On July 4, 2016, Delrawn Small, 37, was shot and killed after a confrontation on Atlantic Avenue at Bradford Street in East New York, Brooklyn. Small was with his girlfriend and children when a dispute with another vehicle driven by off-duty NYPD officer Wayne Isaacs escalated. Surveillance footage shows Small approach Isaacs’s car at a red light and then be shot three times; the shooting happened in view of Small’s family.

Isaacs, who was 38 at the time, remained at the scene and later said he fired in self-defense, claiming Small had punched him and threatened his life. The New York State Attorney General’s office took over the investigation and Isaacs was indicted and tried on charges including second-degree murder and manslaughter. In November 2017 a jury acquitted him of all charges.

The case stayed a focal point for calls for police accountability.