The Texas Department of Safety made public the video taken by the police car of Brian Encinia, the officer who arrested Sandra Bland on July 10th 2015 in Prairie View, Texas. He stopped her for failure to signal a lane change. Three days later she was dead in jail.
The first video they put out seemed to have been edited, the second one still has no time code.
In the video, at the 9:17 mark, when Encinia is about to give Bland a traffic warning:
ENCINIA: You mind putting out your cigarette, please?
BLAND: I’m in my car. Why do I have to put out my cigarette?
ENCINIA: Well, you can step on out now.
BLAND: I don’t have to step out of my car.
ENCINIA: (opening the door) Step out of the car.
BLAND: No … you don’t have the right.
ENCINIA: Step out of the car … I do have the right. Now, step out or I will remove you.
BLAND: I refuse to talk to you other than to identify myself … I’m getting removed for a failure …
ENCINIA: Step out or I will remove you. I am giving you a lawful order. Get out of the car now.
BLAND: And I’m calling my lawyer.
ENCINIA: I’m going to yank you out.
He says she is under arrest. He pulls out his taser gun:
ENCINIA: (shouting) I will light you up!
Like she is some kind of dangerous criminal.
She comes out. The action quickly goes off screen. She keeps asking why she is under arrest. He keeps saying he gave a “lawful order”.
At 11:52, while he is apparently handcuffing her:
BLAND: Are you fucking serious? I can’t wait till we go to court, ooh, I can’t wait! … You want me to sit down now, or are you going to throw me to the floor? … That’ll make you make you feel real good, won’t it? Pussy ass. Fucking pussy. For failure to signal, you’re doing all of this?
He gets the paperwork for the traffic warning. She briefly comes back into view, handcuffed, but still standing.
At 13:00:
ENCINIA This right here says a warning. You started creating the problem.
Spoken like a true wife beater.
They go back off screen. It gets worse:
At 13:17:
BLAND: You are about to break my wrist, (shouting) can you stop!? (In pain:) You are about to break my fucking wrist, stoppp!!! (the sound of some kind of struggle.)
ENCINIA: (shouting) Stop! Now! Stop it!
At 13:49:
BLAND: I know you feel real good, you’re a real man now. You just slammed me, knocked my head on the ground. I got epilepsy, you motherfucker.
ENCINIA: Good! Good.
A citizen video starts here, at 13:50, showing her face down on the ground.
She says there is a knee in her back (14:11), that she cannot feel her arms (14:55) or hear (15:07).
He arrests her for kicking him (assault) – while trying to arrest her! There is no kicking on camera and no mention of it till 16:07, when she can no longer contradict him.
– Abagond, 2015.
Update (July 24th): Huffington Post put up a transcript of the video.
See also:
- video:
- YouTube: Sandra Bland traffic stop – the dashcam video (49 minutes). There is also a transcript.
- YouTube: the citizen video – corresponds to 13:50 to 15:28 on the dashcam video.
- Sandra Bland
- What to do if you are stopped by the police
- How to think like a wife beater
- the police
- Other arrests:
- Should George Zimmerman be arrested?
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I wonder if they plan on releasing the black female cops name.
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And I wish there was more investigation done in this case because it doesn’t sound right to me that a young woman would drive all the way to Texas only to be brutally beaten by the police, put in jail and then found dead in a jail cell three days later. I believe that there is more to this case than meets the eye.
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Sounds like she was putting on a show for the cameras. Who would talk to the police like that? Antagonistic from the start.
Cops aren’t toys.
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@ Sharina
The other cop was a Black woman?!! You sure cuz I heard it was a white woman?
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@A
She looked black to me in the video. I could be wrong though.
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Just another day in the life of an average pig.
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“I’m a light you up” WTF? what a pig. The poor woman says she has epilepsy and the bastard says “Good”. Karma is a sharp knife when it returns. Well this mofo needs to understand that because his karma is going to come for him. This is so disgusting. He really is a pig. So they are going to keep spinning this B.S. story about her committing suicide. So that’s their story and they are sticking to it. SMDH.
