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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBaltimore cops carried toy guns to plant on shot suspects. This is why we kneel.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xvzwp/baltimore-cops-carried-toy-guns-to-plant-on-people-they-shot-trial-reveals-vgtrn
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Baltimore cops carried toy guns to plant on shot suspects. This is why we kneel. (Original Post)
Dawson Leery
Sep 2018
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Roland99
(53,345 posts)1. Damn, they got away with a lot for a long time.
babylonsister
(172,763 posts)2. This is disgusting. nt
john657
(1,058 posts)3. And cops wonder why the public views them with an intense distrust?
I'm as honest as they come, but I always get nervous when a cop gets behind me when I'm driving, I just don't trust cops.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)4. I always questioned the Cop's version
of Tamir Rice and the BB gun. His own family said that they had never seen it.
Now, I can't help but wonder . . .
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)5. Years ago they busted a bunch of City of Miami cops doing the same thing.
But they used real guns which they kept in squad cars and referred to as 'the sock.' As in "oops I shot a guy for no reason, go get the sock."
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)6. This Should Be Front Page News ,Kapernick Has It Right...
Disgusting
Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)7. kick