About 100 supporters of Eddie Irizarry marched around Center City to protest a Philadelphia judge’s earlier decision to dismiss all charges — including murder — against former Officer Mark Dial.
As drizzle fell Tuesday evening, around 100 supporters of Eddie Irizarry gathered outside City Hall to protest a Philadelphia judge’s earlier— including murder — against former city Police Officer Mark Dial, who shot and killed Irizarry during a traffic stop in Kensington last month.
Irizarry’s father and namesake , Eddie Irizarry, his aunt Zoraida Garcia, and other family members joined the march just before the crowd reached the Juanita Kidd Stout Criminal Justice Center, where just hours earlier the judge had dismissed all charges against Dial.
Talia Giles, with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, told the crowd Irizarry’s death was not an isolated incident.After a preliminary hearing Tuesday morning, Pew ruled that prosecutors had not presented enough evidence to show that Dial fatally shooting Irizarry while on-duty last month was a crime.
“You know, it proved today that a police officer can kill somebody and get away with murder. That’s what it proved today,” Zoraida Garcia, Irizarry’s aunt, said after the judge’s ruling.
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