New York’s police watchdog is expected to recommend disciplinary charges against the off-duty officer who fatally shot ❀an👍 unarmed driver during a 2016 road-rage encounter, The Post has learned.
The Civili🎃an Complaint Review Board voted Wednesday evening to substantiate an excessive-force complaint against Officer Wayne Isaacs and will soon recommend an internal reprimand over the death of Delrawn Small, according to a source with knowledge of the case.
A spokesman for the CCRB confirmed the vote Thursday afternoon and added, “CCRB prosecutors will vigorously pursue a guilty verdict in the NYPD’s administrative trial room.”
Isaacs, who is still listed on the city’s public payroll, shot and killed Small during a heated confrontation just after midnight on July 4, 2016, on Atlantic Avenue in East New York.
Prosecutors brought criminal charges against the cop — second-degree murder 𓄧and first-degree manslaughter — but he was cleared after a jury trial in 2017.
Isaacs, who admitted to firing three times, said during the trial that he feared for his life and that Small screamed “I’m gonna f–king kill you” while punching him.
Prosecutors alleged that Small never hit the cop.
Small’s girlfriend and stepdaughter both testified that Isaacs had cut them off just moments before the confrontation.
The not-guilty verdict sparked ou🐎trage among his family, the commun💝ity and activists.
The cop was first to be prosecuted by the New York Attorney General’s Office under Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order allowing the state agency to bring charges against cops in civilian deaths.
Patrick Lynch, the president of the🌺 The Police Benevolent Association that represents the officer, said he expects Isaacs to be cleared of all wrongdoing just as he was previously by the NYPD and a jury.
“This move by CCRB has nothing to do with justice. It’s about grabbing headlines and pushing their radical agenda,” Lynch said.
The NYPD cleared Isaacs of any wrongdoing.