Diaz, 26, was sitting in his car in downtown Orlando at around 2 a.m. when officers approached him, suspecting he had drugs.
Diaz appeared to comply with the officer’s request to turn off the car and place his hands on the steering wheel, but when the officer opened the driver’s side door, body camera footage showed Diaz reaching into the center console of the car.
The officer fired a single shot and ran away from the car, the body camera footage showed. The Orlando Police Department said the officer feared Diaz was reaching for a gun.
Body camera footage from the officer standing on the passenger’s side showed an object being thrown from the car, according to police.
Orlando police allege the object was a bag containing an unspecified drug.
The rest of the body camera footage showed officers performing CPR on Diaz, who was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
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