Lawyers for a Philadelphia police officer who shot and killed a driver will press to have murder and other charges lodged against him dismissed when the jailed officer appears in court for a preliminary hearing Tuesday.
shows Dial firing his weapon at close range through the driver’s side window of Irizarry’s sedan during a vehicle stop. Dial shot Irizarry about seven seconds after getting out of a police SUV and walking over to his car, the video showed. He fired a total of six rounds.
Defense lawyers call the shooting justified. They said the officer, also 27, thought Irizarry had a gun. And, that bodycam footage shows the driver holding a knife by his right leg.Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters. “When police officers ordered him to show his hands, he instead produced a weapon and pointed it at an armed police officer,” lawyer Brian McMonagle told reporters earlier this month. “In no world those facts murder.”
District Attorney Larry Krasner has called the videos “crucial evidence in the case,” saying they “speak for themselves.”
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