"He should have pulled out his badge, instead he pulled out his gun."
They were both Black men – one a civilian, the other an off-duty NYPD officer. Only one left their traffic dispute alive...
They were both Black men – one a civilian, the other an off-duty NYPD officer. Only one left their traffic dispute alive...
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00:00One time, my son was in the backseat, my oldest son, and that was the first time, and I begged
00:07the officers not to kill me, and not to kill my son.
00:13That was the first time that I called Daron's death a murder, or say he was killed.
00:36Prior to that, I was putting nicer words on it, and I was saying things like, something
00:47happened to him, or the incident.
00:50They killed my brother who raised me.
00:52They killed my brother who, even when my mom was alive, helped to raise me.
01:06This is where we usually have the memorial, because it's actually right there.
01:24Daron was driving down Atlantic Avenue from way down there, when Isaacs was also driving
01:33from down Atlantic Avenue, so he was in his plain clothes, and he was in his personal
01:39vehicle.
01:40When Isaacs lowered his window and shot Daron, as Daron exited the vehicle, it happened like
01:53almost instantly.
01:54The thing is, when Isaacs should have pulled out his badge, instead he pulled out his gun.
02:03He called 9-1-1 and told them that he was assaulted.
02:08He never mentioned that he had shot a civilian who was bleeding out in between two cars.
02:15He didn't render any first aid.
02:18He didn't do anything.
02:29I'm afraid to drive.
02:32I'm afraid to be pulled over.
02:34The two times that I was pulled over, I begged for my life.
02:42If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say that you enjoyed it.
02:48All of us would rather be here for other reasons, more positive reasons.
02:53We would rather not be here speaking about our loved ones who were killed at the hands
02:59of police.
03:19In most of these cases, what they come down to is how much the jury, through the reasonable
03:25person standard, sympathizes with the defendant or sympathizes with the victim.
03:31Self-defense cases are cases in which ordinary societal biases, stereotypes, and prejudices
03:38can simply filter their way right through the jury box and into the ultimate decision
03:44of whether the defendant acted reasonably or not.
03:58The problem is that black victims are low-balled or not shown sufficient care and concern by
04:05juries.
04:07The interest of black victims are given short shrift in self-defense cases, especially when
04:15those interests of those black victims are weighed against the interests of somebody
04:20in a blue uniform, or even as in this case, they weren't in the blue uniform at the time
04:25of the shooting, but they had that job description.
04:30They were still portrayed as police officers at the trial, and that kind of put them in
04:36that police officer halo.
05:06After trial, he went back to his comforts.
05:13He went back to his pension, his back pay, you know, just all of his comforts while my
05:22family was left to pick up the pieces.
05:25Almost a year after the trial, I had given birth to my son, Justice, and so I have my
05:34literal Justice, right?
05:36So I'm just holding these systems accountable so they can hold officers like Wayne Isaacs
05:43accountable.
05:44It doesn't make sense that taxpayers are paying his salary as a public servant when he served
05:51no one but himself.