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Body Cam Records Baltimore Cop Planting Drugs While Two Others Watch

posted by martyb on Friday July 21 2017, @01:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the Alexa-don't-watch-me-do-crime dept.

Scrutinizer writes:

A Baltimore cop, identified as Richard Pinheiro, was recorded on video planting drugs then "finding" them moments later - in front of two other unnamed cops. The video was made possible due to Pinheiro's body camera being designed to keep the 30 seconds of video prior to it being "switched on".

Charges against the civilian suspect have been dropped; no word yet on any criminal charges against any of the three cops.

Also at Ars Technica, The Baltimore Sun, USA Today and vox.com.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Justin Case on Friday July 21 2017, @12:17PM (2 children)

    by Justin Case (4239) on Friday July 21 2017, @12:17PM (#542317) Journal

    Yet there are actually people on Wikipedia arguing that this is pretty normal and not notable and therefore the article about "just another cop shoots citizen" should be deleted. You know, to keep the peace or something.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shooting_of_Justine_Damond [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Friday July 21 2017, @12:43PM (1 child)

    by nobu_the_bard (6373) on Friday July 21 2017, @12:43PM (#542330)

    Many Wikipedians are for deletion of everything they possibly can. They basically won't be satisfied until Wikipedia is totally content free. Them wanting to delete it is not a huge surprise.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday July 21 2017, @09:10PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Friday July 21 2017, @09:10PM (#542575)

      Considering the recent parallels to the 1930s, burning virtual unpleasant books isn't exactly a shocker.