A family member of Eddie Irizarry is set to speak a week after officials announced the pending firing of the Philadelphia police officer who was captured on video shooting and killing him.
a week after officials announced the pending firing of the Philadelphia police officer who was captured on video shooting and killing him.
“Today, I am announcing that I have made the decision to utilize commissioner’s direct action to suspended Police Officer Mark Dial with the intent to dismiss him at the end of 30 days due to administrative violations," Outlaw said during a press conference on Aug. 23.
Attorney Shaka Johnson was joined by Irizarry's family during the Aug. 22 press conference in Center City. During the presser, Johnson showed surveillance video of what he claimed was the deadly police shooting. "You may have heard we were initially set to see this body worn camera footage last Friday and then that was rescinded. The opportunity to see that was rescinded," Johnson said."As a result, we're working tirelessly with this family. We had to go about things on our own and acquire video of this particular incident ourselves."Investigators said Irizarry was driving the wrong way along the 100 block of E. Willard Street at 12:28 p.m.
While one of the officers is heard saying something to the other officer in the video moments before the shooting, it's unclear what exactly is being said. In the surveillance video, one of the officers then opens up the car door and pulls the driver out. Both officers then carry the motionless driver as they walk away.
"When you look at this video, I want you to ask yourselves, look at it critically and ask yourselves, how, based on what you will soon see, could the narrative have ever been, this was a police chase? How could Ms. Reilly have ever taken to the podium as a spokesperson for the police department and said that Mr. Irizarry, Eddie, got out of that vehicle, wielded a knife, and I believe I heard Ms.
Law enforcement officials also claimed two knives"were observed inside the vehicle." Officials said these were a serrated folding knife and some type of kitchen knife. It's unclear from the video shown Tuesday whether or not there were knives inside the car. “I do think in general the community supports the police," Kenney said."The police are in support of the community. Circumstances like this do set us back. But I think that we’re able to recover and move forward.”
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