Posted on 09/08/2023 3:13:48 PM PDT by Morgana
Former Philadelphia police officer Mark Dial has been charged with murder for killing a 27-year-old driver last month after surveillance footage showed him shooting him through his car window.
Mark Dial fatally shot motorist Eddie Irizarry through his car window in North Philadelphia on August 14 - just five seconds after he got out of his patrol car.
Police have now also released bodycam footage of the incident, previously seen through surveillance video from a nearby home collected by the alleged victim's family.
Dial, who was fired a week later, has now been charged with murder, voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangering and official oppression, the DA announced.
He turned himself in to the police South Detectives division on Friday, with his lawyer claiming Dial believed he was in danger when he fired.
Bodycam footage shows Dial and his partner pull up next to Irizarry's parked car before Dial exits his cruiser and begins shouting and the alleged victim. Seconds later he starts firing at Irizarry inside his car.
Dial's partner is then heard saying, 'Mark, hold on. Mark, stop,' before instructing him to move the police cruiser.
The cops then pull Irizarry's body out of his car and load him into the backseat of a cruiser, with Dial then driving to a hospital.
District Attorney Larry Krasner said the footage is 'hard to watch, and Irizarry's family chose to watch it.
'There is always some level of trauma, especially for family members associated with watching something that is extremely violent... Regardless of the warnings, they wanted to see it, which we all understand, and we saw it.'
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Either that weapon has the most hair trigger ever or the police department just hires anyone with a body temp of 98.6F
Was the guy aiming a weapon at the cop? Enquiring minds want to know.
Ehh. Dial made a mistake. Dock him 30 days pay and move on.
/sarc
Why the hell are they charging the cop when anyone with a cellphone and no common sense knows this was a case of “gun violence” and the gun was the one who caused this shootin’.
“Was the guy aiming a weapon at the cop? Enquiring minds want to know.”
Of course, absolutely! EVERY SUSPECT is guilty and pointing a firearm whether they actually are or not.
Lots of police departments hire people like that. Are there good cops out there? Yes. Are there some bad cops out there? ABSOLUTELY. Back the blue, till it happens to you. It they don’t immediately shoot you, it’s best to take the 5th.
The fact that the police department totally changed their story as soon as the video was released sure doesn’t help their case.
The cop filed the report that the suspect got out of the car and the other cop wrote a report that said nothing in 1600 words. The DA is doing something before the family sues the city for millions.
Bodycam and the ring doorbell showed different, so the cop lied. It is clearly a bad shoot, takes 3 loops through the video to see the amount of wrong going on here.
The cop should get fired and I guess might plea to manslaughter charge and a prison where they dont kill cops. I wish freepers would stop defending lousy city police, they never have been good at their jobs.
Failure to instantly obey a commend is an instant death sentence. Raising your hands too fast while obeying commands is an instant death sentence.
Democrat Mayor, Democrat State.
Not former. More honest and accurate to say then-officer as he didn’t do this after leaving the department.
> Was the guy aiming a weapon at the cop? Enquiring minds want to know. <
The police originally said the guy got out of his car, then came at the cops with a knife. Then video surfaced showing the guy never got out of his car.
Make of that what you will.
With increasing stories like this, my question is have cops been hiding in plain site or is the hiring paring great authority with people of insufficient character to not care about the consequence. While I would like to give the benefit of the doubt, increasing availability of nearby perspectives seem to be painting a rather grim and troubling picture. Has it always been this way and it was just never caught outside of whitewashed reports of the officer? Or is there a problem that is emerging and getting worse?
It is quite concerning.
Getting stopped by cops in North Philadelphia is a very dangerous situation, especially for the one getting stopped.
Put your hands up on the steering wheel and obey every single command by the police. Any weird moves and you’re as good as dead in North Philly.
> Put your hands up on the steering wheel and obey every single command by the police. <
One problem is that different police officers will often give conflicting commands simultaneously. This can easily confuse a person under stress.
“Get out of the vehicle.”
“Hands up!”
“Let’s see some ID.”
This could easily be solved by have only the senior officer present giving commands. I don’t know why that isn’t done.
“Any weird moves and you’re as good as dead in North Philly.”
Because EVERYONE is guilty and their life is not important.
“One problem is that different police officers will often give conflicting commands simultaneously. This can easily confuse a person under stress.”
Oh man... Incompetency with this situation is off the hook. Just watch a few seasons of “Cops” with that in mind. Unfriggenbelievable how many bad or ignorant commands are issued. It is a wonder more are not killed by accident just because of bad commands.
We started down this road in the 1970s when all the “Hizzoners” in our cities decided to bring Police Departments into line with the “Mainstream of 20th Century thought”.
This of course was not “killed by accident”. The cop shoots the guy five times through the window and still acts like he’s scared to death. I say nail his p*ssy ass to the wall!
Here’s one. A state trooper asks a motorist for his ID. Motorist attempts to obey, and reaches into his car for his ID.
State trooper shoots motorist.
(not for the squeamish)
https://youtu.be/RBUUO_VFYMs?si=U5MetSKXkYWUFIFB
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