A Baltimore pig plants drugs while his fellow pigs look on.. But gets caught by his own bodycam…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVSgMCx3R7k

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mikehayes/police-drug-video?utm_term=.nc8pVRNZB#.aovoaPM0w
This Shocking Video Appears To Show Baltimore Police Planting Drugs At A Crime Scene

The defendant charged in the case involving the drugs shown in the video was scheduled to go to trial this week. The case has been dropped.

Shocking footage from a Baltimore police officer’s body-worn camera appears to show the cop planting drugs at the scene of a crime that officials have confirmed was used to implicate a defendant scheduled to face trial on the charges this week.

In the video, the police officer appears to place a bag of pills under some garbage in an alley. He then walks back out to the street, at which point he activates the body camera. But because the cameras are programmed to capture the 30 seconds prior to activation, the officer’s actions before returning from the alley were recorded.

“I’m going to check here,” he can be heard saying, before he walks back down the alley. After furrowing around in the trash for a couple seconds, the officer locates the bag inside a soup can and exclaims “yo!” as he holds it up to his two fellow officers.

Fox Baltimore reports that the defendant who was arrested in connection with the false drug bust was scheduled to face trial this week, but the charges were dropped after the man’s public defender reviewed the video and alerted the prosecutor.

According to Fox Baltimore, the prosecutor told the defendant’s lawyer that they were “appalled” by the footage and dropped the case the next day.

But the Baltimore Sun is also reporting that the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office that was prosecuting the case offered the defendant a plea deal after reviewing the footage.

“We take allegations like this very seriously and that’s why we launched an internal investigation into the accusations," a spokesperson for the Baltimore Police said in a statement to BuzzFeed News. "We are fortunate to have body-worn cameras which provide a perspective of the events as reported.”

BuzzFeed News has also reached out to the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s office and the Baltimore public defender.

http://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/exclusive-baltimore-police-camera-shows-officer-may-have-manipulated-evidence
Baltimore police also issued a statement:

“We take allegations like this very seriously and that’s why we launched an internal investigation into the accusations. We are fortunate to have Body Worn Cameras which provide a perspective of the events as reported.”

Police would not say if the officer in question is on active duty while the internal investigation is underway.









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  • Moore7s
    Moore7s Members Posts: 452 ✭✭✭✭✭
    More interested to see if the governing body punishes them

    We know local cops get off. I'm just taking notes on the variety of things theyre allowed to get away with
  • skpjr78
    skpjr78 Members Posts: 7,311 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kys if you're shocked
  • qawshun
    qawshun Members Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Smh he'll still have a job
  • Trillfate
    Trillfate Members Posts: 24,008 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Those inpcompetent ? piggas dont even know how there own body cams work
  • rickmogul
    rickmogul Members Posts: 1,961 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sick,SICK SICK ? HUNKIES! Devil's children. Hate is always appropriate when dealing with them. Born evil Muthafukaz!
  • VulcanRaven
    VulcanRaven Members Posts: 18,859 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They always start the article off with "shocking", ? no it isn't. It's the daily routine of the bacon squad.
  • Ip man
    Ip man Members Posts: 995 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wait, one them cops named Jamal? Black cop?
  • skpjr78
    skpjr78 Members Posts: 7,311 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ip man wrote: »
    Wait, one them cops named Jamal? Black cop?

    Black cops ain't ? in Baltimore either. Did you forget about Freddie Grey? Black cops ain't ? in this country period.

    "But on the other hand without a gun they can't get none.
    And don't let it be a black and a white one.
    'Cause he'll slam you down to the street top
    Black police showing out for the white cop."
    Ice Cube
  • stringer bell
    stringer bell Members Posts: 26,212 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ip man wrote: »
    Wait, one them cops named Jamal? Black ? cop?

    Fixed...
  • janklow
    janklow Members, Moderators Posts: 8,613 Regulator
    bossdon201 wrote: »
    Those body cams need to be on from the time they clock in until the time they clock out. Only time it should be off is during lunch and ? breaks. If you're not ? you have nothing to hide. If somehow it doesn't work during the time of a killing or bust then the officer needs to face serious legal punishment. Plain and simple.
    i just want to know why a hard blue state still mysteriously doesn't seem to give a ? about how its policing works...

