Off-duty NYPD cop who shot Brooklyn man dead in road rage incident to face department trial in January, family says

One decade, seven police commissioners, and three mayors later, the family of Delrawn Small said on Wednesday that the NYPD officer who already shot and killed him is finally heading for a disciplinary trial. Victor Dempsey, Small’s brother, made the announcement on Oct. 21 outside the Civilian Complaint Review Board's headquarters, following a meeting with Police Department personnel. The trial will take place on Jan. 13, 2027. “We have a date scheduled. Everyone's been asking me, ‘Well, how do you feel?’ I still don't know how to answer that. The reason why I can't answer that is because our family has been fighting for 10 years,” Dempsey said. “Next January we're going to be going into our 11th year.” Small was gunned down in Brooklyn in 2016 during an apparent traffic stop. According to the Small family, off-duty police officer Wayne Isaacs cut off Small’s car on Atlantic Avenue. The pair got into some kind of dispute, and when Small approached Isaacs’ car, the cop opened fire,