He didn’t plant evidence.He laid the taser gun next to him because the wires were stuck on the police officer.The guy tasered the officer.
The cop shot the guy, walked to him (20+ feet away), walked back to the Tazer, picked up the Tazer, walked back to the deceased, and placed it on/next-to him. That’s a lot of deliberate effort for something that absolutely didn’t need doing. If you did that (as a non-cop), that alone would enough for many years in prison. “The wires were stuck on the police officer” is grounds for un-sticking the wires, not moving the weapon to/on the body making it look like he attacked the cop and tried to run off with the Tazer.
I know where you’re trying to go with this, and it don’t go there.
Cop should have left everything where it was, but he didn’t. There was no reason to move the Tazer.
> “He didn’t plant evidence.”
We disagree. Taking the taser from his feet, moving it approx 50 feet to the body of the guy he shot in the back, and dropping it next to the body, then lying about it to his superiors, is a pretty hard thing to overcome. He would have been much better off if he had left everything where it was and told the truth about what happened before the video became known. He didn’t, so he will probably end up paying a heavy price.
Someone once said, its not the crime that is the problem, its the coverup.