  • stringer bell
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    edited August 2017
    http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-body-camera-detail-20170801-story.html
    Public defender's office describes second flagged police body camera video in more detail

    The office of the Baltimore Public Defender on Tuesday released a fuller description of a second police body-camera video that it publicly flagged as concerning on Monday.

    The office on Monday said the video “appears to depict multiple officers working together to manufacture evidence.” On Tuesday, it said the footage — which is a series of body-camera videos — shows multiple officers thoroughly searching a car, including the driver’s area, and then turning their cameras off and back on in an unexplained way.

    “When the cameras come back on one officer is seen squatting by the driver’s seat area. The group of officers then wait approximately 30 seconds,” the public defender’s office said in a statement. “Shortly thereafter, another officer asks if the area by that compartment has been searched. Nobody responds, and the officer reaches in and locates a bag that appears to contain drugs right by where the prior officer was, and where the car had been thoroughly searched about a half an hour prior with absolutely no results.”

    The office said prosecutors in Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby’s office dropped charges related to the video against one of their clients on Monday.

    The office has declined to release the footage because they said it shows a co-defendant of their client, whom they do not represent and do not wish to publicly identify.

    The office’s announcement of the video Monday followed a news conference by Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby last week, in which she discussed two police body-camera videos that were under review.

    The first was the one previously released by the public defender’s office earlier this month. In that video, an officer can be seen placing a bag of alleged drugs among debris in a backyard lot, walking out to the street, activating his body camera — which had automatically recorded 30 seconds prior to activation — and then returning to the alley and recovering the same bag.

    Police suspended the officer, Officer Richard Pinheiro, and placed two others seen watching Pinheiro in the footage, Officers Hovhannes Simonyan and Jamal Brunson, on administrative duty pending an investigation.

    Police also released several other body-camera videos from that incident that they said showed officers legitimately finding drugs in the alley and on a buyer and a seller involved in an initial drug transaction that had prompted the police action that day. They said they were investigating, among other things, whether the video in question showed the officers “reenacting” a legitimate discovery of drugs in the backyard lot that had not initially been recorded as it should have been.

    The police union has urged caution in that case, warning against a rush to judgment prior to the conclusion of the multiple investigations.

    Mosby said she has dropped 34 felony drug and gun cases against defendants that rely on the testimony of the officers featured in that video. She said 77 additional cases are under review, while 12 will move forward on the strength of independent, corroborative evidence.

    The second body-camera video that Mosby mentioned last week was one that one of her prosecutors flagged as potentially concerning and forwarded on to the Internal Affairs division of the Baltimore Police Department, she said. She said prosecutors have been reviewing hundreds of cases linked to the officers in that video as well.


    Mosby’s office would not say whether that video was the same one announced by the public defender’s office on Monday. However, her office put out a statement urging caution in judging the video before an investigation was conducted. The public defender’s office slammed Mosby for a lack of transparency on the matter.

    T.J. Smith, a police spokesman, said the video announced by the public defender’s office on Monday was the same video as the one mentioned publicly by Mosby's office last week. It is under investigation, he said.

    Police have previously said that the video “involves two arrests and the recovery of drugs from a car during a traffic stop.”

    Police also said there is a gap in the video “before the final recovery of additional drugs” that is now being investigated.

    Smith said no officers have been reprimanded or had their status changed pending that investigation.

    The Baltimore pig department sure has a lot of these "few bad apples"...
  • Ghostdenithegawd
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    This ? is hilarious and not at the same time
  • D. Morgan
    D. Morgan Members Posts: 11,662 ✭✭✭✭✭
    During the Freddie Gray situation I lost sight of the bigger picture when it comes to black states attorneys and black people and the so called justice system. I say that because of this tweet. Although Marilyn Mosby is black the system is still ran by whites and racist. She still has to play the game of ? black people over to maintain and hold on to that position. She either saw or knew about that video and still to have anyone in that office under her offer that man a 3 year deal just shows the type ? she on and willing to do to further her career.

  • MR.CJ
    MR.CJ Members Posts: 64,689 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Ravens Owner needs to call out the cops
  • VIBE
    VIBE Members Posts: 54,384 ✭✭✭✭✭
    lol @ their explanation is pretty much this..

    "uh we forgot to turn on our cams, so we put the drugs back where we found them and turned on our cams, refound the drugs for the camera"