{"id":38917,"date":"2025-11-14T00:13:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T00:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/38917\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T00:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T00:13:26","slug":"cop-who-fatally-shot-unarmed-driver-in-brooklyn-road-rage-clash-must-face-trial-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/38917\/","title":{"rendered":"Cop who fatally shot unarmed driver in Brooklyn road-rage clash must face trial: family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Outraged relatives of a man killed nearly a decade ago by an off-duty cop in a Brooklyn road-rage clash<\/a> are urging Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch to let a trial against the officer proceed.<\/p>\n

Officer Wayne Isaacs has remained on the force since he gunned down unarmed motorist Delrawn Small on July 4, 2016, during a confrontation on an East New York street.<\/p>\n

Delrawn Small<\/p>\n

\"Delrawn<\/p>\n

Obtained by New York Daily News<\/p>\n

Delrawn Small.<\/p>\n

Isaacs\u2019 latest reprieve came from an NYPD administrative law judge, who said the Civilian Complaint Review Board<\/a>, which had scheduled the trial, did not have jurisdiction because the cop was off duty and not acting in an official police capacity.<\/p>\n

Small\u2019s family said he is being denied justice \u2014 again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been seven police commissioners, two mayors since Officer Isaacs murdered Delrawn,\u201d the victim\u2019s cousin Eric Eleam said at a news conference outside Police Headquarters in lower Manhattan. \u201cThrough all of these steps in the system, the PBA and people have been protecting him,\u201d he said, referring to the city\u2019s largest police union.<\/p>\n

\"Small'sDelrawn Small’s cousin Eric Eleam speaking at a press conference Thursday at 1 Police Plaza. (Julian Roberts-Grmela\/NYDN)<\/p>\n

Eleam, like the CCRB, maintained that Isaacs, although off duty, was operating in his capacity as a police officer when he drew his department-issued weapon and used it to shoot Small.<\/p>\n

Isaacs also claimed that he acted as a police officer when sued by Small\u2019s family, according to a CCRB spokesman.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe PBA paid his lawyer bills for 10 years,\u201d Eleam said. \u201cThey defended him because he was a cop during the trial, the civil suit. Now they want to say he was not a cop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Small, 37, was with his infant son, stepdaughter and girlfriend when his car was cut off several times by Isaacs.<\/p>\n

Small, who was unarmed, crossed two lanes of traffic to confront Isaacs in his car on Atlantic Ave. near Bradford St. Almost as soon as Small reached Isaacs\u2019 window, the officer shot him three times, striking him in the chest, officials said.<\/p>\n

\"SceneScene of fatal police-involved shooting of Delrawn Small by off-duty Officer Wayne Issacs at Atlantic Ave. and Bradford St. in East New York, Brooklyn, Monday, July 4, 2016 (Vic Nicastro for New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Isaacs, who maintained he acted in self-defense, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter<\/a> at a criminal trial in November 2017.<\/p>\n

The NYPD\u2019s Force Investigation Division then cleared him following an investigation, which then-Police Commissioner James O\u2019Neill signed off on a year later.<\/p>\n

In October 2020, the CCRB brought a new disciplinary case against Isaacs, but was stymied by Isaacs\u2019 lawyers and the Police Benevolent Association union, which blocked the agency\u2019s access to sealed records.<\/p>\n

In September, the NYPD finally scheduled his disciplinary trial for Nov. 19, a development blocked by the administrative law judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outraged relatives of a man killed nearly a decade ago by an off-duty cop in a Brooklyn road-rage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-38917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}