, at Bradford Street, and approached Officer Isaacs, punching him through the open car window. Mr. Small was struck by three bullets, in the chest, abdomen and arm, according to the medical examiner.
But in the video, there appeared to be a short window between when Mr. Small approached Officer Isaacs’s car and when he recoiled from the gunfire. The attorney general’s office declined to discuss the video. Law enforcement officials who have reviewed the footage said that it did not provide complete answers to what happened between the two men.
Efforts to reach Officer Isaacs were unsuccessful, and the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the union representing New York’s rank-and-file police officers, declined to comment.
On Saturday night, Mr. Small’s name was invoked along with Mr. Sterling’s and Mr. Castile’s by the protesters who marched through the streets of Lower Manhattan.
“My uncle was killed in cold blood by somebody that was wearing a badge, and that man is still walking free today,” Mr. Vines, 22, said, addressing the hundreds of demonstrators. “We can’t stand for this any longer. It’s not right, and we know it’s not right.”
Wenona Small, who was married to Mr. Small, said that she was disturbed by the video and has struggled to grasp what happened. She had been separated from him for years, she said, but they had remained friends.
“I felt like I was being shot as I watched it,” Ms. Small said. “Nobody deserves to die like that.” -
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/killed-delrawn-small-stripped-gun-shield-article-1.2707114Cop who killed Delrawn Small stripped of gun and shield as AG investigates video contradicting his story
The off-duty cop who shot dead another motorist in Brooklyn has been stripped of his gun and shield, the NYPD said Monday.
Officer Wayne Isaacs was placed on modified duty and will work a desk job while the NYPD and the state Attorney General’s office investigate evidence - including seemingly damning video that contradicts what Isaacs said happened before he shot Delrawn Small, 37, in a road-rage incident in East New York early on July 4.
The video shows Smalls getting shot within seconds of approaching Isaacs’ car.
Isaacs had previously claimed he opened fire from the seat of his car because Small had punched him in the face at least twice.
The incident was sparked moments earlier when Small, angry because he felt Isaacs had cut him off on Atlantic Ave., followed the cop for several blocks before getting out of his car and confronting him.
Isaacs, a three-year veteran, had been assigned to the 79th Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant. -
http://gothamist.com/2016/07/11/the_tires_of_multiple_police.phpNYPD Car Tires Slashed Outside Stationhouse Of Cop Who Fatally Shot Delrawn Small
The tires of multiple police vehicles outside the NYPD precinct stationhouse where the officer who fatally shot Delrawn Small works were slashed Sunday morning. Five cop cars and seven personal vehicles sitting outside of the 79th Precinct stationhouse in Bed-Stuy were vandalized shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday morning, police told the Daily News.
NYPD officer Wayne Isaacs left the 79th Precinct and was driving home from his shift shortly after midnight on Monday, July 4th when he became involved in a road rage incident with Small, a 37-year-old Brooklyn man. Small exited his vehicle and approached Isaacs's car near the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Bradford Street in East New York, at which point Isaacs shot him twice through his open window with his service weapon. Despite early accounts that he had punched Isaacs through the window, security video of the incident shows Small being shot almost instantaneously as he approached.
After shooting Small, Isaacs remained at the intersection and called 911. EMS workers later pronounced Small dead at the scene and the state Attorney General's office has launched an investigation into the shooting. Isaacs has since been placed on administrative duty.
On Saturday night, Small's 22-year-old nephew Zayanahla Vines led hundreds of people on a protest march through the streets of Manhattan.
"Whether you want to admit it or not, we're out here dying from police, and the police are allowed to walk free," Vines said Saturday. "We can't stand for this any longer. It's not right, and we all know it's not right."
Protesters condemned Small's death, as well as the fatal police shootings of Alton Sterling in and Philando Castile, two black men who were shot in Louisiana and Minnesota, respectively, in the last week. -
http://observer.com/2016/07/after-nypd-shooting-brooklyn-lawmaker-warns-violence-is-inevitable/After NYPD Shooting, Brooklyn Lawmaker Warns ‘Violence is Inevitable’
African-American and Latino legislators rallied today at the Brooklyn intersection where an off-duty cop killed an unarmed black civilian on July 4—and one lawmaker predicted a “social explosion” that would dwarf even the riots that wracked Ferguson and Baltimore if the policeman goes free.
