Poor, poor Larry Krasner is tearfully upset that he couldn’t lock up another cop for longer

Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating District Attorney, recently renominated for a third term, as the city’s chief prosecutor, is just spittle-flecking angry that he cannot keep a former Philadelphia Police Officer in jail any longer, and, of course, the denizens at The Philadelphia Inquirer have been outraged all along. Columnist Helan Ubiñas waxed wroth when the charges against former Officer Mark Dial were initially dismissed, because Mr Krasner’s minions didn’t do their jobs properly. The Inquirer’s long-time columnist, Helen Uniñas, waxed wroth that the charges were dismissed, calling it a “welcome and rare reminder that police are not above the law when Officer Mark Dial’s bail was revoked” last week, to jail him before trial, and yesterday was pissed because “prosecutors apparently did not present evidence that (Officer Dial) had committed a crime.” Shouldn’t her ire be reserved for the District Attorney and his minions, who failed to “present evidence that he had committed a crime”? Does Miss Ubiñas believe that all criminals should be held behind before bars before they are tried and convicted? How else can one interpret that revocation of bail was a “welcome and rare reminder that police are not above the law”?

The District Attorney was able to get the charges reinstated, but not the First Degree Murder charge he wanted. In Pennsylvania, a defendant can be held without bail is the charge carries a potential term of life imprisonment. The DA refiled on Title 18 §2502, “Murder generally,” but Third Degree Murder usually does not result in a life sentence. Mr Krasner still wanted Mr Dial kept in jail before he was tried and convicted of anything, and succeeded to the tune of ten months behind bars.

Former Philadelphia Police Officer Mark Dial sentenced — and immediately paroled — for killing Eddie Irizarry

Former officer Mark Dial was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and related crimes in May for the killing of Eddie Irizarry.

by Ellie Rushing | Thursday, July 17, 2025 | 11:13 AM EDT | Updated 3:33 PM EDT

Former Philadelphia Police Officer Mark Dial was sentenced Thursday to 9½ months to two years in prison for shooting and killing Eddie Irizarry in Kensington in 2023, allowing Dial to remain at home and not spend any additional time behind bars.

The sentence pronounced by Common Pleas Court Judge Glenn B. Bronson fell years below the state guidelines for a conviction for voluntary manslaughter, and authorized Dial, 29, to be immediately paroled because he had already spent about 10 months in jail.

The sentence drew immediate condemnation from Irizarry’s family and District Attorney Larry Krasner, who said the outcome was unjust.

“I am deeply disappointed with a verdict that I think makes people lose faith in the criminal justice system,” Krasner said.

Mr Krasner was “deeply disappointed” with the verdict, because the jury acquitted Officer Dial of Third degree Murder charges, though he was convicted of the other charges. Prosecutors asked Judge Glenn Bronson to immediately revoke Mr Dial’s bail and that he be held behind bars prior to his sentencing, but the judge allowed him to remain out on bail. At that point, Mr Dial had already spent about ten months locked up.

Now, with a sentence of 9½ months to two years, Mr Dial had already completed the minimum sentence.

State guidelines called for a sentence of 3½ to seven years, but prosecutors wanted more:

State sentencing guidelines called for Dial to be sentenced to a minimum of 3½ to seven years in prison. Assistant District Attorney Karima Yelverton asked that he spend five to 10 years behind bars, in part to “send an explicit message” that there are consequences for killing someone.

But the decision fell to Bronson, who opted to depart from guidelines, saying the shooting was not “a classic voluntary manslaughter case.”

Hey, the prosecution asked the judge to “depart from guidelines,” and he did!

At a news conference after the hearing, Krasner decried Bronson’s sentence as an example of a criminal justice system that he said operated like a “caste system,” where people of certain races or social classes are treated differently.

“There is nothing new about white people being treated better than Black and brown people, and there is nothing new, sadly, about the status of a defendant — whether that status involves wearing a uniform or not — nothing new about that being unequal,“ he said. ”Everything I just said has always been wrong, and it is wrong today.”

Yet, in asking for a sentence longer than the guidelines, weren’t Mr Krasner and his minions asking for different treatment because Mr Dial had been a policemen?

The District Attorney simply hates police officers. He added that while he did not believe that Mr Dial posed a continuing threat, he was at least happy that the felony conviction barred him from ever owning a firearm or becoming a police officer again. Yet, as we previously reported, Mr Krasner and his office do not prioritize illegal gun possession charges.

If Mr Dial, as he said in court, believed the lives of his partner and himself were in jeopardy when a knife handle was misidentified as a gun, is that not at least in part due to the culture of lawlessness that the District Attorney and his office have inspired with their lenient treatment of the bad guys? Is that not, at least in part, due to a prosecutorial climate in which the DA goes tooth-and-nail against the police, but treats the thugs and goons and delinquents with kid gloves?