An unsubstantiated claim made by a man as part of a plea deal.
Detective Maurice Ward, who’s already pleaded guilty to corruption charges, testified that he and his partners were told to carry the replicas and BB guns “in case we accidentally hit somebody or got into a shootout, so we could plant them.”
Let’s see if anything comes out that actually substantiates the claim.
¯_(ツ)_/¯ Drop weapons have been a common thing in the Baltimore PD for decades.
Hell, the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets which was written almost thirty years ago talks about it. An anecdote in the book dating to the 80s is about a group of detectives and one shoots a guy thinking he had a knife and suddenly there are five knives on the ground. The one cop says, “I found his knife” and the guy who got shot, with one in the leg but otherwise unharmed, says, “That’s not my knife, that one is my knife.”
It’s political schizophrenia. They want the gov’t to have all the guns and the power but at the same time detest the agents of the state who would have both.
People who are unlawfully and unethically using their positions in gov’t to attack the political opposition need to be outed, exposed, removed from those positions and where possible prosecuted.
Police who unlawfully and unethically using their positions in gov’t to attack and plant weapons on the public need to be outed, exposed, removed from those positions and where possible prosecuted