Posted on 08/22/2017 9:14:45 PM PDT by Theoria
For the third time in about a month, body-camera video showing “questionable activity” by Baltimore police officers has prompted state prosecutors to dismiss or postpone dozens of criminal cases, the Baltimore City state’s attorney’s office said in a statement this week.
The state attorney’s office did not describe what was captured in this latest video. But it said the footage was brought to the attention of the office by the Baltimore Police Department on Aug. 2 and “was self-reported as a re-enactment of the seizure of evidence.”
State attorneys referred the matter to the Police Department’s internal affairs division.
T.J. Smith, a spokesman for the department, did not respond to questions about the video’s content. “The officer’s status has not changed as a result of the state’s attorney’s press release,” he said in an email on Tuesday.
Two other police body-camera videos that have emerged since mid-July also prompted investigations. Maryland’s Office of the Public Defender said they appeared to show officers planting or manufacturing evidence.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Nothing worse than a crooked cop. Other than a RINO.
Work on that body/dash cam technology! It’s important for so many reasons to be able to document exactly what happened when the police interact with the public.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Yes and then some but the slime is already placed in custody for dealing this week. Waitin this one out.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.