Body camera footage shows officer planting drugs, public defender says

[WhiskeyGrinder]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-body-camera-footage-20170719-story.html

Baltimore police and prosecutors have launched investigations after being alerted to body camera footage that the public defender's office says shows an officer planting drugs.

The footage is from a January drug arrest. It shows an officer placing a soup can, which holds a plastic bag, into a trash strewn lot. The officer can then be seen walking to the street, where he flips on his body camera.

"I'm gonna go check here," the officer says. He returns to the lot and picks up the soup can, removing a plastic bag filled with white capsules.

Police cameras have a feature that saves the 30 seconds of video prior to activation, but without audio. When the officer is first in the alley, there is no audio until 30 seconds later.

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[mercuryblues]

1. In the meantime

an innocent man has spent 6 months in jail. Not to mention every case he testified in is now suspect.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Happens everyday

This is normal. I know a lot of cops, most of them good ones, but even the good ones know this stuff is happening. The Blue Wall prevents them from doing anything about it.

People do not get that White Supremacists have infiltrated nearly all law enforcement departments, and in many cases they are commanding officers.

Here would be a start, if you have a white supremacy in your background you can't be a police officer. They're doing very little to screen applicants for racism.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Kick.