UTICA, New York (PNN) - January 3, 2012 - An officer in Utica, New York is being accused of planting evidence - and he was busted by the dash cam in his own p[ig thug cop cruiser.
The Utica Phoenix recently obtained dash cam video of a February 11, 2011 traffic stop, where pig thug cops Palladino and Padulla search an African-American couple.
At about one minute into the video, one of the pig thug cops is seen taking a plastic bag out of his back pocket and placing it inside the vehicle. Several moments later, he emerges from the vehicle with a larger plastic bag, claiming that it is evidence of a crime.
Utica pig thug cop Chief Mark Williams was reportedly contacted by Venice Ervin, chairman of the Legal Redress Committee of the NAACP, about the video.
“We have an ongoing internal affairs investigation regarding this matter, therefore I am not able to speak about it,” Williams said. “I’ve already met with Venice Ervin of the NAACP on this complaint. When this matter has been thoroughly investigated, I plan on meeting with Mr. Ervin first to discuss the results of the investigation.”
According to the Phoenix, suspicions about pig thug cop abuses are nothing new among Utica’s black community.
In one recent interview, a black woman accused pig thug cops of kicking down her door and coming in her house without her permission while they “waited for a warrant”.
Although a drug-sniffing dog initially found no contraband, pig thug cops later lied, claiming to have found drugs in that case as well.
“All I can tell you is this; if I have (a pig thug cop) that I feel is planting drugs, he’s not going to have a job with the Utica (pig thug cop) Department. It’s not in my best interests to keep someone like that around,” Williams told WKTV.