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Autopsy came out
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sandra-bland-autopsy-no-injuries-consistent-with-violent-homicide/ar-AAdmdrh?ocid=ansnewsap11
Just watched Chris Hayes segment about it which stated she had cut marks on her wrist that were scabbing making them at least appear to be 3 to 4 weeks old. This is the basis of the suicide allegation, that she had contemplated and possibly attempted to do so before. Even if true it still wouldn’t let the police off the hook seeing as they should have supervised her closely like you would/should anyone in lockup. But with pigs I always believe Black folks word over theirs, I don’t believe she took her own life.
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@ A
That is desperate spin – and AP, whose stories are carried by most US newspapers, is playing right into it, acting as a police mouthpiece. The county said that that autopsy was defective, that they want to do a second one – and yet are making select parts of it public. Why?
I will wait for the family’s autopsy before I will believe it is a suicide.
If it was a suicide, the police are certainly not acting like it. They are acting like they got some big secret to hide – presumably murder, not some tragic jailhouse suicide.
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If the police believed it was a suicide, they would not be pushing so hard on the suicide angle. They would be hiding and denying instead. Because if it was a suicide, then they would be in trouble for not looking after her properly. So whatever the truth is, it is worse than that scenario.
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The problem with most policemen is that they truly BELIEVE that they have a perfect right to “interpret” the laws in such a way that allows them to get revenge or to force deference from the average citizen. In other words, they use their power to misinterpret the law as a club to beat non-police into submission. Most policemen see nothing wrong with doing this.
1) If I want to pull someone over, I can do it. I don’t need a reason!!! I can just “find” something wrong with their car or with their driving. The infraction doesn’t have to be real, as a cop, I just should not need REASON to stop a person!
2) If I decide that someone needs to be taken down a peg with physical violence I can “find” that they are resisting arrest. Then I can beat them up to my heart’s content and then arrest them afterward.
3) If I want someone to spend days in jail, I can attack them, and if they so much as block my fists or push me away them I can “find” that they are “assaulting an officer.” Because touching an officer = Assault iff I want it to be.
Like I said, most cops think that bending the rules to force compliance or to punish the disrespectful is their right, and is no big deal.
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@A
Based on what this supposed Jailer put out her suicide attempt was through taking pills. They are being too messy for be to believe it was a suicide. One day they claim she said she tried to OD and another they claim she tried to cut her wrist.
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They are now taking words of an inmate or claims to have spoken with Sandra out of context. The inmate claims to have heard no struggle, but I have to ask if that inmate heard her choking or her limp body banging against a wall.
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That autopsy reportedly says Sandra Bland swallowed or smoked a large amount of marijuana WHILE IN JAIL.
If true, then either the medical examiner or the jailers (or maybe both) are ridiculously incompetent.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sandra-bland-swallowed-or-smoked-large-quantity-of-marijuana-in-jail-da_55b12ba9e4b08f57d5d3f041
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I’m just going to SMH and call it and night. This story is getting ridiculous by the hour.
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..Seriously? I too am not going to play into their lying azz hands about Sandra Bland’s death, as these potholed “theories” are starting to sound like some stupid middle school rumors-changing from krazy story to the next!
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This coverup business is just so evil. We can’t trust the system and yet they want us to just believe their evidence and judgement and not question them, just take what they say at face value. No of this makes any sense from the beginning to now with the information the media is reporting. It all so suspicious and the mugshot business that’s all over the internet looks like foul play. As i stated before this is just so evil from the evil Brian Encinia who was on some kind of power trip. I don’t trust their investigation of what happened to her in that jail cell. I don’t trust what the medical examiner in this investigation has to say either. We can’t trust the system. I will wait to see what the Bland family’s separate investigation will tell us. I don’t think the Hempstead police department and all of them involved expected to get a challenge. They just thought everyone was going to just except what they said and that would be that. I hope Sandra Bland’s family fight them until the end. I know it’s expensive to keep a lawyer and have to go through all this red tape. I pray for justice for Sandra Bland and her family.