Assemblyman Charles Barron, a former member of the Black Panther Party, went further than any of his colleagues gathered near the corner where Officer Wayne Isaacs fatally shot Delrawn Small in an apparent road rage outburst last Monday. Barron, who represents the East New York neighborhood that served as site of the homicide, warned of dire consequences should Isaacs avoid arrest and jail time.
“I’m not going to back down from saying it—I give a warning, a warning: when peaceful means and methods for getting justice is denied and rejected, violence is inevitable,” he said. “You can’t keep killing us with impunity and think we’re going to go back and suffer peacefully.”
“You think Ferguson went up in flames? You think Baltimore went up in flames?” he continued. “The flames across America nobody will be able to douse, if we don’t start getting some justice.”
Video footage surfaced Friday that directly contradicted Isaacs’ account of the deadly encounter. The off-duty cop claimed he shot Small in self-defense after the now-deceased man began punching him through his open car window—but the surveillance tape shows Isaacs firing his service weapon at Smalls just seconds after the civilian approached his vehicle.
The killing in Brooklyn occurred the same week that police shootings of unarmed black men in Louisiana and Minnesota provoked fresh Black Lives Matter protests nationwide. Anger over the deaths of those two men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, apparently inspired Micah Johnson to ? five police officers in Dallas last Thursday.
Most of the lawmakers at today’s event expressed empathy for the families of the dead cops, but Barron offered condolences to Johnson’s family.
“He has a family too. He is a product of this American racist society. He was forced into doing something that was desperate. His family lost a loved one,” Barron said. “They’re probably the most hated people in America, and nobody wants to express their condolences to those innocent family members of Micah. I will do that today.”
This is not the first time Barron has warned of a combustible situation in the city’s nonwhite neighborhoods. In 2014, shortly after black Staten Islander Eric Garner died in a white police officer’s chokehold, Barron claimed there was “a powder keg in this town.” He also warned of violence after the Brooklyn DA opted not to seek jail time for the officer convicted in the death of unarmed black man Akai Gurley.
Small’s brother, Victor Dempsey, called police violence “modern-day genocide,” but also seemed to suggest he did not believe racial animus drove Isaacs to ? .
“It can happen to anybody,” he said. “It has nothing to do with the officer being African-American, it has nothing to do with the victims being black. What you have to understand is, it’s happening too often, and it’s black lives.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates said the same thing.
"For if the law represents nothing but the greatest force, then it really is indistinguishable from any other street gang. And if the law is nothing but a gang, then it is certain that someone will resort to the kind of justice typically meted out to all other powers in the street."
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/the-near-certainty-of-anti-police-violence/490541/ -
The Cop cut him off and could have killed him and his family if he lost control. Why would he speak to dude?
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/murder-charges-killed-delrawn-small-article-1.2807244Off-duty cop who killed Delrawn Small in road rage incident charged with murder; widow welcomes news
A city cop was indicted Monday on second-degree murder charges in the road rage shooting death of driver Delrawn Small, who was killed after a July 4 confrontation with the off-duty officer, sources said.
The cop, Wayne Isaacs, will be arrested Tuesday after the grand jury handed up the indictment to state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who, under a new law, acts as a special prosecutor in matters involving police shootings.
This is the first case in which Schneiderman is prosecuting a cop for killing a civilian since Gov. Cuomo issued a July 2015 executive order empowering the state AG to become a special prosecutor in civilian deaths involving law enforcement.
Isaacs, 37, did not testify before a grand jury.
Prosecutors said Isaacs gunned down Small, 37, in front of the victim’s girlfriend and two children during a confrontation on Atlantic Ave. in East New York on July 4.
Officials said Small chased Isaacs’ vehicle down after he was cut off in traffic.
