Several weeks after a Philadelphia police officer killed Eddie Irizarry during a traffic stop, the officer who allegedly pulled the trigger surrendered o face charges ahead of the public getting to see police body-worn camera footage of the deadly shooting.
Last week, O'Brien and Johnson announced that Irizarry's family saw the police bodycam video of the shooting during a meeting with Krasner.
Johnson said he and Irizarry's family were able to obtain surveillance video from the community after they were initially unable to get the body worn camera video from city officials. While one of the officers is heard saying something to the other officer in the video moments before the shooting, it's unclear what exactly is being said.
Police said Dial fired"multiple times" and that Irizarry was hit"several" times. Irizarry's family said that he was shot six times, which is consistent with what's shown in the surveillance video.In the surveillance video, after the shooting one of the officers opens up the car door and pulls Irizarry out. Both officers then carry him as they walk away.
“He never raises that knife towards police officers or lunges at them. In fact, it really appears that he’s trying to put the knife away as police interact with him," O'Brien said. During the Aug. 22 news conference, Johnson criticized the initial account from police that they later said was inaccurate.
"The body worn camera footage made it very clear that what we initially reported was not actually what happened," she said.
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