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@Mary
I was not aware that they had questions about the mugshot. Some are saying she was dead on arrival. Didn’t she speak with her family though?
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@ Sharina
She spoke to her family on Saturday, but NOT on Sunday as expected.
Some suspect that in the mugshot she is either dead or lying on the floor.
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Yeah, people are saying the mugshot might have been taken after she was already killed. I remember when I saw it I thought it was really strange and didn’t look like any of her other pictures but mugshots seldom do. I’m not sure what to make of that but I wouldn’t put it past the cops.
The bottom line is that she was slammed into the ground arrested for no reason other than white male inadequacy and rage. If he did what he did with the dashcam on him, and the whole department right up to the presecutor is racist, they’ll do ANYTHING behind closed doors.
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I doubt she is dead or on the floor in the mugshot: she was still alive on Saturday and complained only of a broken arm, meaning she could still stand during intake. The rumours are driven by a profound (and well-deserved) mistrust of the police.
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oh of course they’d bring up marijuana. it seems any time a black person is killed they want to say oh they had weed in their system. When Trayvon was killed they brought that up as if weed pulled the trigger. Oh wait there’s more apparently when black folks use weed we get violent or suicidal, but it has the opposite affect on whites. We live in a society that will blame weed before it blames racism for the deaths of black people all while trying to legalize it.
media: black person killed, had marijuana in their system therefore they should not get justice
media: benefits of legalization
media: officer said he feared for his life as black person slipped cuffs backflipped off of car and attempted to grab gun and ran
media: witness who recorded vid contradicting police account has criminal past, only upstanding citizens should record
media : LONE white male shoots up public place had troubled past most likely mental illness and no friends, friends say he was a good guy and was shy they are shocked
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As many have shared, it’s incredibly suspect that the DA would only partially release autopsy results to suggest suicide while at the same time request Sandra’s body back to do a second autopsy.
Additionally, the suggestion that she swallowed or smoked weed while in her cell is mystifying to me… Don’t the police take ALL of your belongings before putting you in a cell? How backwards can you be? The PD is in such a rush to victim blame to buy enough time to get their lie together. They are not fooling anyone.
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An interesting exchange on CNN about this video between Marc Lamont Hill, the voice of reason, and Harry Houck, a retired NYPD officer.
Houck, who is White, said that Sandra Bland was being “very arrogant” and that, “There is no indication that this is racial at all, none whatsoever.” (A good example of how racism is invisible to racist people.)
Hill, who is Black, says that what Houck thinks is arrogance is “dignity”, that people should not have to kowtow to police just to remain alive. When asked if it was racial, he said, “Yes, and I think the sky is blue.”
More:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCYfQIgfCQw)
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Interesting commentary on Sandra Bland from the Young Turks show.
Food for thought as highlighted in the video: Dylann Roof kills 9 people and the police bought him a hamburger. Sandra Bland loses her life over a traffic ticket.
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@mstoogood
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media : LONE white male shoots up public place had troubled past most likely mental illness and no friends, friends say he was a good guy and was shy they are shocked
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And another one just shot up a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana. It’ll probably play out just the way you suggest and they’ll be blind to the pattern of behavior. I’m neither shocked nor grieved.
The victim-blaming of Sandra Bland (or Trayvon Martin or Tamir Rice or John Crawford) is such a contrast to the excusing or softening that occurs when whites commit crimes. It’s just another aspect of racism.
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@abagond
Isn’t it amazing how Houck just puts words in Sandra’s mouth, claiming she said, “I don’t have to show you my ID,” which was later proven to be incorrect. All to justify the officer’s illegal behavior.
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@Lord of Mirkwood
Figure it out yourself. I dgaf.
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mstoogood4yall
Lol.
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“The victim-blaming of Sandra Bland (or Trayvon Martin or Tamir Rice or John Crawford) is such a contrast to the excusing or softening that occurs when whites commit crimes. It’s just another aspect of racism.”
exactly. i’m sure they would’ve taken the theater shooter in alive too if he hadn’t killed himself. Black victims get no chance to surrender or even be a kid doing things kids do. Then people want to talk about how kids grow up so fast nowadays when they are the ones pushing them to do so and holding them to adult standards when they barely hit puberty.
