The Baltimore Police Department is facing fresh scrutiny as a second batch of police body-camera footage has emerged, this time allegedly showing officers involved in planting drugs in a car shortly before two people were arrested.
Prosecutors have decided not to pursue charges against the two defendants in connection with the November arrest and video, which the Office of Public Defender said “appears to depict multiple officers working together to manufacture evidence.” That video hasn’t been publicly released.
Last month, the public defender’s office released police video from a separate incident in January, in which an officer’s own camera shows him placing purported drugs in a trash-filled yard before returning moments later and retrieving the items.
Body cameras used in Baltimore are constantly recording and save the most recent 30 seconds of video when an officer activates the camera.
The revelations are the latest blow for Baltimore police. In February, seven officers in a gun unit were charged under federal racketeering law; two pleaded guilty in connection with robbery charges.
Source: Second Police Video in Baltimore Allegedly Shows Evidence Planting – WSJ
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