by Bob Walsh
Richard Pinheiro is a police officer with the city of Baltimore, MD. Back in January he participated in a drug bust. His own body camera showed him apparently planting drugs while his two fellow officers looked on. The video has just surfaced and the public defender's office is buying drinks all around.
Officer Pinheiro is a participant or a witness in 53 current cases and an unknown but considerable number of completed cases.
In the video it appears that Pinheiro attempted to turn off the body camera but was unsuccessful in doing so. He did manage to turn off the sound, but not the video.
I can't help but think that Pinheiro and his two road dogs are in deep trouble.
2 comments:
I just don't see the incentive for cops to plant evidence.
For your info, most narcotic enforcement units require you to produce results. And then there are the jerks who want to bask in the glory of a good dope bust.
Although I was accused of planting dope in many of my cases, it never crossed my mind to do so, even in drug raids where we found no dope at all, and even with suspects that all of us cops wanted to take off the streets in the worst way.
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