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From AlterNet:

Dash Cam Apparently Catches Cop Planting Evidence on Black Man

The Utica Phoenix has obtained a video that shows two police officers making a traffic stop. During this stop, the dash camera on the squad car catches one officer suspiciously pull something out of his back pocket before placing it inside the car he had been searching. The cop emerges shortly after, holding and slickly shining a flash light on the same object, as if he had just seen it for the first time. It looks a lot like a bag of drugs.

More here, with video.

This seems to be very much par for the course. The essay goes on to observe that, in the wake of a similar scandal in New York City involving multiple cops, this may very well be a widespread phenomenon, cops planting evidence, just so they can meet their bust quota. I don't have to explain to you why this is totally awful, but I'd be totally failing as a blogger if I didn't point out that in both cases, NYPD, and these Utica Bozos, the people being framed are black. I mean, I have no doubt that these cops would do it to white people, too, if they felt inclined to do so, but it seems to me that African Americans are easy targets in that when they enter the courts as defendants their skin color almost changes the presumption of innocence to one of guilt. That is, the whole freaking criminal justice system is aimed at black people, so this kind of bullshit is easier to pull off with them as victims.

Racism, corruption, abuse of power, this is all some sick fucking shit.

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