PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — On the day Philadelphia Police Officer Mark Dial surrendered to authorities on murder charges, the District Attorney's office released twenty-two minutes of body-worn camera footage Friday detailing how the police shooting death of Eddie Irizarry unfolded on Aug. 14.
The footage includes two videos in their entirety — one camera worn by Dial, who fired the fatal shots and is in the process of being terminated by the department, and the other worn by the police officer who was with him and driving their police vehicle.
Due to the incredibly graphic nature of the videos, KYW Newsradio will not be posting them in full. KYW anchor Denise Nakano details what parts of the videos show in the audio clip below:
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The video shows the two officers exiting their police vehicle and approaching Irizarry's vehicle from either side. The footage from Dial's camera captures him shouting, "I will f**king shoot you," before pointing the gun at the driver's side window and firing six shots as he works his way around the front of Irizarry's car.
The officers call in that shots were fired, and attempt to open Irizarry's car doors. With the gun still pointed at Irizarry, who is visibly struggling and bleeding, they ask him to keep his hands visible. Irizarry, bloody, becomes unresponsive, and the officers pull him out of his vehicle and put him in the back of their police vehicle and drive Irizarry to the hospital. Later in the video, Dial can be seen waiting in the hospital, hands shaking.
Dial's partner remained at the scene to give a report to officers there.
Police originally said he lunged at officers with a knife but then changed that story to say he never even got out of his car.
Irizarry’s family soon released neighborhood surveillance footage that shows a police SUV pulling up to Irizarry’s car and an officer firing his gun within five seconds of getting out. The body cam footage reveals a similar story.
District Attorney Larry Krasner said Irizarry’s family has watched the videos, and they wanted them to be played for the public in their entirety and not blurred. Krasner warned they are extremely graphic, and that parents should use their discretion for their children.
The family has also asked that people do not riot or loot in response to the video, similar to the police killings in 2020 of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Walter Wallace in Philadelphia.
In a statement, Mayor Jim Kenney echoed that idea.
“I have watched the footage and I understand that it may provoke anger and upset in our communities,” he wrote. “We ask that the public remain peaceful in demonstrations and calls for accountability as we continue to process this tragedy as a city.”
Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw announced on Aug. 23 that Dial had been suspended and would be fired. On Friday she said the internal affairs investigation into Dial continues. Dial turned himself in Friday morning and, in a highly unusual move for a murder case, posted $500,000 bail.
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 President John McNesby said Dial has the "full support" of the police union "as our attorneys continue to gather all the facts surrounding this tragic incident."
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