Body camera footage of the Buffalo police arrest of Morgan Eaton, who was charged with possession of a controlled substance when police mistook his fiancee's yeast infection suppositories for cocaine. Officers Andrew Moffett and John Davidson do paperwork on the back of the car as Eaton is under arrest inside.
Recently obtained documents reveal that the Buffalo Police Internal Affairs team accused two officers of lying to an investigator, under oath, about the bogus cocaine charge they lodged against a Black motorist last year.
At a protest on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, outside the Erie County District Attorney's Office, Morgan Eaton and a group of protesters demanded that District Attorney John Flynn prosecute Buffalo police officers involved in the March 8, 2020, arrest of Eaton on a cocaine possession charge, despite a field test conducted by police that showed the capsules he possessed were not cocaine.
Morgan Eaton on Strauss Street in Buffalo, where he was stopped in March by the police and charged with a felony of cocaine possession. Buffalo police body camera video shows the officers conducted a field test that determined the pills did not contain cocaine, but arrested him anyway. Eaton has since sued the city and the police officers.
Body camera footage of the Buffalo police arrest of Morgan Eaton, who was charged with possession of a controlled substance when police mistook his fiancee's yeast infection suppositories for cocaine. Officers Andrew Moffett and John Davidson do paperwork on the back of the car as Eaton is under arrest inside.
At a protest on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, outside the Erie County District Attorney's Office, Morgan Eaton and a group of protesters demanded that District Attorney John Flynn prosecute Buffalo police officers involved in the March 8, 2020, arrest of Eaton on a cocaine possession charge, despite a field test conducted by police that showed the capsules he possessed were not cocaine.
Morgan Eaton on Strauss Street in Buffalo, where he was stopped in March by the police and charged with a felony of cocaine possession. Buffalo police body camera video shows the officers conducted a field test that determined the pills did not contain cocaine, but arrested him anyway. Eaton has since sued the city and the police officers.
