Watch: Dash Cam Catches Cop Apparently 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.

It appears as though the officer is planting drugs on the man, who just as much appears to be black. The video is said to have been widely distributed around Utica's black community, where this sort of thing may not be as unlikely as one would hope. 

The Utica Phoenix spoke to a black woman with a similar story:

A recent Phoenix interview of a Black female resident of Utica charges that police kicked in the front door of her home without a warrant. Inside, the woman’s 83 year old handicapped mother was subject to police swarming through her house while they, ‘waited for a warrant.’

The interviewed subject went on to explain that though she was allowed to enter when she returned home, to care for her terrified mother, police entered with a drug sniffing dog, once they were issued the warrant.  READ MORE