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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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There are three things I always forget. Names, faces -- the third I
can't remember.
-- Italo Svevo
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 21 2017, @02:02PM (6 children)
I think everyone should own a bolo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(tank) [wikipedia.org] I'd be happy with anything from a Mark 25 on up.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday July 21 2017, @03:07PM (4 children)
This is the most ridiculous fan-wank I've ever read. Where to start... :P
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by darnkitten on Saturday July 22 2017, @04:26AM
Yeah, it is over the top--but the Bolo series is a fun read if you like pulp milskiff -- sort of Hammer's Slammers meets I, Robot (Asimov's book, not the movie, and I'm sickened that I felt I had to clarify).
(Score: 1) by Sabriel on Saturday July 22 2017, @07:29AM (2 children)
And yet they fit the scale of their setting - the Mark 33 Bolo was deployed in in an escalating war between two technologically-advanced interstellar civilizations, and it wasn't a wanked one-side battle; both sides badly misunderstood and underestimated each other and both sides suffered MAD as a consequence, with only a few lost colonies on either side surviving out on the fringes of thousands of lifeless radioactive worlds.
Think less "Humanity Fuck Yeah" and more "Heroism Involves Sacrifice". The Bolos were technologically superior but the Enemy were close enough that they made up for the disparity in weight of numbers, and after enough nukes get thrown nobody wins because the battlefield is where you live.
Good stories - the action hooks you in, the moral is taught during the ride.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday July 24 2017, @04:29PM (1 child)
Is there a particular reason why Earth is using tanks on the ground instead of spacecraft? Or is it just handwaved with "they got blown up."
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1) by Sabriel on Wednesday July 26 2017, @10:45AM
The author focused almost entirely on Bolos on the ground in his stories (the whole "last stand" thing), but there were spacecraft (with Bolo AI) as well. Though "on the ground" gets a little hazy as the technology advances and antigrav becomes a thing. Towards the end of the war the most advanced Bolos basically used the planets they were "on" as concealment/cover and were quite capable of reaching space / engaging approaching spacecraft, and had the war continued I suspect eventually there might not have been a distinction between "ground" and "space" Bolos.
But yes, mostly the space forces got blown up.
(Score: 2) by DutchUncle on Friday July 21 2017, @08:16PM
I should have some interesting conclusions to communicate to my human superiors, when the time comes. At peace, I await the arrival of the relief column.