[LMAO!] Bodycam shows Baltimore police officer planting drugs

[BrometheusBob.]

The public defender’s office, which released the footage, said it was recorded by an officer during a drug arrest in January. It shows the officer placing a soup can, which holds a plastic bag, into a trash-strewn lot.

That portion of the footage was recorded automatically, before the officer activated the camera. After placing the can, the officer walks to the street, and flips his camera on.

“I’m gonna go check here,” the officer says. He returns to the lot and picks up the soup can, removing the plastic bag, which is filled with white capsules.

Police cameras have a feature that saves the 30 seconds of video before activation, but without audio. When the officer is first in the alley, there is no audio for the first 30 seconds.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...719-story.html



I so hard at the cop saying "I'm gonna go check here" and then playing dumb and looking around like he didn't know exactly where the drugs were.

The lesson of course is - if you wanna plant drugs you should take longer than 30 seconds to do so before looking for them.

[Eff Pandas]

F#ck the police.

Hope this guy gets sent to prison to get raped or murdered in his cell, but lucky for him at worst he'll get fired & get a gig at Hertz renting cars for the next 30 years.

[BrometheusBob.]

**** your 30 day break Motorcity Cobra and come look at this shiet right here

If not for the bodycam the guy would have gotten time in the slammer, forever damaging his future. And he'd have been included in some crime statistics that posters here would refer to.

The man, unable to post $50,000 bail, had been in jail since January,

6 dam months this guy will never get back

[BrometheusBob.]

Here is an even fuller video of the arrest

Around 3:15 they cuff the guy, go out back and look around for a bit. Then they turn off the cam, plant the drugs, turn it back on, and discover the drugs. Fortunately they didn't know the cam holds a 30 second buffer of what happened before it was activated.



They turn on and off the bodycam multiple times over the course of the film (each 30 second audio-less buffer is what happened before cam was turned on), clearly trying to shape a narrative.

[Elroy The Great]

shame every profession doesnt require body cams

[Sup]

Wonder if he'll face any jail time or is it the usual paid leave?

[Hmabshir]

Sooner or later the people will stand up against these home grown terrorists who are just the legalized version of al qaeda.

[Sup]

Baltimore police countered with a more complicated explanation. They are investigating whether the officer had legitimately found drugs but, realizing he had forgotten to turn on his body camera, reconstructed his find. His body camera captured both him hiding the drugs and then finding them. Authorities said that would be improper but would not be an effort to make a false arrest of an innocent citizen.

Looks like they're rolling with the officer "reconstructing" the find because he forgot to turn on his cam on the initial find.

[BrometheusBob.]

Looks like they're rolling with the officer "reconstructing" the find because he forgot to turn on his cam on the initial find.

If this explanation turns out to be true, this situation still speaks to the need to keep the bodycam on the entire time it's worn. It shouldn't ever be necessary to 'reconstruct' the find and shouldn't be possible to turn on and off the cam in order to create a false narrative.

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I dunno if he was "reenacting" what had just transpired or planting the drugs (it would be kind of strange for everyone there to just stand there smiling if he was planting them), but it should not be legal for cops to turn their bodycams on and off like that.

I'm generally "pro-cop" but when you're in uniform you're the hand of the state and your privacy kinda goes out the window. They should be allowed to turn them off a few times a day to poop or have private conversations within the department but it should be rolling 100% tamperproof when they're on patrol.