Mark Dial had been charged with first-degree murder and other offenses in the death of Eddie Irizarry in Kensington.
Dial shot Irizarry about seven seconds after getting out of a police SUV and walking over to his car, the video showed.Defense lawyers call the shooting justified. They said the officer, also 27, thought Irizarry had a gun. The bodycam footage shows the driver holding a knife by his right leg.
"I screamed that he had a knife," said Morris, adding the knife had a black metal handle that could have been mistaken for a gun. District Attorney Larry Krasner has called bodycam videos from Morris and Dial "crucial evidence in the case," saying they "speak for themselves."The defense, meanwhile, has blasted Krasner's decision to charge Dial with murder.
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