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A St. Louis man secretly recorded police attempting to blackmail him into framing an innocent person on a gun charge.
Terry Robinson, 21, was handcuffed and put into the back of a police car despite not having done anything wrong. Police, in an attempt to scare him into cooperating, pretended to drive him back to the station, so he recorded their conversation with his phone.
Robinson says these same two officers have been harassing him and asking him for the name of someone they can plant a gun on, reports KMOV.
"If you don't give me anything in the next 24 hours then I'll write this case up as you ran from me but you got away. But I know who you are and you had this gun," one of the officers told Robinson.
While in the cruiser, the young man asked for more time to find someone to set up. However, after he was let go he called his mother, who contacted Robinson's attorney.
The commander of the St. Louis Police Internal Affairs division tells KMOV he is taking the investigation into the blackmailing attempt very seriously.
