Cop Appears To Plant Evidence During Totally Worth-It Traffic Stop

Police department says it "would discourage officers from discarding items into a citizen’s vehicle."

By Adam Ismail
Yesterday 12:29PM

A traffic stop last Wednesday outside Milwaukee in Caledonia, Wisconsin generated controversy on social media after a police officer was captured on video by one of the vehicle’s passengers throwing a baggie into the backseat of the stopped car while searching it.

According to a post on the Village of Caledonia Police Department’s Facebook page attributed to police chief Christopher Bosch, no arrests were made during this incident, and the driver was given a speeding citation for traveling 63 MPH in a 45 MPH zone. However, she and two rear-seat passengers were removed from the car, while the front-seat passenger, a Black man, remained in the vehicle.

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In the clip that’s circulating around Twitter captured by the front-seat passenger’s phone, one officer can be seen tossing an object into the back of the car before putting gloves on. The passenger asks “hey bro, what’s that?” The office responds “what’s what?” to which the passenger asks “what you just threw in here? I got you on camera, bro.”

The officer, seemingly unfazed, tells the passenger “I got you on camera, we’re all good.” The passenger turns around and centers the camera on the baggie that the officer had thrown onto the backseat, and the recording ends.

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