FAMILY DEMANDS COP'S ARREST
Appearing at a sidewalk memorial for an unarmed driver shot dead by an off-duty officer in the Bronx, the senior Honduran diplomat in New York criticized the police yesterday, saying, “We are not going to let this go by unnoticed.”

“The police cannot shoot crazily or indiscriminately,” said Javier Hernández, the consul general, who said he had been living in New York for 19 years. “Before, there was courtesy, now there is intimidation, and I think it should be the other way around,” Mr. Hernández said. Like the driver, Fermin Arzu, many residents of the Longwood neighborhood, where the shooting occurred, are Honduran immigrants.

The Police Department’s Internal Affairs Bureau continued its investigation yesterday into the death of Mr. Arzu, 41, on Friday night. The Bronx district attorney’s office was also reviewing the case.

 Mr. Arzu was shot by Officer Raphael Lora, 37, who had confronted Mr. Arzu after he crashed his minivan into another car near Officer Lora’s home near midnight.

“The consul general can be assured there will be a complete investigation,” said the chief police spokesman, Paul J. Browne. “It is already under way.”

The shooting comes during a difficult period for the police. Weeks of public protest were touched off on Nov. 25, when five officers shot 50 bullets into a car in Queens, killing its driver, Sean Bell, and wounding two of his friends. Two officers were indicted on manslaughter charges and one was charged with reckless endangerment.

 Relatives of Mr. Arzu, a building porter and musician, described him yesterday as a responsible, hard-working man who had never tangled with the police, and who was under the emotional stress of caring for his fiancée, a cancer patient.