A day after a video showed Philadelphia police officer Mark Dial shooting and killing Eddie Jose Irizarry in Kensington, Commissioner Danielle Outlaw will provide the latest updates on the investigation.
Attorney Shaka Johnson was joined by Irizarry's family during Tuesday's 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"You may have heard we were initially set to see this body worn camera footage last Friday and then that was rescinded. The opportunity to see that was rescinded," Johnson said."As a result, we're working tirelessly with this family.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."
"On August 14 it appears he committed the cardinal sin of driving erratically. Which, I don't care how you unpack this, a death sentence is not called for, for erratic driving," Johnson said during Tuesday's press conference. Outlaw said that officials are not yet certain whether Irizarry knew he was being followed by police.
"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.
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