It was an emotional Sunday evening as loved ones gathered to honor Derek Diaz, who was shot a week ago by Orlando police.
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The family returned to the corner of Jefferson Street and Orange Avenue to hold a candlelight vigil and remember the father of a 26-year-old daughter.
Emotions ran high, from grief to anger and confusion.
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Diaz’s daughter’s mother remembers him as a loving father who would do anything to make their five-year-old daughter smile.
“His daughter had her first day of football today. He wasn’t there. She asked me about him, and we have nothing to tell her,” said Yaneri Diaz Rodriguez, the mother of the daughter of Diaz.
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On June 3, Orlando police said they were proactively patrolling the area known for drug activity early in the morning.
Authorities said they believed Diaz was in a car doing drugs, so they approached him.
Investigators say Diaz moved quickly as if to retrieve a gun, so an officer shot him.
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Orlando police say they found drugs on Diaz, but not a firearm. He later died in hospital
While Orlando Police Department officers said it appeared Diaz was reaching for his gun when they approached him, his family said that response was not good enough.
Her family is asking for transparency for the closure, and that’s why they’re demanding that body camera footage from that night be released immediately.
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As Derek Diaz’s relatives stand next to a small memorial where the shooting took place, they said they won’t stop pushing until they find out why they had to come there in the first place.
Yaneri Diaz asked, “Why can’t we see the video.”
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Orlando police said they plan to release the video eventually. The policy is to do so within 30 days of a shooting involving an officer.
But there is no exact day they will do so in this timeline.
The Orlando officers involved in the shooting are on paid leave while the investigation unfolds, which is the responsibility of the police department as well.
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