Posted on 07/19/2017 7:14:59 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
It was a routine drug arrest in one of Baltimore’s more troubled neighborhoods.
But it has become a flash point sparked by video from one of the officer’s body cameras.
The public defender’s office looked at the video and contended it showed an officer planting evidence in a trash-strewn alley.
Baltimore police countered with a more complicated explanation. They are investigating whether the officer had legitimately found drugs but, realizing he had forgotten to turn on his body camera, reconstructed his find. His body camera captured both him hiding the drugs and then finding them. Authorities said that would be improper but would not be an effort to make a false arrest of an innocent citizen.
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He just wanted to go home to see his family.
Americans can’t be secure without licking a few boots.
A Kool-Aid connoisseur, I see.
there’s no flavor like blue!
I finally got around to watching The Wire last week. Good to see not much has changed with the BPD.
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