Posted on 07/25/2021 8:07:49 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
A police department in Wisconsin is hitting back against a cell phone video taken during a traffic stop circulating on social media, arguing that body camera footage showing the incident from a different vantage point, proves that an officer did not try to "plant evidence" in the back seat of the vehicle.
The incident happened Wednesday at about 3:22 p.m. when officers from the Village of Caledonia Police Department conducted a traffic stop for a vehicle traveling 63 mph in a 45 mph zone. The driver was identified by her driver’s license, and two rear passengers who were not wearing seatbelts were asked to identify themselves and were later removed from the vehicle, police said.
The front passenger, who police say lawfully declined to identify himself, recorded a video on his cell phone that was later posted to social media with the caption, "Cop caught in 4K planting evidence."
It shows an officer appear to toss something in the back seat, before the front passenger tells him, "I got you on camera, bro." The officer responds, "I got you on camera, we’re all good."
Hey buddy, you just threw that in here," the passengers says, filming a plastic bag in the back seat.
Village of Caledonia Chief of Police Christopher Botsch on Saturday released two clips of body camera footage, each taken from separate officers at the scene, adding more context to what happened.
He said the first video shows officers search one of the rear passengers outside the vehicle and an "empty corner tear," or corner of a plastic baggie, was found in the passenger’s pocket.
"The empty corner tear did NOT contain any illegal substance; however, this type of packaging is a common method for holding illegal drugs," Botsch said in a summary of events shared to Facebook.
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"You will see this more and more as people try to set up police so they can sue and then buy them a house in one of those dreadful White Supremacist neighborhoods."
Thanks for posting this. I saw the video posted by the passenger. It sure made the cop look bad. This article clears things up, I guess.
The reaction of the driver and passengers suggests very strongly that they knew drugs HAD been in the plastic, and they were covering themselves in case the drugs or traces were still there.
Hopefully, this means more charges.
> The reaction of the driver and passengers suggests very strongly that they knew drugs HAD been in the plastic... <
That’s the part I still don’t understand. Why would someone be carrying around a single empty corner tear? Let’s say drugs were in the plastic. Wouldn’t whoever bought those drugs get the container too?
A lot of people got set up at the US Capitol on January 6th so I guess both sides the police and those they accuse of crimes will be ratcheting up their tactics to help their version of events prevail.
The drugs are everywhere, the booze and so on so people are crazy and the cops are under a lot of pressure which hurts their sanity as well.
Thanks for posting this.
As there is almost no coverage found in the national media then we depend on good people like you to see these for us.
Again guessing, but seems likely drugs for personal use had been in the plastic, but being dopers, the car occupants would have been confused about whether some was still “holding”.
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