>>BALTIMORE IS IN THE MIDDLE OF ONE OF THE LARGEST POLICE
SCANDALS OF RECENT MEMORY, CERTAINLY OF MY MEMORY, AND AS
THIS CASE CONTINUES, SOME OF THE INFORMATION COMING OUT ABOUT
WHAT THESE COPS WERE GETTING UP TO IS PRETTY SHOCKING. THERE IS
A PARTICULAR SQUAD THAT HAD BEEN ACCOSTING DRUG DEALERS AND
STEALING MONEY, AND IT GOES EVEN PAST THAT, IT GETS INTO EXTREME
POLICE BRUTALITY TERRITORY, WE WANT TO GIVE YOU THE DETAILS --
>>SO CONCEIVABLY ONE PART OF THE SQUAD I GUESS COULD THEN
BUST THE OTHER PART OF THE SQUAD IF THEY WANTED TO --
>>SO WE DON'T KNOW FOR SURE YET IF ANYONE ACTUALLY USED THAT
ADVICE, ALTHOUGH THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT THEY DID --
>>THIS SORT OF ADVICE NOT ONLY STOPS YOU FROM UNDERSTANDING WHY
A SHOOTING HAPPENED OR WHY SOMEBODY WAS KILLED BY THE COPS,
BUT MIGHT MAKE IT MORE LIKELY TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE.
>>THIS PARTLY EXPLAINS ALL THE TOY GUNS YOU ALWAYS HEAR ABOUT
WHEN PEOPLE ARE SHOT. LIKE, OH, SOMEBODY WAS SHOT, BUT YOU CAN
UNDERSTAND, IT WAS AN INNOCENT MISUNDERSTANDING BECAUSE HE WAS
HOLDING A TOY GUN. I'M LIKE, THERE ARE THAT MANY TOY GUNS IN
THE WORLD? SOME OF THEM I'M SURE WERE REAL TOY GUNS, AND SOME OF
THEM APPARENTLY WERE NOT. AND THIS IS TOO COMMON.
>>OR WERE TOY GUNS BUT THEY WERE ACTUALLY THAT PERSON'S TOY GUN,
IT'S SORT OF A GET OUT OF JUSTICE FREE CARD FOR THE COPS
IN THAT CASE. BUT IF WE CAN GO BACK TO THE BUSTING THE DRUG
DEALERS FOR A SECOND, THE SUMS OF MONEY INVOLVED ARE PRETTY
BIG. AT ONE POINT THIS SQUAD STOP THE DRUG DEALER DURING A
TRAFFIC STOP, TOOK $6500 FROM HIM, APPARENTLY FOUND OUT WHERE
HIS HOME WAS, WENT THERE, BUSTED AND WITHOUT A WARRANT, AND TOOK
$100,000 OUT OF A SAFE WHICH WAS THEN JUST THERE'S I GUESS. HE'S
A CRIMINAL SO WHO IS HE GOING TO TURN TO, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT THE
COPS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING THERE. AND APPARENTLY IN SOME
CASES THEY WOULD STOP A DRUG DEALER AND ASK THEM FOR INSIDER
INFORMATION, SAYING THINGS LIKE IF YOU HAD A SQUAD, WHERE WOULD
YOU GO TO BREAK IN TO TRY TO GET MONEY OR DRUGS OR SOMETHING LIKE
THAT? SO THEY WERE SORT OF FLIPPING THE DRUG DEALERS NOT TO
SCORE ARRESTS BUT TO SCORE DRUGS AND CASH FOR THEIR OWN GAIN.
>>I WANT TO TALK ABOUT ONE OTHER THING THAT IS PARTICULARLY
TERRIBLE ABOUT THIS STORY. ONE OF THE REASONS THEY KEPT TOY
GUNS AROUND WAS TO PLANT THEM ON KIDS THEY WOULD SHOOT. THEY KNEW
THEY WOULD SOMETIMES GET INTO WHAT THEY CALLED SHOOTOUTS, OR
JUST FLAT OUT SHOOTING -- ONE OF THE THINGS THEY WOULD DO FOR
EXAMPLE TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF IT IS THEY WOULD DRIVE REALLY
FAST INTO A A CROWD OF PEOPLE OR KIDS THAT WERE STANDING AROUND
AND STOP SUDDENLY, AND WHOEVER RAN THEY WOULD CHASE. NOW, DO
THEY KNOW WHO WAS IN THE CROWD? NO. DO THEY HAVE ANY INFORMATION
ON THEM? NO. THEY DID IT JUST TO HARASS THESE PEOPLE, ETC., AND
THEN AS YOU SEEN IN SOME CASES, PEOPLE WOULD GET SHOT. AND
SOMETIMES FROM THE BACK. SO AFTER THEY SHOOT THEM, IF THEY
ARE KIDS, WHAT MAKES SENSE? OH, THEY HAD A TOY GUN. SO IT'S AS
BAD AS IT GETS. LOOK, SIX OUT OF THE EIGHT HAVE ALREADY PLED
GUILTY, SO THIS IS NOT CONJECTURE, THIS IS ABSOLUTE
REALITY. ONE OF THE TERRIBLE STORIES COMING OUT OF IT IS ONE
OF THE COPS WAS SET TO TESTIFY AGAINST THE OTHER COPS, THE
NIGHT BEFORE THE TESTIMONY HE WOUND UP GETTING SHOT BY HIS OWN
GUN. WHAT A COINCIDENCE. SO THEY HAVEN'T SOLVED THAT ONE YET --
MY GUESS IS IT IS RELATED TO THE COPS HE WAS GOING TO TESTIFY
AGAINST.