Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby said today that the now-infamous body cam footage of a city police officer placing a bag of drugs inside a soup can and then “finding” it wasn’t immediately noticeable when prosecutors were reviewing the footage early on.
“We looked at the videos when we first received them,” she said at a press conference, referring to all 10 available body cam videos from the January arrest. “This was something that wasn’t immediately visible or apparent to the assistant state’s attorney.”
She nevertheless defended her team’s reaction to the revelation of the footage, which appears to show Officer Richard Pinheiro placing the soup can with the bag of pills – suspected heroin, police revealed – into a dirty backyard in an alley, walking past two of his fellow officers, then going back and relocating it. Pinheiro’s questionable evidence-handling was captured on his own body camera, which records the first 30 seconds without audio before an officer activates it.
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