{"id":321761,"date":"2017-08-15T12:29:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T11:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/baltimore-more-videos-released-showing-police-officers-manufacturing-evidence\/"},"modified":"2017-08-15T12:29:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T11:29:32","slug":"baltimore-more-videos-released-showing-police-officers-manufacturing-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/baltimore-more-videos-released-showing-police-officers-manufacturing-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore: More videos released showing police officers \u201cmanufacturing evidence\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Baltimore: More videos released showing police officers \u201cmanufacturing evidence\u201d<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Adam Soroka<br \/>\n    <br \/>15 August 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Baltimore public defender\u2019s office released footage showing several Baltimore police officers appearing to collude while planting drugs at a traffic stop. <\/p>\n<p>The new video was taken during a traffic stop last November and made public early this month. Shamere Collins, 35, was pulled over after a police officer allegedly witnessed her passenger conduct a drug deal. In the video, several officers are shown to be searching the front driver\u2019s side of Collins\u2019 car, then the camera goes off, then on again, without explanation.<\/p>\n<p>In the next video clip, an officer asks if the driver\u2019s side area has been searched, only then to find a bag of marijuana and heroin in the area that had been searched thoroughly in the previous clip.<\/p>\n<p>Collins\u2019 attorney, Josh Insley, released the footage stating it showed officers engaging \u201cin what appears to be the staged recovery of narcotics.\u201d In an interview with NBC, Collins admitted to recreational marijuana use but was dumbfounded when police pulled heroin from her car. \u201cMy mind\u2014I went numb-like\u2014I didn\u2019t know what was going on,\u201d she said. \u201cThey [were] telling me I was facing time and all this &#8230; so it\u2019s like I felt numb. I didn\u2019t know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The footage came just a week after a previous video, again released by the public defender\u2019s office, showed an officer planting a bag of pills under a pile of garbage in an alley as two other officers looked on. The officer planting the drugs in the first video has been suspended while the other two are on administrative leave. As a result, 41 drug and gun cases that relied on the officers\u2019 testimony were dropped.<\/p>\n<p>In both videos,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/08\/15\/balt-a15.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Baltimore: More videos released showing police officers \u201cmanufacturing evidence\u201d By Adam Soroka 15 August 2017 Earlier this month, the Baltimore public defender\u2019s office released footage showing several Baltimore police officers appearing to collude while planting drugs at a traffic stop. The new video was taken during a traffic stop last November and made public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-321761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}