Seconds after Small approaches Isaacs’ car, the cop shoots the victim, video has shown.'
Isaacs had claimed he opened fire from the seat of his car because Small punched him in the face at least twice.
Prosecutors will be asking for bail to be set at $500,000 and for Isaacs to wear an ankle bracelet to monitor his movements.
Isaacs, who has been on the NYPD for three years, was assigned to the 79th Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Small's widow Winona Hauser Small welcomed the charges.
"I am grateful to the attorney general in getting this indictment," she said in a statement. "I will be in court for every appearance of the police officer, fighting for justice for the wrongful killing of my husband."
Her lawyer Sanford Rubenstein, who is representing her in a wrongful death action, echoed the comments.
“This demonstrates that the governor’s executive order works to bring justice to victims’ families,” Rubenstein said -
The ic has alot of lawyers
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/nyregion/brooklyn-officer-charged-in-fatal-off-duty-shooting-pleads-not-guilty.htmlBrooklyn Officer Charged in Fatal Off-Duty Shooting Pleads Not Guilty
A New York City police officer charged with murder in the fatal off-duty shooting of a man during a road rage dispute pleaded not guilty on Tuesday at his arraignment in State Supreme Court and was taken into custody.
The officer, Wayne Isaacs, arrived at the courthouse just after 10 a.m., flanked by law enforcement officers. The family of Delrawn Small, the man killed in the confrontation this summer, filled two rows behind prosecutors.
The judge, Alexander B. Jeong, granted prosecutors’ request that bail be set at $500,000 for Officer Isaacs, who is also charged with manslaughter. In the request, Joshua Gradinger, an assistant district attorney, said the shooting was “a brutal, deliberate action wherein this defendant fired not one, not two, but three shots” at Mr. Small, who was unarmed, “with absolutely no legal justification.”
Officer Isaacs, who was assigned to the 79th Precinct in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, was driving home early on July 4 after finishing a 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift when he got into a traffic dispute with Mr. Small in the Cypress Hills neighborhood, according to initial police accounts.
Surveillance video showed Mr. Small approaching the officer’s vehicle at a stoplight on Atlantic Avenue; within seconds he stumbled and fell to the ground.
Justice Jeong ordered Officer Isaacs, 37, to surrender his United States and Guyanese passports and any firearms he possessed besides his service weapon, which he had already surrendered along with the personal firearm used in the shooting.
The officer’s lawyer, Stephen C. Worth, called the prosecutors’ bail request “outrageous” and said there was no reason to believe that his client, who lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children, would try to flee. He compared the case to that of Officer Peter Liang, who was allowed to remain free after he was indicted in 2014 for manslaughter in the killing of an unarmed man, Akai Gurley, in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project.
Video of the scene, Mr. Worth said, clearly showed that Officer Isaacs had done nothing to provoke Mr. Small, who he said “wasn’t coming over to give him best wishes and salutations.” He pointed out that his client had remained at the scene after the shooting, called for emergency assistance and immediately reported that he had been assaulted.
“To suggest that somehow this was some kind of wanton killing in light of that video is ludicrous,” Mr. Worth said.
But Justice Jeong said the comparison to Officer Liang’s case was irrelevant because Mr. Liang had shot Mr. Gurley by accident. Mr. Isaacs, who has been suspended, was charged with intentionally shooting Mr. Small.
As Mr. Worth pleaded with the judge, a court officer placed Officer Isaacs in handcuffs. Mr. Small’s wife shrieked; relatives behind her sobbed.
Outside the courtroom after the arraignment, Mr. Worth said the case turned on the question of the point at which Officer Isaacs had a right to defend himself. He said he expected his client would be acquitted.
State Assemblyman Charles Barron, a Brooklyn Democrat who attended the arraignment, disagreed. He said Officer Isaacs deserved to be thrown “under the jail.” -
Damn shame that so many black cops are just as bad as the white ones.
"Showing out for the white cops" I suppose.
These idiots are doing this to their own people......yet not realizing that they're not gonna get the same kind of protection that their white counterparts get for doing the same thing.
