Posted on 07/05/2016 3:52:57 PM PDT by LibWhacker
A road-rage showdown left an unarmed Brooklyn driver dead and an off-duty cop under investigation for answering two punches with three point-blank gunshots.
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a probe into the early Monday shooting of Delrawn Small, 37, whose girlfriend and three kids watched in horror as the lethal confrontation unfolded.
"Words can't begin to explain the pain I feel right now," girlfriend Zaquanna Albert posted on Facebook. "... My heart aches for this man and my son who will never remember his dad."
A warrant was obtained to search the 2002 Nissan Altima belonging to Wayne Isaacs, 37, a three-year NYPD cop. The Brooklyn resident pulled his service weapon and opened fire at Small, an ex-con, from the front seat.
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Small's relatives and pals described the dead man as a pleasant guy.
"Even if the man did attack you, roll up your window, drive off -- hold yourself to a higher standard," said Jermaine Gabriel, 40. "Yeah, you can get upset. But to kill a man?"
Small, his girlfriend, their 4-month-old son and her two daughters were driving through East New York to meet up with his older brother Ali Dempsey for the Fourth of July.
A witness said the rapidly escalating confrontation began when Small, driving a 2016 Kia, felt he had been cut off by Isaacs shortly after the cop's 4 p.m.-midnight shift had ended.
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A video camera captured Small, who was two cars in back of Isaacs, exiting his car when both vehicles reached a red light, according to cops, who refused to release the video.
A person familiar with the probe said Small's girlfriend told investigators he had three drinks earlier at a barbecue, was easily angered, and rebuffed her when she begged him not to get out of his car.
A woman answering Small's girlfriend's phone Monday night said she wasn't available to comment.
"All she wants you guys to know is that he was a great dad," the woman said.
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Small, of Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, approached the driver's side window and punched the cop twice as he sat in the vehicle -- once in the face and another time in the mouth, a police source said.
That's when the cop shot Small twice in the torso.
One witness, however, recalled a different time line.
"Delrawn and the cop's car almost hit each other. And Delrawn got out of the car and the cop just jumped out and started screaming. He just shot (Small) right there on the street," said construction worker Lloyd Banks. 43. "(He) was unarmed. His (girlfriend) and kids were still in the car. They saw everything."
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Small, known as "Fu," died shortly after midnight at the intersection of Bradford St. and Atlantic Ave.
The officer was taken to Jamaica Hospital, where he was being treated for minor injuries and later released.
A man at Isaacs' Brooklyn home Monday night confirmed he was involved in the road rage incident before declining further comment and quickly closing the door.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said the department is offering full cooperation in the state probe.
"We are comfortable, based on the preliminary investigation, that this was a road-rage incident," he said.
Bratton, citing the ongoing probe, said it was too early to say whether the cop had been justified in his actions.
But a police source said the officer will need to explain what led him to use deadly force.
Small had a rap sheet that included 19 arrests and three terms behind bars.
Small finished parole on his latest arrest for assault in 2013, jail records show.
Isaacs was accused in a 2014 lawsuit with a false arrest in which the suspect was "punched, kicked and struck several times in the head and body."
The plaintiff also charged that one of the arresting cops called him a "n----r" before the case was settled for $20,000.
He didn’t “intend” to....
If it was Joe Citizen, they’d be in jail pending an investigation.
Plus, show he had an “intention” to kill. Maybe his “intention” was simply to wound.
Better to be judged than buried.
Sucks to be Small.
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(”yer killin me, Smalls!”)
In “use of force continuum” training a punch to the head is considered lethal force.
If the bad guy takes it to that level you may employ whatever force is necessary to end the threat.
It is not very smart to rush up to a guys window and punch him in the head. More then one persons has been killed by punch on the head.
Here is some information one why a punch can be deadly force.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-punch-to-head-is-potential-deadly.html
If you watch television and the movies, you might get the impression that a punch to the head is no big deal. That is not true. A punch to the head is a very serious attack. It can disable. It can maim. It can kill. The head is a vulnerable target, which is why an attacker aims for it. I first became aware of the deadly potential of one punch to the head in the 1970’s, from a long forgotten news story. Later, the son of a close friend killed a man with one punch. He was eventually found not guilty of manslaughter, but only after a long and expensive legal fight.
We owe a debt of gratitude to Steve Kokette of Madison, Wisconsin for producing One Punch Homicide, which documents the surprising numbers of one punch homicides that occur in the United States and around the world. From simple Internet searches, he has compiled a list of 114 one punch homicides in the United States. I am sure that the list is far from complete
So basically, you’re supposed to let a guy punch you in the head as many times as he wants. You can’t use a gun to defend yourself.
If he’s punching you while you’re sitting in your car, the most you can do is try to close the window and drive off.
Daily News.
Enough said.
This is a reprehensible series of reports.
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You are stopped at a red light, a man comes and attacks you.
What do you do?
The policeman should have just sat or stood there and let this tattooed ex-convict beat the crap out of him!
Reminds me of the early video where the fat black woman got the 360lb felon to come into the pizza parlor and attack the guy on the phone. Probably one of the first WorldStarHipHop type videos on the internet.
That felon should have been shot.
“Off-duty NYPD cop shoots man dead after alleged road rage attack in Brooklyn”
How about:
Off-duty NYPD cop shoots violent criminal dead while being attacked in Brooklyn?
But whose road rage? The shooter, or the guy who charged the car and started punching through the window? And what is the next stage after rage?
And hope he does not pull a piece and shoot at you, or hit some 3-year-old playing in the street or in a living room nearby. Isn't that how that works?
This looks like one of those situations where we are not going to know what actually happened from any early news reports. This needs to be investigated and all of the witnesses interviewed. That said, in New York use of lethal force in self defense is normally only allowed if you are in reasonable fear for your life and retreat is not an option. (Exception for your home where you do not have to retreat in the face of an attack.)
“”Even if the man did attack you, roll up your window, drive off — hold yourself to a higher standard,” said Jermaine Gabriel, 40. “
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Do these people even know what a higher standard is?
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No, you can put the transmission in reverse, turn the steering wheel sharply to the right, gun the engine and run over him with your front tires.
At age 37 a bit long on tooth for a third year?
Most likely he was in uniform? (after shift) And the jamoke starts punching?
Would this be front-page news if he had been shot by another black? It wouldn’t even make a byline in the metro section. I just wish that blacks would wake up and realize they’re being played for fools by the leftist establishment.
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