Two law officers in Georgiaare on administrative leaveafter using a coin flip app to decide whether to arrest a char for allegedly speeding . trunk camera footageobtained by WXIA - TVshows ship’s officer Courtney Brown and Kristee Wilson questioning , and ultimately detaining the cleaning woman . Brown let in in the recording that she does n’t have equipment to define the cleaning woman ’s precise speed .
The footage also reveals Wilson setting the terms of a simulated coin toss : If it landed head , they ’d collar the woman ; fag end , they ’d issue her . The char “ won”—if that ’s even the appropriate word of honor given what a mockery of criminal justness this full scenario is — but it did n’t matter . The officeholder arrested her on electric charge of speeding , reckless driving , and motor too tight for precondition .
ABC Newsaired a segmenton the entire ordeal using video ply by the officers ’ consistence photographic camera :

This is n’t the only case of officers ’ own cameras ’ let on wrongful conduct . In LA last twelvemonth , two officers filmedthemselves ostensibly planting cocaine on a suspect . And in Baltimore , Officer Richard Pinheiro filmed himselfseemingly planting drugsin an defendant ’s thousand , only to false footage of “ finding ” them moments later . This have dozens of cases connect to Pinheiro to be dropped and eventually lead to a department - all-encompassing statement telling cops to see submitted camera footage unwrap “ all of the circumstances surround the recovery of evidence . ”
On Monday , all charges against the coin toss arrestee were drop .
[ WXIA - TVviaDaily Dot ]

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