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Love this tweet I saw today.
#Marijuana makes you:
Aggressive (Trayvon)
Impervious (Michael Brown)
Suicidal (#SandraBland)
Homicidal (Loughner)
Mellow (everyone else)
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From Alexandria Pyle, the prisoner across the corridor from Sandra Bland’s cell:
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@bygodsloveandgrace, So poignant..@Orgin Lmbo
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@Abagond
Your thoughts. Not sure if this is real though.
http://reportquickly.com/toxicology-report-concludes-sandra-bland-death-was-a-result-of-asphyxiation-caused-from-being-choked-out/
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@King
That is what kills me though. People are making the giant leap from sad to suicidal. Being sad is a common human emotion, but it does not mean you are going to commit suicide or even at risk of it because you are sad.
I go through days of depression and sadness and I typically prefer to be alone. I have yet to kill myself. I have never thought of killing myself. And if I ever turn up dead in a jail be very clear I was murdered.
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@MizNikita.. Agree! Let’s see if the bigots of the world let that tweet sink in…Tired of double standards.
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@ Sharina
If you scroll to the bottom it says it is written for entertainment purposes only.
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@ sharinalr
Yes, I agree. Being sad does not mean she was suicidal for sure.
BUT why was she treated different than all the other prisoners in the jail?
Why, of all the prisoners was she in a tank by herself?
The she ends up being the only one dead, with no witnesses?
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@abagond
Thanks.
@ King
I have no idea and that is part of what makes this so confusing. Whatever they did to her I feel it was done while she was handcuffed. What do you believe happened?
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Full autopsy report from Medical examiner.
Click to access BLAND_Autopsy_Report.pdf
Still missing is the estimated time of death. She was pronounced dead at 9:06 am, but I still wonder if she was dead before that. Also seems to be quite a bit of marks on the body. Many of which they can easily claim as consistent with her struggle with the cops. Much of what has been reported to the media seems to be an interpretation of what the marks mean and not what was stated. Hmmm…
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“Tired of double standards.”@bygodsloveandgrace, I understand how you feel, especially seeing how this issue is finally resorting to various states across the country legalizing MJ-it can be witnessed firsthand right here in the PNW.
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@Pumpkin, I hear yah (cyberhug) from me..
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“I am sick and tired of being sick and tired” Fannie Lou Hamer
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@ A: Comment deleted for use of moderated language.
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@ sharinalr
I am unsure of how events unfolded. I remain HIGHLY suspicious, but I can’t yet rule anything out. I don’t feel that she should have been arrested in the first place.
An observation of “Freedom of Speech”
It’s funny how when Hulk Hogan calls his daughter’s girlfriend the N-Word, there were plenty of White defenders who argue that he should not have been fired from the WWF because of “freedom of speech.” The same was true of Donald Sterling’s revelations. They argued the same thing about Paula Deen, and Dr. Laura. Yet NONE of those situations had anything to do with “freedom of speech,” as it is outlined in the First Amendment. The constitutional guarantee does not cover the firing employees because their speech may have an impact on the business they work for.
YET, when a Black woman is speaking freely to a policeman who is, by definition, an agent of government, these same people argue that she should have “watched her mouth” or “shut her trap” or “SHOWN SOME RESPECT!” Yet, when we were talking about White people’s disrespectful speech about Blacks, it was somehow thought to be sacred and protected speech!
Why is there a difference here?
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@King & Sharina: You know there are double standards in regards to black people.
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@King: Those were great examples
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@ King
Reminds me of what Justice Taney said in 1857 in the Dred Scott decision, that Blacks “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”
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^^^ Exactly. How can they not smell their own B.S???
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The same thing can be said for the teenagers at the pool party in McKinney, Texas. The whole pro-police argument was how the kids should have shut their mouths, stopped mouthing off, been more respectful. But what happened to their precious “freedom of speech?” Is it illegal to complain about what a policeman is doing to you? These things never come to blows, but the speech is enough when you’re Black.
