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In reply to the discussion: The Sandra Bland Dashcam Video Is Beyond Edited, It's Totally Bogus [View all]Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)27. What about this one, posted by zebonaut?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017280738
What are we dealing with here? And why should we trust any new vid posted by TX police state?
WHICH vid is the reliable one (if this is known)?
Apart from any potential criminal editing, the encounter I saw at zebonaut's OP is completely, totally inexcusable behavior by the cop--well before she's murdered in prison (more than likely). He escalates at every point. It is a type case of cop escalation! If she was active in Black Lives Matter--and I saw somewhere that she was--I'm beginning to think she was targeted, that this was no random traffic stop--the purpose being to get her in jail by whatever means, in order to murder her. That may be WHY he stops her on a pretext, then deliberately escalates to turn it into "resisting arrest." I know this kind of vicious traffic stop happens to blacks routinely, but are we witnessing something more here--something even worse?
I'm also wondering if the "ghost car" was a surveillance car--cops covertly following her, then alerting the arresting cop to pick her up on a pretext.
We need to find out more about Sandra Bland, to determine if they were targeting her, not just targeting her for being black, but also for being an activist. And, of course, was this a conspiracy--not just a bad cop escalating a traffic stop against a black driver, and not just another murder of a black prisoner, and not just a general cop conspiracy to target, abuse and murder blacks, but a specific conspiracy to kill THIS black woman.
That is what I am suspecting, if it's true that she was someone they knew as a BLM activist. This cop's behavior, in making this traffic stop at all, and everything that he then does, leads me to this suspicion.
By the way, do you hear him say, to someone off camera, "You need to leave!"? Ms. Bland and the cop are both off camera (another thing I wondered about--why he pushed her off camera), and I think it was just before the other cops arrived, or just as they were arriving. I thought I heard him say to someone, "You need to leave!" (as a threatening command). Could there have been a witness to his treatment of her off camera?
What are we dealing with here? And why should we trust any new vid posted by TX police state?
WHICH vid is the reliable one (if this is known)?
Apart from any potential criminal editing, the encounter I saw at zebonaut's OP is completely, totally inexcusable behavior by the cop--well before she's murdered in prison (more than likely). He escalates at every point. It is a type case of cop escalation! If she was active in Black Lives Matter--and I saw somewhere that she was--I'm beginning to think she was targeted, that this was no random traffic stop--the purpose being to get her in jail by whatever means, in order to murder her. That may be WHY he stops her on a pretext, then deliberately escalates to turn it into "resisting arrest." I know this kind of vicious traffic stop happens to blacks routinely, but are we witnessing something more here--something even worse?
I'm also wondering if the "ghost car" was a surveillance car--cops covertly following her, then alerting the arresting cop to pick her up on a pretext.
We need to find out more about Sandra Bland, to determine if they were targeting her, not just targeting her for being black, but also for being an activist. And, of course, was this a conspiracy--not just a bad cop escalating a traffic stop against a black driver, and not just another murder of a black prisoner, and not just a general cop conspiracy to target, abuse and murder blacks, but a specific conspiracy to kill THIS black woman.
That is what I am suspecting, if it's true that she was someone they knew as a BLM activist. This cop's behavior, in making this traffic stop at all, and everything that he then does, leads me to this suspicion.
By the way, do you hear him say, to someone off camera, "You need to leave!"? Ms. Bland and the cop are both off camera (another thing I wondered about--why he pushed her off camera), and I think it was just before the other cops arrived, or just as they were arriving. I thought I heard him say to someone, "You need to leave!" (as a threatening command). Could there have been a witness to his treatment of her off camera?
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The Sandra Bland Dashcam Video Is Beyond Edited, It's Totally Bogus [View all]
votesparks
Jul 2015
OP
I have only watched a good part of it once. You can't watch it. It doesn't fit together.
JDPriestly
Jul 2015
#10
She may have had a seizure, hence no noise from her. If she were comatose, wouldn't they
Stardust
Jul 2015
#13
Sounds like murder, tampering, obstructing, conspiracy, and accessory after the fact.
GoneFishin
Jul 2015
#19
The Texas Department of Public Safety posted the video and today stated they were going to remove
think
Jul 2015
#26
Zebonaut's video is a portion of the longer video that was posted by the TDPS here
think
Jul 2015
#28
In my post above (#25) the video is the exact long video that was posted by Votesparks
think
Jul 2015
#29
It's very weird, these cars blipping out of existence as the cop concocts his story...
Peace Patriot
Jul 2015
#31
At the beginning of the video he pulls over a red vehicle and informs the driver
Uncle Joe
Jul 2015
#32