http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/nyregion/brooklyn-officer-charged-with-murder-and-manslaughter-in-off-duty-shooting.html 2016-09-27 00:51:44 Brooklyn Officer Charged With Murder and Manslaughter in Off-Duty Shooting Wayne Isaacs, who shot another driver after a road-rage episode in July, is the first police officer to be prosecuted by the New York attorney general. === A New York City police officer was charged on Monday with killing a man during an off-duty road rage confrontation this year in Brooklyn, the officer’s lawyer said. The officer, Wayne Isaacs, was charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter. He is the first police officer in New York State to be prosecuted by the attorney general since the state’s top prosecutor was given the power to investigate killings involving the police. Officer Isaacs was driving home after finishing a 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift on July 4 when he got into a traffic dispute with another driver, Delrawn Small, at a red light on Atlantic Avenue in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn, the authorities said. According to initial police accounts of the episode, Mr. Small, whose girlfriend and two children were in the car, approached Officer Issacs’s car, punching him through his open window. Amid questions about those preliminary accounts of the shooting, the office of the attorney general, Officer Issacs, 37, Mr. Small’s death came the same week that Alton B. Sterling Last year, responding to a series of civilian killings involving the police, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York signed an executive order granting Mr. Schneiderman the power to investigate and prosecute police-related deaths. Local district attorneys had come under fire in several of the killings, particularly in the choking death on Staten Island of Eric Garner, for their potentially conflicted roles in prosecuting police officers, with whom they work closely and regularly. The governor’s order drew criticism from many of the state’s district attorneys — including Ken Thompson in Brooklyn — who argued that despite their tight relationships with police officers, they, the duly elected top law-enforcement officers of their counties, and not statewide prosecutors, were best suited to handle such cases. Shortly before the news about the charges Reached by telephone, Ms. Albert declined to speak about the charges against Officer Isaacs. A woman who later answered her phone said, “She’s stressed out,” and hung up.