A
BALTIMORE POLICE OFFICER IS SUSPENDED AND ALSO FACING AN
INVESTIGATION AFTER HE ACCIDENTALLY FOUND HIMSELF
PLANTING DRUGS.
AT LEAST IT APPEARS SO.
THE INVESTIGATION
WILL DETERMINE IF HE DID SO INTENTIONALLY.
I WANT TO SHOW
YOU THE VIDEO QUICKLY.
THERE WAS NO SOUND, BUT YOU CAN PAY
ATTENTION TO HIM GOING TO THE SCENE OF WHERE HE ALLEGED TO
HAVE FOUND THE DRUGS.
SO HE WALKS AWAY, THIS IS AFTER HE
PLANTED THE DRUGS.
IT WAS A BAGGIE FULL OF PILLS THAT HAD A
HEROINE.
NOW HE IS TURNING IT OFF.
NOW HE THINKS HE IS TURNING
IT ON, HE DIDN'T REALIZE THE CAMERA WAS ALREADY ON.
NOW HE'S
GOING BACK TO PRETEND LIKE HE FOUND IT.
NOT HERE, NOT THERE.
WHERE IS IT?
AT LEAST HE TAKES A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO PRETEND.
HE HAS REHEARSED THIS.
AND THERE IT IS.
THOSE WERE CAPSULES THAT WERE FILLED WITH HEROIN.
LUCKILY HE
DID GET CAUGHT BECAUSE OF HIS OWN NEGLIGENCE.
HE DIDN'T
REALIZE HE WAS FILMING HIMSELF PLANTING THE DRUGS.
THAT IS
SOMETHING THAT SHOULD CONCERN EVERYONE.
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF
OTHER CASES WHERE HE CLAIMS TO HAVE FOUND CONTRABAND OR ILLICIT
THINGS.
THESE CASES ARE NOW GOING TO BE BROUGHT THE QUESTION
BECAUSE OF HIS LACK OF CREDIBILITY.
IT HURTS POLICE WORK THAT IS BEING DONE ON THE STREETS EVERY
DAY.
JUST LIKE POLICE VIOLENCE HURTS ALL THE GOOD CUPS.
IN THIS
INSTANCE, ONE OFFICER HAS BEEN SUSPENDED, TWO HAVE BEEN PLACED
ON THE BLISTERED OF DUTY.
BUT IT IS CLEAR WHAT IS GOING ON HERE.
THE ONES PLACED ON ADMINISTERED OF DUTY WERE THE
ONES PRESENT.
IF THEY WERE COMPLICIT, I THINK
THEY SHOULD BE SUSPENDED AS WELL.
YOU ARE PLANTING DRUGS
WHICH WILL RUIN THE LIFE OF AN INNOCENT PERSON.
SO STUPID.
I
HOPE THE INVESTIGATION TRIES TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS.
THE
LAWYER WHO WAS RESENTING HIM IS TRYING TO MAKE THE CASE THAT
MAYBE HE DIDN'T PLANT DRUGS, MAYBE HE WAS JUST TRYING TO SHOW
POLICE WORK IN ACTION, LIKE WHAT IT WAS LIKE WHEN HE DISCOVERED
IT.
WHAT?
WE WILL SEE.
THEY WILL DO THE INVESTIGATION ñ
THEY ARE THROWING EVERYTHING UP AGAINST THE WALL TO SEE
WHAT STICKS.
THIS TACTIC IS AGE-OLD AS ñ COMEDIANS TALK ABOUT IT IN
JOKING WAYS.
IT HAS BEEN HAPPENING FOR SO LONG.
PEOPLE
ARE PACIFIED BY THE FACT THAT THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE BODY
CAMERAS.
AS WE SEE EVEN IN MANIPULATING THE BODY CAMERA
FOOTAGE, YOU CAN GO I THINK I TURNED IT OFF.
SO HE THOUGHT IT
WAS OFF BECAUSE HE TURNED IT OFF, BUT THERE IS A 32ND BUFFER
WERE IT RECORDS WHAT HAPPENED 30 SECONDS BEFORE, OR KEEPS A LOOP.