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This evil system of structural racism affords white people an array of social, political and economic advantages simply because they are white.
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The double standards in regards to white people versus black people are sickening.
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I agree with you, Mary!
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Jesse Williams just gave me 24 more reasons to love him..
http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_grapevine/2015/07/_24_tweets_by_jesse_williams_on_race_and_police_explains_what_s_wrong_with.html
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bygodsloveandgrace: I saw those tweets too and he is very brave being so outspoken especially working in his industry when most black entertainers have to go the way of the coonish “new black” route. Because after all they have earn a paycheck and being too “pro black” could leave them in the unemployment line if they are too political. It’s a fine line to tow and many black entertainers can’t just say what they want to say. But i admire him for having courage to speak on matters that affect the black community.
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@Mary. That’s why I like him. He’s consistently never been afraid to speak up on racial injustice and it hasn’t stopped his Hollywood career. We should be at a point in Hollywood to pull our own resources to produce our own films without having to coon for $$..
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@King, Mary, and bygodsloveandgrace
Today I realized that even if it turns out she was murdered, who will they arrest?
It is like I said it over and over again that they had too much time to destroy evidence, but deep down I wanted so badly for them to be caught. This hit closer to home than all the others. Clear inconsistencies and still have people believe she committed suicide.
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@sharinalr
We may never get the truth. They have cover up down to a science.
Let’s look at the pattern:
1) Black victim is always to blame
2) When news first breaks, put out any negative incidents that occurred in the victim’s past
3) Then proceed to mention drugs were in the system (if possible)
4) Put out details very piecemeal to confuse
5) Buy time to get your lie together
6)Make sure the final story ends with the victim deserving their fate
We’ve seen it time and again. We’ve got to find new ways to break this cycle. I don’t have the answers but am incredibly disheartened and frustrated at the moment.
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You know, I’ve been thinking about a possible solution.
When I work within certain industries, we have to maintain a “continuous chain of custody” with certain products. That is to say that the authenticity of the item is ONLY as good as the records that proves it was never tampered with, always secured, and never unobserved. It’s a guarantee of purity and unalterability. You don’t have to prove that anyone did anything to the product, but just fact that the product was out of sight or in an unlocked space means that the product immediately loses it’s certification of authenticity.
I think prisoners should have a similar custody agreement. We live in a world where any civilian can monitor their own home for relatively cheap. Memory and digital storage is historically cheap today. Jails should be arranged so that nobody is EVER out of sight. The cell footage should be held by a non-police legal entity, and reviewed ONLY with a warrant. But if someone “commits suicide,” I was a VIDEO that shows EXACTLY what happened. No more guessing!
And another thing, Of course we need badge cams. But if there is a convenient gap in footage, or if a cop “forgot” to turn on his badge cam, then case dismissed! A lack of verifiable footage should result in a lack of a case. The policeman’s word alone should mean nothing at this point. Make them verify it with footage. We have the technology now.
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..Indeed, not only does this cycle need to be broken-but I’ve also been considering ways in which unlawful arrests can be (safely?) avoided so as not to be in a vulnerable state by entering the slaughter/jailhouse in the first place. This make take awhile of course..
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P.S. I can’t be the only one who noticed that the pointing douchenozzle in the lynching mob picture above looks a like ole’ Hitler, especially with that turd of a mustache in the middle of his lips right?
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I think that White people are often SHOCKED when they realize how “Resisting Arrest” really works. How it is almost always just a made up charge, placed upon people who are not resisting at all. They cannot believe it when it happens to them.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbQUltNOqo8)
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..I just Knew that was the Southwest when I saw that link you posted King with the reporter gettin’ a lil’ taste o’ “Black popo treatment”..I hated living in Arizona, b.k.a. “West Florida”! lbvs
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Don’t matter Nikita. The uniforms change, the B.S. stays the same. They do this EVERYWHERE.
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True!!
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So i am guessing in this current police culture they have traded their white sheets and pointy hoods for blue uniforms with badges.
