Now that's an interesting theory. I agree that what the police officer did on video sure doesn't look right. It looks like he was planting something. And, given that he'd just shot a man as he was running away, I wouldn't trust his story. This looks really, really bad.
My first thought is that the cop is dirty. But sometimes things aren't as they appear to be.
I happened to have witnessed something similar happen around 25 years ago while riding the subway home from work one late night. Only a few passengers were on the train. One was my coworker. And a very drunk man, probably homeless, was on the train, too, listening to his Walkman (a radio/tape player with headphones attached).
Someone must've alerted the subway police (known for being rough). I remember my coworker being annoyed by the man, as a matter of fact. The train stopped. The police walked on, removing this guy from the train and onto the platform.
As they're holding the man, I saw the guy stumble and fall, while the officer holding him was holding his Walkman. Picture the officer's hand grasping the radio and holding it up, to keep it from being pulled down with the headphones along with the man who'd just fallen.
That's what I saw.
But the other passengers, including my coworker, jumped up and yelled at the officers. They thought the cop had raised his hand to hit the man. Now I don't know what the police did after the train pulled away; they might've roughed him up then. But that's not what happened before our very eyes. The officer was holding a radio up, not planning to hit the man. My coworker, though, wouldn't listen to me the next day. She insisted that they were getting ready to beat him up right in front of us.
Anyway, with the wires attached, etc., your theory sounds similar.
Do cops just toss things into the crime scene like that before the investigators show up?
Especially such a crucial piece of evidence as the weapon that the dead man was supposed to have been killed for possessing, and which he didn’t actually possess?
Yeah, that’s exactly what I am getting at. We think we are seeing something that is obvious, but in reality it was something else.
The reason I think that there may be some possibility that moving the gun was legit is because he did it right in front of the second officer that arrived. He did make any attempt at all to disguise or hide the dropping of the taser there, so I am thinking that it is possible that too much is being made of that particular action.
That being said, I could be right, I could be wrong, I just don’t know, and I still state that I can see no reason in that video for the officer to shoot the man. I am just trying to understand why he moved that taser.