The body camera footage showing what appeared to be a Baltimore police officer planting drugs couldn’t have surfaced at a worse time for City Hall.
On Friday, Mayor Catherine Pugh was announcing she wants a one-year mandatory minimum sentence for illegal gun possession, a move critics saidsignaled a policy shift that would lead to unconstitutional police tactics.
Yesterday, Pugh’s police commissioner Kevin Davis was before reporters acknowledging the footage raised “serious” questions but floating an alternate scenario apparently intended to be mitigating: intentional re-enactment of drugs they earlier discovered there.
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