Sandra Bland's own video of 2015 Texas traffic stop surfaces

[Judi Lynn]

Source: MSN News


44 mins ago

AUSTIN, Texas — Cellphone video recorded by Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in a Texas jail in 2015 following a confrontational traffic stop, shows for the first time her perspective as a white state trooper draws his stun gun and points it at close range while ordering her out of the car.

The 39-second clip revealed by the Investigative Network, a nonprofit news organization in Texas, aired Monday night on Dallas television station WFAA.

Bland was found hanging in her jail cell outside Houston three days after her arrest. Her death and dashcam video showing Trooper Brian Encinia trying to pull the 28-year-old Chicago-area woman out of her vehicle became flashpoints in the debate over the treatment of black people by police.

The clip begins at the most dramatic moment of the July 2015 traffic stop near Prairie View A&M University: Encinia has opened Bland's car door and draws his stun gun as she tries to steady her phone's camera. The flashlights on the stun gun flick on and Encinia yells, "Get out of the car! I will light you up. Get out!"

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sandra-blands-own-video-of-2015-texas-traffic-stop-surfaces/ar-AAB0QKu?li=BBnb7Kz

[hlthe2b]

1. We'll never know what happened in that jail cell...

My suspicions will never leave me.

[lostnfound]

5. So many loving sisters, chances that she hung herself are zero. Lying cops.

Best case scenario, she died while in custody of natural causes, and they tried to cover it up by hanging her.


Her attorney’s initial reaction to seeing the tape didn’t actually seem natural to me either. Looked a little guilty, “where did you get this?”

[Delphinus]

12. Neither will mine.

[pdsimdars]

2. Neither the Dems or the GOP have put an end to this. When will that happen? Soon I think.

I think this next election is going to usher in some new, sweeping changes. I don't think they can let "business as usual" continue. People have had it.

[rusty quoin]

3. I'm reminded that she was 3 days in for a traffic violation.

[LogicFirst]

4. Why are these officers always so angry?

I believe that officers need anger management classes every year or so.

[hlthe2b]

6. Anger feeds their "power" trip

[2naSalit]

7. roidrage...nt

[Merlot]

9. Why are angry, steriod driven men hired by the police?

Might be a better question.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. Feature, not bug.

[dalton99a]

8. Kick

[Blue_Tires]

10. Why didn't this come up during the trial?

Meanwhile all the cop had to do was promise to never work as a cop again and at this moment he's walking the streets as a free man

https://www.wonkette.com/new-sandra-bland-video-shows-prosecutors-mightve-lied-about-not-being-able-to-convict-cop-for-lying


HEY -- All those folks yelling at me last week about the prosecutor in the Smollett case? I damn well fuckin' better see some outrage out of you on this story Y'all know who you are.