Phoenix Cop Videotaped Planting Evidence On Homeless Woman

The same officer now faces Murder charges for killing an unarmed man.

Frame shows one Phoenix cop handing the planted evidence to the other; at 1:19 on the video.

(PHOENIX, Az.) - It took five years to finally be released to the public, but video of a Phoenix Police officer planting evidence on an innocent homeless woman Thursday was well timed. Well timed that is, to coincide with a Murder charge against the same cop, a Phoenix officer named Richard Chrisman.

Police released the video Thursday showing Chrisman arresting a woman right next the medical examiner's office in Phoenix.

Security guards inside were watching him on surveillance video. What they saw bothered them so much, they turned the tape over to the police department.

In that 2005 incident, Chrisman and his partner arrested a homeless woman on an outstanding warrant.

According to the internal affairs investigation, Chrisman and his partner planted drug paraphernalia on the woman -- because they wanted to play a joke on the woman, who is mentally challenged.

Chrisman puts a brilo pad and pipe in his partner's left hand. His female partner then pretends to pull the pipe out of the woman's dress.

Chrisman said he knew the suspect, and just wanted to get a rise out of her. He was suspended for one day and put on the Brady List -- his partner was also suspended for one day and put on the Brady List.

The woman wasn't charged with anything related to the planted evidence.

Learn more about Officer Richard Chrisman here: Protest victory! Phoenix police officer Chrisman will be charged with murder for killing unarmed Latino youth

Source: liveleak.com