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A NUMBER OF people have claimed the dashcam video of Sandra Bland’s arrest has been edited.
In it, officer Brian Encinia appears to threaten her with a Taser.
Journalist Ben Norton has written a blog detailing discrepancies in the video.
Bland (28) was arrested in Waller County in Texas on Friday, 10 July after being pulled over for improper signalling of a lane change. The following Monday morning, she was found dead in her jail cell.
The coroner said she hanged herself in her cell but her family has demanded an independent autopsy.
In the video, released by the Texas Department of Public Safety (TDPS), the officer orders Bland from her car as she complains about her treatment. He then draws what appears to be a Taser-style stun gun and says: “I will light you up.”
The officer leads her to the side of the road and handcuffs her. He later claims that she resisted arrest and kicked him, but the brief final altercation happens out of the shot.
Encinia, who has been put on administrative leave, said he was kicked. Bland was later charged with assaulting a police officer.
She is the latest in a number of African Americans to die in confrontations with law enforcement, stretching back to the August 2014 death of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
In the video she is heard protesting that she has epilepsy and the officer responds “good” while a female officer who arrives at the scene after the initial confrontation says: “You should have thought of that before resisting.”
Norton claims there are a number of discrepancies in the video:
In a statement, the TDPS extended its “sincere condolences” for Bland’s family’s “tragic loss”.
“This team of investigators is committed to conducting a thorough and impartial investigation. When the Texas Rangers and FBI investigation is complete, it will be turned over for review by the District Attorney, who has indicated it will also be brought before a grand jury.”
Through their lawyer, Bland’s family said her funeral will be held on Saturday in Illinois, west of Chicago.
A resident of Illinois, she had returned to Texas for a job interview at Prairie View A&M University, from which she had graduated in 2009.
With reporting from AFP
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This is great to see and I im glad they were rescued. Touch and go for a bit they could have been stranded in outer space
Amazing job Elon and President Trump heroes you are.
Well done to Elon Musk a true hero of our generation. Looney leftists out damaging cars in Belfast while Elon is saving lives. We will be on the right side of history. More and more people can see this every day. MAGA.
@Adam H2022: let’s hope President of Peace Trump really goes in hard on that mad dictator putin today. It’ll be so beautiful & joyous to consign that pointless proxy war to the history books & give those brave young Ukrainians the opportunity of reaching adulthood & old age
@Adam H2022: No doubt he was well paid for his rocket and it was not done for humanitarian reasons. In the meantime he is condoning the unnecessary bombings in Gaza. His attitude is probably what do a few lives matter for a cheap bit of real estate.
@Chutes Idiot: President of Peace sanctioned the killing of 330 Palestinians today.
@FoxyBoiiYT: Biden administration is responsible for all of the deaths. Trump has been landed with two wars and the left think it’s Trumps fault lol. Just when I think you lefties can’t get any more stup1d you come out with comments like that lol
@Adam H2022: So Biden is still in charge? You are so utterly braindead as to defy believe. Go simp for your billionaire masters elsewhere
@FoxyBoiiYT: Biden was never in charge as he was actually brain dead. You didn’t notice either as you clearly are as well lol. Shut your leftie hole thinking your tough name calling on an app.
@Adam H2022:
We need about 8 billion ape masks for the joke of the millennium
@Ian Graydon: Only need one.. and I’m sure the orange orangetan will be front and centre upon there return.
@Brian: Orangutan*
@Brian: it’s funny, but did you have this same energy when Biden refused to let Musk bring them back before the election?
@Brian: he & Elon Musk are the only reason they’re even coming home. The astronauts themselves even said as much. The previous administration didn’t want Musk getting credit as he declared his support for Trump instead of Harris so a game was being played with the health & welfare of these astronauts.
@James.s.: cool story bro, but it didn’t happen like that
@Brian: their
@Dermot Blaine: actually….
https://www.youtube.com/live/F86qrlBRVmM?si=z9NHknjzs8uF8580
@Matt D: The poor astronauts. Can you imagine being used as a political football as your life literally hangs in the balance. Democrats and the left are the low of the low. Watch them try to find something wrong with Musk having a massive win again – The left remind of the DUP everyone is just laughing at them at this stage.
@Karen Marten: that nonsense makes you the wnkr
@James.s.: rubbish
@Dermot Blaine: according to Musk and the astronauts it did. And seeing as he is the one responsible for bringing them back, I would believe him.
I’m sure they will be just happy to be home with their families and sleeping in their own beds for a few weeks sureit will be weird for them .
@Karen Marten:
Sure it.
62 and 59? Hmmm. They must be fit. I presume they will be in wheelchairs for weeks what with the muscle atrophy of a zero G environment and the freeze dried dinners and recycled urine….
@N.F. Court: But enough about the Oval Office.
@Sherry Adams – Norn Iron Drag Artiste: it’s ok Joe is gone, getting the care he needs
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