Footage released on Thursday showed Baltimore police officer Richard Pinheiro apparently planting drugs in an abandoned yard. The footage was shot in January on the officer's body camera and showed two of Pinheiro's colleagues witnessing him place a bag of drugs in a yard full of trash. After leaving the area, Pinheiro turns his camera on manually and returns alone, to appear as if he just discovered the drugs. The sound turns on half-way through the footage when the officer activates the body camera himself. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/8i84

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