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And another thing about finding solutions.
Being a cop should be a job you get ONE chance at.
If you are fired for:
Being blatantly prejudice
Being corrupt
Being caught in a lie
Stealing
Illegally assaulting a civilian
Using prostitutes
Using illegal drugs
Drinking on the job
etc. etc.
Then you should be put into a NATIONWIDE “Do Not Hire” list.
I’m tired of hearing about cops who have already been caught acting like criminals, turning up at some other police department and doing the same thing!
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Encinia took her off camera for a reason, that is plainly obvious. These white men out here, they are a bane!
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@King
Building on your ideas, some other things I’d like to see:
— Hold local politicians (mayors) accountable it they don’t address perpetual racial disparities in corrupt police practices. Vote them out if you don’t see considerable change during their term.
–Become more involved in politics at the local level
–Enact more strict background checks for police officers.. If your granddad, dad, uncle, mom, sister, family members have white supremacist ties, how can I expect you to protect and serve people of color?
–Require mental aptitude tests
–Police should be assigned to the communities they grew up in where they know the people and where they can build better trust..
–Hold the media accountable for their double standards in how they cover Black victims
–Encourage more “driving while black” applications on phones… Have you seen these? http://abc7news.com/traffic/lawyer-creates-driving-while-black-app/427947/
— Know your rights as a citizen
–Stop the school to prison industrial complex
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Darn…http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/07/native-american-found-in-jail-after-traffic-fine-arrest/
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Great ideas, bygodsloveandgrace.
I think you might want to amend the “Police should be assigned to the communities they grew up in,” to making that a “preference” whenever possible. Only because people seem to move a LOT these days and many people grew up in like 20 places! But finding people who actually live in the community long term seems like a good precaution whenever possible.
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When we start to talk about solutions there is a huge elephant in the room. I’ll give an analogy that may not be flattering but which I think reflects reality.
The body: global humanity
Cancer: Whites, as a group, and the racist systems they establish. They have metastasized from Europe and developed new growths on the lands of other people who they have destroyed or marginalized. The recent histories of North and South America, Africa, and Australia demonstrate the pathogenesis.
Immune System: Unity among the people who are the victims of white violence in order to resist the onslaught; creation of organizations to protect themselves and to accumulate resources. This occurred when racism was more blatant during the early stages of establishment of new cancerous tumors.
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS): Committment to the symbolism of ‘integration’, and ‘universalism’ causing us to behave AS IF the existing systems aren’t racist and were not created, with violence, to facilitate white expansion and control. As a result we embrace national and global institutions meant to oppress us and dismantle self-protective cultural institutions thereby leaving ourselves to the mercy of white supremacy racism. Organizations specific to us start being viewed as unecessary and “racist” while the white supremacist structures continue their destructive agenda. AIDS deals a deady blow as the cancer enters its chronic phase and the original organs are already severely compromised. At this point many of the new cells have always had cancerous growths in their midst. The immune system stops recognizing the cancer as a threat and allows it to grow unchecked.
Delirium: Mental confusion as a result of advanced disease. We become perplexed by our continued pain and hardship despite our loyal support of white power. However, this shouldn’t be a source of confusion because white power over any people has always meant death or deprivation for them. Yet, the ultimate cause of the experienced symptoms takes on a nebulous quality at this point.
Terminal phase: No will to live. The time when we were free of illness feels like a distant memory. We only want to die in relative comfort. Give us some palliative care. “Wear cameras so that people can see that we were killed in cold blood even though we’re still dead and you won’t face charges”.
As above below, as within, without. I think those sayings originate within ancient African spirituality. It’s from that perspective that I make the comparison.
I’ll leave the solution hanging.
Elephants are endangered.
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A tumor has cells.
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@ King lol.. fair point.
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@King @bygodsloveandgrace
Those are some good transitional demands BTW.
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We are living in some messed up times if we needs for driving while black. This reminds me of The Negro Motorist Green Book for black motorist while traveling. We are going backwards in this country.
