New York Daily News

EYE SLAY BY COP

Board probes off-duty road-rage shooting

- BY ELIZABETH ELIZALDE AND GRAHAM RAYMAN

A police oversight agency is looking into the case of an off-duty police officer who shot and killed a Brooklyn man during a 2016 road-rage incident.

Off-duty cop Wayne Isaacs was acquitted in Brooklyn Supreme Court of manslaught­er and murder charges in the July 4, 2016, death of 37-year-old Delrawn Small in East New York.

Isaacs remains on the police force, on modified duty — which usually means desk duty, without a badge or gun.

It’s unclear what may come of the investigat­ion being undertaken by the Civilian Complaint Review Board, an agency separate from the Police Department. The CCRB could decide to pursue administra­tive charges against Isaacs.

Small’s sister, Victoria Davis, met Thursday with CCRB officials — and afterward criticized Mayor de Blasio and the NYPD for not having punished the officer.

“Wayne Isaacs should have been fired and charged three years ago, yet he’s still on the city’s payroll,” Davis said. She added that Isaacs “is a danger to the community, and he’s a danger to New Yorkers.”

Joining Davis at a news conference was Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, who was killed by police in 2014. Garner died after cops put him in a chokehold in an incident captured on video.

Carr bemoaned the fact that Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who placed the chokehold on Garner, also remains on the force. Pantaleo’s department­al trial, which will be prosecuted by CCRB lawyers, is expected to begin in May.

“The NYPD could have fired Officer Pantaleo five years ago, and no one has been held responsibl­e or stood accountabl­e for my son’s death,” said Carr. “There were 12 other officers involved in my son’s death that day, and all of them should be fired, all of them need to lose their jobs.”

“Every one of them is still working,” she said. “They’re padding their pensions, especially Pantaleo.”

Isaacs was off-duty when he shot Small (photo) three times in a late-night roadrage incident on Atlantic Ave. in East New York.

Prosecutor­s said Small approached Isaacs’ car after the cop cut him off on the road. Isaacs fired from inside his vehicle, claiming he was scared for his life.

As Small lay prone on the ground, Isaacs walked by his body and called 911 to claim he was attacked and punched.

Small’s girlfriend and his three children were present when Isaacs fired. Small died within 15 seconds after he was shot, investigat­ors found.

A jury deliberate­d three days before deciding Isaacs was not guilty of seconddegr­ee murder, manslaught­er and other charges.

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