Baltimore officer charged with faking video of drug find David Mcfadden, Associated Press Updated 5:

Source: Associated Press


David Mcfadden, Associated Press
Updated 5:59 pm, Wednesday, January 24, 2018

BALTIMORE (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a Baltimore police officer on charges of fabricating evidence and misconduct months after public defenders released a body camera video that they say shows him planting drugs in an empty soup can.

Baltimore's body-worn cameras save roughly 30 seconds of preceding video without audio whenever the devices are activated, so it's possible Officer Richard Pinheiro may have inadvertently recorded more than he intended to.

The released video has no sound as an officer appears to put the can in a trash-strewn lot and then return to two colleagues nearby. The audio then begins once the officer's fingers are seen in the camera lens and he walks down an alley to a sidewalk.

"I'm gonna go check here," he tells the other two officers as he returns to the lot, picks through some trash and then appears to discover the soup can, pulling out a baggie with white capsules inside. "Yo!" and "Hold up," he says before rejoining his colleagues.

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