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@Origin
Thank you!
I enjoyed your above analogy as well. Hopefully we can find real solutions.
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@bygodsloveandgrace: We are living in some messed up times if we need an app for driving while black. This reminds me of The Green Book for Negro Motorist from the civil rights era. We are going backwards in this country.
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@Origin: That analogy was heavy but it was very appropriate.
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@Abagond please delete my previous comment about The Negro Green Book it’s full of typos.
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@ Origin
Yeah, I feel you! But there is of course, a difference between curing cancer, and simply surviving it.
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@ Mary
Yes it’s a sad commentary. That app is essentially the modern day Green book. As far as we’ve progressed, the fundamental deep seeded racism in this country hasn’t changed.
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Why did the Texas Department of Safety show us trooper Brian Encinia’s first traffic stop? His first traffic stop was totally opposite of the second traffic stop. Was it for public deception? Personally, I feel they wanted to show the first traffic stop to have everyone think that Encinia is a professional trooper that does his job well. Encinia’s aggression and wrongful arrest of Sarah Bland clearly showed us that he’s far from being a professional trooper. Encinia’s wrongful arrest ignited Bland’s death. That’s my personal opinion. Rest in peace, Sarah Bland.
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@King
I agree. Police should be treated like federal bureaucrats who lose their “clearance” for performing illegal and unethical activities.
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@abagond
“Hill, who is Black, says that what Houck thinks is arrogance is “dignity”, that people should not have to kowtow to police just to remain alive. When asked if it was racial, he said, “ ‘Yes, and I think the sky is blue.’ ”
Arrogant? He might as well said uppity. Same thing. Negroes need to stay in their place. That’s what that whole exchange with Bland boils down to, doesn’t it? Jim Crow is gone by law but remains by custom. Like the olden days we need to have the proper tone and comportment when dealing with whites or they’re going to “light us up” for being uppity n*** during a traffic stop. You have to wonder how many such exchanges these white cops have had with fellow whites who knew their rights and refused to subject themselves to illegal searches and seizures. Does anyone have the numbers on that?
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Here is the full transcript between Sandra and Encinia.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sandra-bland-arrest-transcript_55b03a88e4b0a9b94853b1f1?cps=gravity_5059_-1231060269672711100
He is a LIAR. When you read his version of events it’s just sickening. It shows he heard what he wanted to hear instead of what Sandra said. He belongs in jail.
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I am confused on what he went meant here:: I wrapped it around her head and got her down.
What did he wrap around her head?
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@sharinalr.. It’s not quite clear to me either.. I think he was overly excited and jumbled thoughts together.
Also troubling was this part:
“I tried to de-escalate her. It wasn’t getting anywhere, at all. I mean I tried to put the Taser away. I tried talking to her and calming her down, and that was not working.”
Why did he have the Taser out AT ALL?
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I am still concerned about why he was upset at all. It was as if he was looking for things to turn into an argument. Was it quota time?
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@sharinalr….He had an ego/ a power trip and felt like being a bad ass. He was so polite to the previous driver but treated Sandra like crap from GO. I hope they look real close at the transcript and his lies and that he’s held accountable.. Sandra is dead.. He should have given her a ticket and been on his way.
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Just wanted to share.
1. Report estimates Sandra supposedly consumed Marijuana 5 hours prior to death.
2.The medical examiner is the wife of the previous DA.
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Additionally, the DA has now formed a separate panel of lawyers reviewing Sandra’s case. They will have access to all evidence and the right to subpoena people. Not comforting that one of the lawyers used to work for the DA. I don’t trust this process and I hope Sandra’s family gets more legal support to get to the truth.
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..Thank you for the updates, ladies!
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The absurdity continues….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sandra-bland-waller-county-racism_55b78e1de4b0074ba5a61b32?utm_hp_ref=black-voices&ir=Black%2BVoices§ion=black-voices&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000047
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“Consumed majiuana five hours before her death”
How is that possible if she had been in police custody since Friday? She would have been searched before she was put in jail fatigues.
Theirs a conspiracy afoot.
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