New York Daily News

AG eyed 11 cases of cop-shoot vics

- John Annese

THE STATE attorney general’s office has investigat­ed nearly a dozen cases where a police officer shot and killed an unarmed civilian over the past two years, leading to charges being brought against one NYPD cop, according to a report released Thursday.

In a 23-page study from Attorney General Eric Schneiderm­an’s office laid out the 11 cases handled by its Special Investigat­ions and Prosecutio­ns Unit. The division was created after Gov. Cuomo signed an order appointing the attorney general as special prosecutor in certain police-related deaths.

Six of those 11 cases remain under investigat­ion — including the July 4, 2016, shooting of 37-year-old Delrawn Small in East New York, Brooklyn. Off-duty police officer Wayne Isaacs faces manslaught­er charges, accused of shooting Small during a fit of road rage.

The open cases also include the Nov. 2 death of Ariel Galarza, 49, who died after an NYPD sergeant Tased him twice in his Bronx home.

Galarza was holding a bottle of hot sauce when a neighbor thought he was an emotionall­y disturbed person with a knife and called police.

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