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Baltimore Police Officer Caught on Video Planting Drugs

HeadlineJul 20, 2017

Back in the U.S., in Baltimore, Maryland, one police officer has been suspended and two others placed on desk duty, after newly surfaced body camera video appeared to show one of the officers planting drugs during an arrest last January. In the video, the officer—identified by public defenders as Richard Pinheiro—is seen stashing a soup container in a lot strewn with garbage as two of his colleagues look on. The officer then returns to the site and removes a plastic bag full of white capsules from the container. The officer was apparently unaware of a feature of his camera that stored 30 seconds of extra footage ahead of the moment he activated the device. After the video’s release, prosecutors dropped heroin possession charges against a man who had been held in jail since January.

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