A Philadelphia police officer who shot and killed a person final month surrendered to officers on homicide prices Friday.

Officer Mark Dial shot Eddie Irizarry Jr. solely about 5 seconds after exiting his police automobile. Police pulled Irizarry over for driving erratically together with making an unlawful proper flip and going the unsuitable manner down a a method road, Dail’s lawyer alleges. Dial initially claimed Irizarry was outdoors of the car and lunging at him with a knife, however two days later police admitted to the media that that was not the case. Newly launched physique cam footage exhibits Irizarry had no time to answer officers’ instructions, from ABC Information:

The district legal professional’s workplace confirmed footage from the body-worn cameras of Dial and a second officer who was on the scene. Irizarry’s household and their counsel had beforehand seen the movies and requested that they be performed of their entirety, he mentioned.

Krasner warned that the footage “will in some methods be traumatic.”

The footage exhibits Dial getting out of his cruiser and approaching Irizarry’s automobile together with his gun drawn. “I’ll f——— shoot you,” he says, earlier than firing into the entrance driver’s seat the place Irizarry was seated. Previous to photographs being fired, an officer may be heard yelling at Irizarry to indicate his palms.

Dial fired six photographs “at shut vary,” Krasner mentioned. The DA was unable to reply what number of instances Irizarry was struck, pending a last post-mortem report.

Dial may also be seen pulling a bloodied Irizarry out of the automobile after which, with the second officer on the scene, carrying him to their police cruiser. The second officer may be heard radioing that they’re “scooping” a person to carry to a hospital.

Within the physique cam footage you’ll be able to hear one other officer saying “Mark, maintain on. Mark, cease.” Dial was suspended for 30 days earlier than the district legal professional filed prices of “…voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, easy assault, reckless endangerment of one other individual and official oppression,” in keeping with ABC. Dial’s lawyer advised reporters his consumer is harmless on all prices, and genuinely feared for his life when he killed Irizarry:

“To cost officer Mark Dial with homicide is abhorrent,” Brian McMonagle, one among Dial’s attorneys, advised reporters following the give up Friday morning. “The undisputed details of the case are that a person made an unlawful flip proper in entrance of cops, took off at a excessive fee of velocity, after which tried to evade officers by taking place a one-way road the unsuitable manner, tried to cover from them.”

“And when cops ordered him to indicate his palms, he as an alternative produced a weapon and pointed it at an armed police officer,” he continued.

Please word: Making an unlawful proper flip isn’t a demise penalty crime, even in Philadelphia.

Please word, this footage my be disturbing to some viewers: