A Philadelphia judge on Wednesday reinstated all charges — including first-degree murder — against the now-fired city police officerduring a traffic stop in Kensington this summer — reversing the ruling issued by another judge after a preliminary hearing last month.
. And after Pew dismissed charges last month, there were also numerous instances of burglaries and vandalism at businesses throughout the city — crimes that police were quick to say had been committed by “criminal opportunists” seeking to take advantage of the uproar over the case.On Wednesday, prosecutors told Ransom they believed Pew erred when she ruled that they hadn’t presented enough evidence to substantiate murder charges against Dial.
Dial, 27, a five-year veteran of the force, shot and killed Irizarry, 27, as Irizarry sat in his car during a traffic stop in Kensington on Aug. 14. Police initially said Irizarry had lunged at Dial with a knife, leading the officer to shoot him.
Pew, the Municipal Court judge who presided over Dial’s preliminary hearing, said she agreed with that argument when she moved to dismiss all charges against Dial last month.Outside the courthouse in the hours before the hearing, about a dozen protesters held a banner that read “Justice For Eddie,” “End Police Brutality,” and, in Spanish, “Not one more.”
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