Based on this article, he's gonna get thrown to the wolves:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-wayne-isaacs-charged-murder-delrawn-small-article-1.2808766
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Yea thats not justified. I would have shot him tho
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yet not realizing that they're not gonna get the same kind of protection that their white counterparts get for doing the same thing.
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Never knew that, but it makes sense.
Simply because it nullifies the "in the line of duty" defense.
You can't do anything in the line of duty when you're off-duty.
Wonder how many of his brethren and police sympathizers are gonna help pay his $350,000 bail?
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I hope they fry his pig ass in prison. I ain't hoping he get ? but I wouldn't be mad if he does.? him
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-officer-wayne-isaacs-found-not-guilty-road-rage-killing-article-1.3614828NYPD cop Wayne Isaacs found not guilty in killing of Delrawn Small as family calls it 'murder, in cold blood'
Stephen Rex Brown
Even though a Brooklyn jury cleared an off-duty officer Monday in last year's road rage shooting death of Delrawn Small, his family is unmoved in their own verdict — it's "murder, in cold blood."
"He sat there and said he killed a man for looking at him," said Small's brother, Victor Dempsey. "That's a fact. He said he killed a man for looking at him. This is a guy we need to get off the streets. He cannot represent the NYPD. He cannot represent law enforcement. He can't. He should have been held accountable today but unfortunately he wasn't. Now I've got to stand with my family and look at them in the eye and not know how to explain what just happened."
His sister was equally outraged.
"Coming to court and having faith in the justice system that is not built for black people," said Small's sister Victoria Davis. "Do you know how much money has been lost? Do you know how many components of our lives have been affected negatively? He has to be fired. He will not get another dime from me. He will not."
Later, the two offered a more measured statement that said Isaacs got away with murder:
"What Wayne Isaacs did that night — immediately shooting and killing our brother as he approached his car and leaving him to bleed out and die, when he had so many other options — was murder, in cold blood. It is dangerous that once again a police officer is being treated as if they are above the law. Today, the justice system made a statement that it does not equally value Black life and the life of our brother Delrawn Small."
Isaacs walked out of Brooklyn Supreme Court a free man after he was cleared of all charges related to the death of Small on July 4, 2016.
The cop, who has been on modified duty, was acquitted of both murder and manslaughter charges on the third day of deliberations.
Angry onlookers, escorted by court officers, stormed out of the courtroom.
“What the f--k! You're a murderer!" shouted Black Lives Matter President Hawk Newsome. "This whole system is corrupt! You all are murderers," Newsome shouted at the jurors. "How could you let him free?”
The jury was made up of five whites, five blacks, one Hispanic and one Asian. There were seven women and five men.
The scene outside the courtroom was filled with emotion, with family members crying and yelling at lawyers.
Outside Brooklyn Supreme Court, Newsome said he was expecting some sort of conviction right up until the end, if not on murder, then manslaughter.
This was the first murder case prosecuted by the attorney's general's office under Gov. Cuomo's 2015 executive order for the state to investigate cases where unarmed civilians are killed at the hands of NYPD. Newsome said AG Eric Schneiderman's team failed miserably.
"They dropped the ball, thus proving law enforcement stands together against us," Newsome said. "It's like law enforcement versus black people."
Small's family defended prosecutors.
“Our quarrels are not with the AG’s office," Dempsey said. "It’s the jury, the jury did not listen. They decided to ignore all the facts of the case. The attorney general’s office did their job. He (Isaacs) admitted to killing someone in cold blood, yet they didn’t convict.”
Schniederman said he was disappointed in the verdict.
"But we respect the jury’s determination and thank them for their service," he said in a statement. "My office will continue to investigate these cases without fear or favor and follow the facts wherever they may lead,”
Isaacs, 38, testified on his own behalf on Wednesday that he opened fire after Small threatened to ? and punched him in the face.
Small's girlfriend Zaquanna Albert tearfully testified during the trial that Isaacs cut them off on Atlantic Ave. moments before the deadly encounter.
