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Baltimore Cops Carried Toy Guns to Plant on People They Shot

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When those who are chosen to enforce the law choose instead to violate the law, one might begin to wonder why a municipality has a high crime rate.

Baltimore Cops Carried Toy Guns to Plant on People They Shot

One officer involved in the city's massive corruption scandal said officers kept the replicas "in case we accidentally hit somebody or got into a shootout, so we could plant them."

Last week, the beginning of an explosive corruption trial involving eight members of Baltimore's elite Gun Trace Task Force revealed that a handful of Baltimore cops allegedly kept fake guns in their patrol cars to plant on innocent people—a failsafe they could use if they happened to shoot an unarmed suspect, the Baltimore Sun reports.
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The revelation is just one of many egregious abuses that have come out of the sprawling trial that the Sun has called "Baltimore’s biggest police corruption scandal in memory." Prosecutors say the squad, which was tasked with getting illegal guns off the streets, abused its power by robbing suspects and innocent people, raiding homes without warrants, and selling confiscated drugs, among other crimes.

But the BB gun testimony is particularly disturbing in light of 12-year-old Tamir Rice's death in 2014, the 13-year-old in Baltimore who was shot twice by cops in 2016 after he allegedly sprinted from them with a replica gun in his hand, and the 86 people fatally shot by police in 2015 and 2016 who were spotted carrying toy guns.

Six of the eight task force members charged in the corruption scandal have pleaded guilty to racketeering charges, but Taylor and Detective Daniel Hersl have pleaded not guilty. They're currently on trial while several of their former partners testify against them.
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More on the case from the Baltimore Sun -- Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force corruption case heads to court Monday

I wonder why the FBI was recording these guys -- FBI had recording device in police car

Notable testimony from the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force corruption trial, updated with Day 6
 
But the BB gun testimony is particularly disturbing in light of 12-year-old Tamir Rice's death in 2014, the 13-year-old in Baltimore who was shot twice by cops in 2016 after he allegedly sprinted from them with a replica gun in his hand, and the 86 people fatally shot by police in 2015 and 2016 who were spotted carrying toy guns.
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First Tamir Rice happened in Cleveland not Baltimore.

Besides that the abuse of the task force in Baltimore is very disturbing. Hopefully, they will get the punishment they deserve.
 
Its what happens when they get rid of good cops like Mcnulty and Lester Freamon...
 
This "plant a gun to cover your ass" tactic is very old in LE history, but you would think as old as it is, they would have more checks and balances to detect it.

Bill Jordan, a Louisiana cop who wrote a book about gun fighting called "No Second Place Winner" mentions planting guns on accidental shooting victims like it is some noble act.
His book was very popular in LEO circles.
I will look for a link.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1353982.No_Second_Place_Winner
 
Somerville said:
When those who are chosen to enforce the law choose instead to violate the law, one might begin to wonder why a municipality has a high crime rate.



More on the case from the Baltimore Sun -- Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force corruption case heads to court Monday

I wonder why the FBI was recording these guys -- FBI had recording device in police car

Notable testimony from the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force corruption trial, updated with Day 6
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I doubt this is normal corruption. This doesn’t sound like cops looking to just get away with shooting someone by accident. Sounds more like something else is going on. I wonder if they are involved in organized criminal activity.


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when these 'bad cops' are discovered put them in prison for life; that is all they are worth ...........
 
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