SO IT KEPT WHAT HE DID.
I DON'T KNOW WHY THERE'S BUTTONS ON THE
BODY CAN FOOTAGE IF THEY CAN JUST TURN IT OFF AND ON.
AGREED.
I AGREE WHEN YOU GIVE THEM THE ABILITY TO TURN THEM ON AND
OFF, OF COURSE YOU WILL HAVE INSTANCES OF ABUSE.
SOMEONE
BROUGHT UP A REALLY GREAT POINT ABOUT BODY CAMERAS.
I THINK THE
REASON WHY IT IS IMPORTANT IS BECAUSE LET'S SAY A WOMAN HAS
JUST BEEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AND THEY DON'T WANT TO BE ON CAMERA.
THEY FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE BEING ON CAMERA.
I THINK HAVING THAT
OPTION IS IMPORTANT.
I THINK THERE SHOULD BE HEAVY SCRUTINY
WHEN THERE IS A COP RELATED SHOOTING OF AN UNARMED PERSON.
I REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED ñ ON THIS SHOW CENK AND I WERE
TALKING ABOUT HOW AT LEAST THERE IS ACCOUNTABILITY.
THERE IS JUST
TOO MUCH EVIDENCE AND TOO MUCH PREVIOUS BAD INTENT BUILT UP FOR
PEOPLE TO BELIEVE THAT IT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN THE WAY WE ARE
SEEING IT HAPPEN.
BUT EVEN AFTER WE SEE HAPPEN WE WILL STILL SAY
WELL, IT WAS JUST HIM.
YOU DIDN'T SEE ONE OF THEM TRIED TO
STOP HIM.
HOW MANY OTHER COPS HAVE WATCHED HIM DO THIS?
WHY GIVE HIM THE OPTION?
I AM ALSO TORTURED BY THE SEXUAL ABUSE PART OF THE BODY
CAM SITUATION.
I THINK IT HAS TO BE ON ALL THE TIME.
AND IT COULD
BE AN INNOCENT THING THAT THEY FORGET TO TURN IT ON.
I'M
WONDERING IN THE CASE OF A SEXUAL ABUSE SITUATION WHERE
THEY CAN CALL IN AND GET SOME KIND OF SPECIAL APPROVAL TO TURN
THE CAMERA OFF.
I THINK THAT IS THE CATEGORY IT HAS TO FALL
INTO.
IT IS TOO VALUABLE I THINK.
I KNOW IT GOES ON ALL THE
TIME, BUT THIS BODY CAM DOES REPRESENT A CHANCE TO KEEP COPS
HONEST AND TO HELP THEM OUT IN SITUATIONS WHERE PEOPLE
DON'T TRUST THEIR WORD.
HAVING THAT EVIDENCE ON YOU TO PROVE THAT YOU DIDN'T DO
ANYTHING NEFARIOUS IS IMPORTANT.
I DO WANT TO TOUCH ON WHAT YOU
SAID JAYAR JACKSON BECAUSE I AGREE WITH YOU.
IT'S NOT JUST THE
COP THAT WAS PLANTING THE DRUGS, IT WAS ALSO THE TWO COPS WITH
HIM THAT WERE OKAY WITH WHAT WAS GOING ON.
THEY ARE ON
ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE.
THEY HAVE NOT EVEN BEEN SUSPENDED.
THAT
KIND OF SENDS THE MESSAGE THAT THEY ARE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO
FACE ANY SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES.
AND I THINK THEY SHOULD.
YOU ARE
MESSING WITH INNOCENT PEOPLE'S LIVES, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CRAZY
CULTURE WHERE DRUG USE IS CRIMINALIZED AND WE HAVE INSANE
DRACONIAN SENTENCES.
EVEN IF YOU LOOK AT IT AS THEY ARE NOT AN INNOCENT PERSON,
THEY PLANTED THIS TO TAG A GUY WHO WAS A KNOWN DRUG DEALER, I
GET IT.
TRACK HIM WITH STUFF THAT IS EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM.
DO REAL WORK AND CATCH HIM DOING SOMETHING ILLEGAL.