MD - Cop caught on his own body cam planting drugs to implicate suspect

[Anti Federalist]

Busted! Shocking moment a police officer 'plants drugs at the scene of a crime to incriminate a defendant' is caught on his OWN body camera

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4711026/Body-camera-appears-cop-planting-drugs-scene.html

The incident took place earlier this year during a search in Baltimore, Maryland

Video starts by showing a cop appear to place a bag of drugs inside a soda can

Officer then walks out of the alley, past two other cops with him, onto the street

After 30 seconds, he turned his body camera on and tells his colleagues he is going to go back down the alley to where he just was so he can 'check down here'

He looks around for a few seconds before picking up the drugs and yelling out

The incident was caught on camera because body cameras save footage of the 30 seconds prior to the device being turned on in the field, but not the audio

The defendant related to the video has been held since January on drug charges

Charges against him were reportedly dropped after video of the cop emerged

 

[otherone]

.....AAAAnd the taxpayers will pay. AGAIN and AGAIN. Their rectal nerve endings have long been destroyed.

 

[Schifference]

See justice prevails. Charges were dropped. All it takes is a little cooperation and patience.

 

[Iowa]

Wonder how many don't get caught. But at least it's something.

 

[sparebulb]

Wonder how many don't get caught.

ALL of them, save for one or two such as this.

 

[Anti Federalist]

While it appears that the officer is planting the drugs at the scene, the police commissioner noted that it's also possible they had found the drugs earlier and then decided they needed to "recreate" finding the drugs with the body cameras operating.

http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/20/police-body-camera-appears-to-catch-balt

 

[angelatc]

http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/20/police-body-camera-appears-to-catch-balt

While it appears that the officer is planting the drugs at the scene, the police commissioner noted that it's also possible they had found the drugs earlier and then decided they needed to "recreate" finding the drugs with the body cameras operating.

I think those quote marks should be around "needed."

 

[Anti Federalist]

I think those quote marks should be around "needed."

I wonder what cops and prosecutors would think of us Mundanes "recreating" evidence or the manner in which it was found?

 

[bunklocoempire]

Everyone knows that inanimate objects have hot potato super powers when the oracles say so.
Temple guards planting hot potatoes to deal with non-believers is perfectly normal.

 

[dannno]

 

[DamianTV]

Body Camera Shows Cop Planting Drugs - Video

 

[UWDude]

SO, charges will be filed against these pigs, right?

 

[fisharmor]

SO, charges will be filed against these pigs, right?

Same place they got away with murdering Freddie Gray in cold blood.
Same charges await them.
Same whitewash and dismissal, too.

 

[Natural Citizen]

It figures it'd be something like that.

 

[juleswin]

The police are getting sloppy, how is it that these people don't even know how to plant drugs? for shame.

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

The police are getting sloppy, how is it that these people don't even know how to plant drugs? for shame.

Right. I too was thinking that this goon is especially dumb...

 

[phill4paul]

Baltimore Prosecutor Throws Out 34 Cases After Officer Caught Allegedly Planting Drugs

Officials in Baltimore, Maryland, on Friday publicly doubted the credibility of three police officers and announced that 34 criminal cases would be dropped, while adding more could be dismissed as the investigation into a controversial video that showed an officer apparently planting drugs at a crime scene continues.

Marilyn Mosby, the state’s attorney for Baltimore, said that more than 120 cases were under review after body cam footage from a January drug case surfaced earlier this month. The video appeared to show Officer Richard Pinheiro hiding a bag of capsules in a red can before planting it in a trash-filled yard. Two other officers, Hovhannes Simonyan and Jamal Brunson, witnessed Pinheiro hiding the drugs.

Any case that relied solely on the testimony of the three officers would be dismissed, said Mosby. “The credibility of those officers has now been directly called into question,” she told reporters, according to The Baltimore Sun. “As I have stated before, it is incumbent upon us as prosecutors to be the ministers of justice, and to do what’s right in the pursuit of justice, over convictions, while simultaneously prioritizing public safety.”

The 34 cases that have been dismissed were all drug- or gun-related, reported The Associated Press. More than 70 cases were still under review, said Mosby. Because of “independent corroborative evidence,” 12 cases were given the green light to move forward, she said.

Since the release of Pinheiro’s body cam footage earlier this month, the officer has been suspended from the police department. The two other officers have been put on “non-public contact” administrative duty.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...ice-bodycam-drugs_us_597de1eee4b02a4ebb75f560

 

[sparebulb]

The two other officers have been put on “non-public contact” administrative duty.

In the evidence room, no doubt.