"No, that never happened," said Isaacs during his testimony on Wednesday, debunking Albert's account.
Small, 37, exited his car to confront Isaacs about his reckless driving at a red light on Atlantic Ave. and Bradford St.
Isaacs shot Small three times within seconds of approaching his driver's side window.
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stringer bell wrote: »http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-officer-wayne-isaacs-found-not-guilty-road-rage-killing-article-1.3614828NYPD cop Wayne Isaacs found not guilty in killing of Delrawn Small as family calls it 'murder, in cold blood'
Stephen Rex Brown
Even though a Brooklyn jury cleared an off-duty officer Monday in last year's road rage shooting death of Delrawn Small, his family is unmoved in their own verdict — it's "murder, in cold blood."
"He sat there and said he killed a man for looking at him," said Small's brother, Victor Dempsey. "That's a fact. He said he killed a man for looking at him. This is a guy we need to get off the streets. He cannot represent the NYPD. He cannot represent law enforcement. He can't. He should have been held accountable today but unfortunately he wasn't. Now I've got to stand with my family and look at them in the eye and not know how to explain what just happened."
His sister was equally outraged.
"Coming to court and having faith in the justice system that is not built for black people," said Small's sister Victoria Davis. "Do you know how much money has been lost? Do you know how many components of our lives have been affected negatively? He has to be fired. He will not get another dime from me. He will not."
Later, the two offered a more measured statement that said Isaacs got away with murder:
"What Wayne Isaacs did that night — immediately shooting and killing our brother as he approached his car and leaving him to bleed out and die, when he had so many other options — was murder, in cold blood. It is dangerous that once again a police officer is being treated as if they are above the law. Today, the justice system made a statement that it does not equally value Black life and the life of our brother Delrawn Small."
Isaacs walked out of Brooklyn Supreme Court a free man after he was cleared of all charges related to the death of Small on July 4, 2016.
The cop, who has been on modified duty, was acquitted of both murder and manslaughter charges on the third day of deliberations.
Angry onlookers, escorted by court officers, stormed out of the courtroom.
“What the f--k! You're a murderer!" shouted Black Lives Matter President Hawk Newsome. "This whole system is corrupt! You all are murderers," Newsome shouted at the jurors. "How could you let him free?”
The jury was made up of five whites, five blacks, one Hispanic and one Asian. There were seven women and five men.
The scene outside the courtroom was filled with emotion, with family members crying and yelling at lawyers.
Outside Brooklyn Supreme Court, Newsome said he was expecting some sort of conviction right up until the end, if not on murder, then manslaughter.
This was the first murder case prosecuted by the attorney's general's office under Gov. Cuomo's 2015 executive order for the state to investigate cases where unarmed civilians are killed at the hands of NYPD. Newsome said AG Eric Schneiderman's team failed miserably.
"They dropped the ball, thus proving law enforcement stands together against us," Newsome said. "It's like law enforcement versus black people."
Small's family defended prosecutors.
“Our quarrels are not with the AG’s office," Dempsey said. "It’s the jury, the jury did not listen. They decided to ignore all the facts of the case. The attorney general’s office did their job. He (Isaacs) admitted to killing someone in cold blood, yet they didn’t convict.”
Schniederman said he was disappointed in the verdict.
"But we respect the jury’s determination and thank them for their service," he said in a statement. "My office will continue to investigate these cases without fear or favor and follow the facts wherever they may lead,”
Isaacs, 38, testified on his own behalf on Wednesday that he opened fire after Small threatened to ? and punched him in the face.
Small's girlfriend Zaquanna Albert tearfully testified during the trial that Isaacs cut them off on Atlantic Ave. moments before the deadly encounter.
"No, that never happened," said Isaacs during his testimony on Wednesday, debunking Albert's account.
Small, 37, exited his car to confront Isaacs about his reckless driving at a red light on Atlantic Ave. and Bradford St.
Isaacs shot Small three times within seconds of approaching his driver's side window.
SMH...
Not really
