But it has become a flash point sparked by video from one of the officer’s body cameras. They are investigating whether the officer had legitimately found drugs but, realizing he had forgotten to turn on his body camera, reconstructed his find. His body camera captured both him hiding the drugs and then finding them. The Jan. 24 video shows the officers in the back of a vacant rowhouse. “Planted the drugs,” the public defender’s office said in a statement that made the video public.

Source: Washington Post July 20, 2017 01:16 UTC