Former Philadelphia police officer Mark Dial was sentenced Thursday in the 2023 shooting death of Eddie Irizarry. Irizarry’s family members expressed outrage after leaving the courtroom.
He was sentenced to 9.5 months to two years. He is being granted immediate parole after already serving 10 months.
“He was a cop, so he gets the okay. But that’s where they messed up, because now you’re telling everybody, ‘go ahead and get shot and the cop’s going to walk off.’ Because right now he’s walking out with his family – we need to go to a cemetery,” said Irizarry’s aunt, Zoraida Garcia.
At the heart of the case was whether Dial was justified in using deadly force when he fired six shots into a car driven by Eddie Irizarry in August 2023, killing him…