Controversy surrounds the Philadelphia Police Department following the shooting death of a 36-year-old family man while officers were serving a warrant.

The family of Jeffery Dennis is searching for answers regarding the fatal shooting of the unarmed man on Monday.

According to CBS Philadelphia, officers from Northeast Narcotics Field Unit attempted to serve a warrant to Dennis when they spotted him in a black Toyota Camry. He pulled off, and they followed suit until he stopped at his destination on Hegerman Street and Princeton Avenue.

Six plainclothes officers reportedly got out, went up to the car and attempted to serve the warrant. They used their three unmarked vehicles to box in Dennis' car, and they then exited.

However, the officers state the man pulled off, struck and injured three officers. Another officer took out his weapon and fired three rounds, killing him. 

Family attorney Lee Merritt suspects foul play. Dennis, at the time of the shooting, did not have a weapon on his person and was not a threat to officers, Meritt claims. The root of these claims comes from interviews he conducted with neighbors who witnessed the incident.

He told the Philadelphia Inquirer the officer farthest from the car fired while the others, who were closer, didn't discharge their weapons. 

"It's very rare when you have a group of officers in a situation like this, that when one of them discharges their weapon, the others don't," Merritt said. "When you believe there is a danger and you hear a gunshot since you don't know where it came from, the training kicks in, and the other officers will usually fire their weapons. They were so certain there was no threat … they didn't engage."

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross Jr. also has concerns about the tactics employed during this encounter, reports NBC Philadelphia.  

"Police officers shall not discharge their firearms AT a vehicle unless a person in the vehicle is immediately threatening the officer or another person with deadly force by means other than the vehicle (e.g., officers or civilians are being fired upon by the occupants of the vehicle)," the policy directives state.

The officers were reportedly not wearing body cams and didn't have dash cams in the vehicles. The only video of the incident is confiscated video surveillance footage that Merritt said he intends on viewing. 

While the officer responsible for the shooting has yet to be identified, head of the Coalition for Black Lives Philadelphia Asa Khalif claims the officer is from the 15th Police District, and the Philadelphia Tribune reports the officer has been on the force for a decade. 

“I told everyone in the city that the 15th Police District will shoot and kill again,” Khalif said during a Facebook Live chat on Tuesday afternoon. “You dismissed it. You said I was being anti-cop and that I was in my feelings. But the 15th District has a history of abusing black and brown and poor people in that section of the city.”

Dennis is survived by his fiancée and three children.

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