“Do you think this officer just carried around cocaine so he could plant it on this guy, who was a paragon of virtue ? Given the crimes the guy had just committed, why would he even care to plant drugs on the perp? “
Well I have a Black friend who was a LAPD officer in San Pedro for ten years. He left the force because of the abuse his department brought on black people in which they came into contact.
I am not saying that I believe that Blacks are responsible for a disproportionate number of crimes, they are, and probably this guy who was arrested was good for something. But that does not mean the cops get to “manufacture evidence.”
Never talk to the cops is good advice. They are not your friend when they stop you.
In what way was this 'manufactured' evidence ?
Do you think the cop was carrying small baggies of cocaine to plant on a felony hit and run /high speed chase suspect ?
IF not, then he had to have picked it up off the ground. Where do you suppose it came from?
Whether in his shirt pocket or in his billfold, the law/justice system doesn't really care if it was found up your rectum. It was ON YOUR PERSON period. There was no benefit to the officer placing it in the suspect's billfold EXCEPT to keep it from getting blown/swept away while it was lying on the ground, apparently separate from the other evidence(billfold) or had already gotten knocked (perhaps even kicked on purpose by the perp) away from where they layed it when they found it in his pocket. Even more logical is that the billfold was in his rear pocket and the billfold was layed near there, while the bag was found in his shirt pocket which would be the opposite end of the body trunk and may have even involved both officers searching him and laying out different items.