So many questions on what happened to Sandra Bland

[Lee-Lee]

80. I don't know enough to say either way

The language he used during the stop, with "I'll light your ass up" deserves disciplinary action for sure. I was a taser instructor, and one aspect of training is to be very clear with the threat "If you don't follow instructions you will be tazed" because most people don't know what a taser looks like and they are similar in shape and size to a gun. His use of "I'll light your ass up" could have been taken by her to mean many things, so in addition to being needlessly provocative language it was an ineffective threat as part of the taser use procedures. Your goal in bring the taser out is to try and gain compliance without using it first by using the threat of it- his commands were not effective in that goal.

Does that merit firing? On its own, no. Now if he has a history of problems like that one on his record, then maybe so depending on what his record is like. Until I kno his past history it's hard to say.

It does merit looking deeper at his performance- a review of archived dash cam footage, a review of his past history of traffic stops, citations and warnings to see if there is any pattern of racial disparity, and similar checks. And if more problems surface, then he needs to be gone.

At a minimum some retraining, suspension, probation and a deep hard look at past actions. If he already has a troubled history then this added on should warrant firing, or if they discover problems when reviewing his history the same applies.