‘My brother was murdered’: Video proves NYPD cop’s road-rage killing was unjustified, relatives say

The attorney general of New York state is reviewing a video that shows an off-duty police officer fatally shooting a man who had approached his car in Brooklyn last week. The security video tape was acquired by the attorney general's office, according to ABC News, and was released several days after the July 4 incident. The release of the video comes around a time when footage of two other officer-involved shootings — one in Baton Rouge and the other in Falcon Heights, Minn. — became national news. The video appears to undermine an earlier police report asserting that the New York City police officer, Wayne Isaacs, was punched in the head through his driver's-side window by Delrawn Small, leading Isaacs to fire three shots from his service weapon, hitting Small in the head and chest, according to the New York Post. The graphic video does show Small getting shot as he approaches a 2002 Nissan Altima. The video, though somewhat blurred, does not appear to show Small punching Isaacs. After being shot,Nike Tn the 37-year-old Small can be seen keeling over before stumbling into another car and falling on the ground. He eventually collapses between two parked cars. Small's relatives told the New York Daily News that the footage makes it indisputably clear that the killing was unwarranted. "The video is as clear as day," Small's brother Victor Dempsey told the paper. "That everything they told us from the very beginning was a lie. Was a lie. Every single thing. And I don't know how to feel now. All I know is my brother was murdered. Point blank period murdered." Victoria Davis,Air Rift Small's sister,Nike Tn said the footage showed her brother's final moments were filled with suffering. "To just watch him stumble from car to car, knowing that he suffered, knowing that he was afraid, that was hard," she said. "That's not a video that I would ever want to see again." [New York will have a special prosecutor look into some deaths at the hands of police] New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told reporters that he was unwilling to comment on the incident prematurely, according to the New York Post. "It's too early to determine what transpired … before, during and then after the incident," he said.