WATCH: Cop Allegedly Pistol-Whips Man

Surveillance footage taken outside a Maryland convenience store appears to show a flash of light as a police officer with a loaded gun pistol-whips an unsuspecting man.

The video, recorded last February in Brentwood, calls into question Prince George's County police officer Donal Taylor's claim that 19-year-old Ryan Dorm -- who spent four months in jail following the encounter -- fought for the weapon as the officer approached. The gun appears to discharge as it strikes Dorm's skull.

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Attorney Jimmy Bell, who represents Dorm, says the video shows Taylor out-and-out "lied" when he wrote up a report supporting assault charges against his client.

Police also say that Taylor lied about the incident, according to NBC Washington. The alleged victim and his attorney have since filed a $10 million lawsuit against Taylor and his department.

Taylor is charged with misconduct, reckless endangerment and second-degree assault, the Associated Press reports. He is suspended from the department.

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Dad Allegedly Puts Lethal Drug Combo In Son's Baby Bottle

PHILADELPHIA -- Prosecutors believe a Philadelphia man put heroin and methadone in his infant son's bottle to quiet him but instead killed him, two days before his first birthday.

Orlando Rosado will face a third-degree murder trial after waiving his right to a preliminary hearing Tuesday.

Rosado, 45, told police he accidentally put drugs in the bottle during a 3 a.m. feeding in May. But Assistant District Attorney Lorraine Donnelly plans to argue the drug mixture – though not baby Christopher's death – was intentional.

"He admits putting it in the bottle. His version is, It must have been accidental because he was high," Donnelly said. "My theory is the baby was fussy, and he was trying to put him to sleep."

The baby's mother has described Christopher as fussy, and he was at the bottom of the standard weight range for his age, the prosecutor said.

Defense lawyer Bruce Wolf called the case an active investigation but declined to elaborate.

Rosado remained in prison after a judge Tuesday refused to lower his $1 million bail. He had served a year in prison in a 2006 drug case and has prior arrests for robbery and other crimes in New York, Donnelly said.

No trial date has been set in the infant's May 11 death. Rosado is also charged with involuntary manslaughter, drug delivery causing death, child endangerment and other charges.

Rosado told authorities both he and the baby fell asleep after the feeding. Christopher was found around 7 a.m., face-down in vomit in his crib, Donnelly said. Both Rosado and girlfriend Crystal Miller, the baby's mother, tried to resuscitate the boy, who was found cold and limp. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The couple also has a 5-year-old child who is now in protective custody, Donnelly said. Miller is not charged.

Rosado was in a methadone treatment program for addicts trying to kick heroin but duped the program into thinking he was clean, according to Donnelly. She said he was using an eye dropper containing someone else's urine for drug tests. Rosado has said he bought 60 milligrams of heroin and put half in Christopher's bottle, Donnelly said. Police found a significant amount of heroin in both the baby's blood and in the leftover contents of the bottle, she said.

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Girl Allegedly Murdered By Total Stranger Over Facebook Posts

ARNHEM, The Netherlands (Reuters) - A 15-year-old Dutch boy was sentenced to a year in juvenile detention on Monday for stabbing to death a girl whose Facebook posts reportedly led to a contract for her killing.

The case, known in the Netherlands as the "Facebook murder", caused widespread debate about the role of social media in violent crime.

The court said the boy did not know the victim and had murdered her "at the request or instructions of others".

Dutch media reported that the 15-year-old victim, named in court documents as Winsie, had argued for weeks with two friends on the social networking site before they allegedly asked the defendant, who was 14 at the time, to kill her.

He was offered a 1,000 euro payment, the media reported.

"I am not happy with one year for my daughter's life," her father said outside the courthouse. "But that's what the law book says. We were powerless and so were the authorities."

(Reporting by Svebor Kranjc in Arnhem and Anthony Deutsch in Amsterdam, editing by Diana Abdallah)

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