Texas Officers Deny Withholding Sandra Bland Video

On Friday, Texas officers denied withholding a cellphone video of Sandra Bland’s confrontational visitors cease.

The denial got here after a Democratic legislator grilled authorities about why the 39-second video clip by no means publicly surfaced till just lately. The 28-year-old Chicago-area native had reportedly used her cellphone in 2015 to report a white state trooper as he drew his stun gun and yelled, “I’ll gentle you up!” whereas ordering her out of her automotive.

Three days later, Bland was discovered hanging in a jail cell. Her dying was dominated a suicide. “The Division of Public Security has not illegally withheld proof from Sandra Bland’s household or her authorized staff,” Phillip Adkins, normal counsel of the division, said.

The video’s existence was not identified by most of the people till it was aired this month by a Dallas tv station. Each Bland’s household and lawmakers claimed that they had by no means seen the clip and say it proves Trooper Brian Encinia had no motive to concern for his life.

Democratic State Consultant Garnet Coleman says he by no means acquired the cellphone video regardless of requesting all proof as chairman of the Home Committee on County Affairs. He claims he was given a jumbled “knowledge dump” with a dishonest account of Bland’s cellphone video within the state’s investigative report.

Encinia was fired after being indicted for perjury. He says he feared for his security after stopping Bland for failing to sign a lane change. The perjury cost would ultimately be dropped if Encinia agreed by no means to work in legislation enforcement once more.