News on Delrawn Small

For immediate release: November 6, 2017

Family of Delrawn Small Responds to Not Guilty Verdict against NYPD Officer Wayne Isaacs Who Killed Small

Family comments on failure of jury as injustice, racialized fear, racism in justice system and society; demands that Mayor de Blasio & NYPD Commissioner O’Neill fire Isaacs. 

In response to the jury finding NYPD Officer Wayne Isaacs not guilty of murder for killing unarmed Delrawn Small on Atlantic Avenue on July 4, 2016, Delrawn Small’s brother and sister, Victor Dempsey and Victoria Davis, released the following statement.

“Nothing can bring Delrawn back or fill the void in our hearts and lives from our brother being taken from us by this senseless murder‎. We are devastated and outraged that the jury failed to ensure justice by not holding NYPD Officer Wayne Isaacs accountable for murdering our brother. 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.

NYPD cop who killed Delrawn Small didn't look injured: testimony

10/27/2017
New York Daily News

An off-duty NYPD officer who gunned down a Brooklyn father in what he claims was self-defense during a road rage encounter did not have any visible injuries to his face, according to trial testimony Friday.

Officer Wayne Isaacs told detectives and a 911 operator on July 4, 2016, that he shot Delrawn Small three times after he was punched in the face while at a red light on the corner of Atlantic Ave. and Bradford St. in East New York.

Isaacs, who was driving home about midnight after his shift at the 79th Precinct, had cut off Small’s car.

Pics appear to dispute ‘road rage’ cop’s self-defense claim

10/28/2017
New York Post

Brooklyn jurors on Friday were shown hospital photos taken of an off-duty cop just after he fatally gunned down an unarmed driver in a road-rage incident — and the images appear to contradict his claim of self-defense.

The portrait-style and full-body photos of Officer Wayne Isaacs wearing a stripped white golf shirt were taken by now-retired NYPD crime-scene Detective Vincent Falsitta at Jamaica Hospital at 1:30 a.m. — about an hour and a half after the East New York shooting on July 4, 2016.

Shocking 911 calls from off-duty cop’s ‘road rage’ shooting released

10/26/2017
New York Post

Jurors in the trial of an NYPD officer accused of fatally shooting an unarmed man during a traffic dispute have now heard the cop’s 911 call — where he neglected to mention he’d just shot someone.

Officer Wayne Isaacs can be heard in the call, placed at 12:05 a.m. on July 4, 2016, telling the dispatcher he’s been attacked — as Delrawn Small bleeds to death on the sidewalk nearby.
“Oh my God!” Small’s girlfriend Zaquanna Albert — who witnessed the shooting — can be heard screaming in the background of the call, as Isaacs tells the dispatcher “it’s an emergency.”

Delrawn Small's stepdaughter recounts moment cop shot him

10/26/2017
New York Daily News

A Brooklyn teen broke down crying Thursday while describing the horrifying scene after an off-duty NYPD cop opened fire on her stepdad in a lethal road rage attack.

The sound of her own voice on a 911 call left 15-year-old Zaniah Isaacs in tears in the murder trial of Wayne Isaacs, who was headed home from the 79th Precinct on the Fourth of July last year.

Girlfriend of Delrawn Small details day cop fatally shot him

10/25/2017
New York Daily News

A pre-Fourth of July that started with a barbecue and drinks with friends ended with a woman watching in horror as the father of her infant son was gunned down on a Brooklyn street in a road-rage incident with an off-duty NYPD cop.

“He was grunting, making noises, seen blood all over, he was leaking out just leaking,” Zaquanna Albert told a jury Wednesday about the last moments of Delrawn Small’s life.

NYPD cop who killed Delrawn Small was 'callous' in road-rage fit

10/23/2017
New York Daily News

The family of a Brooklyn man who an NYPD officer gunned down in a road rage incident broke down in tears as jurors were shown a photo of his bloody corpse.

Officer Wayne Isaacs faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted of murder in what prosecutors called the “callous” and “indifferent” killing of Delrawn Small early on July 4, 2016, on Atlantic Ave. in East New York.

Assistant Attorney General Jose Nieves made his opening argument Monday in the trial, in which Isaacs claims the shooting of the 37-year-old Small was justified because he feared for his life.

Trial to Begin for Off-Duty Officer Charged in Fatal Traffic Dispute

10/22/2017
New York Times

Opening arguments are scheduled to begin on Monday in the trial of a New York City police officer who shot and killed a motorist in a traffic dispute as he headed home from work last year in Brooklyn.

Wayne Isaacs is the first police officer in the state to be tried under an executive order that gave the attorney general the power to investigate and prosecute officers for civilian deaths at their hands or in their custody.

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