The surprise discovery of Sandra Bland's cellphone video incites testy hearing with Texas lawmakers
belonging to Sandra Bland, the black woman involved in a 2015 traffic stop that preceded her death in a Texas jail, grew testy Friday as state lawmakers questioned top law enforcement officials about why it took more than two years before people knew of its existence.
Rep. Garnet Coleman, a Democrat who chairs the Legislature's County Affairs Committee and had sponsored a bill named after Bland meant to help jailed people with mental illnesses, grew frustrated as he described how the Texas Department of Public Safety previously"dumped" the related data to her case following requests for information, but failed to alert him to the cellphone video's existence.He implored the officials to be more forthcoming.
Officials responded that"you'll have everything," and said they support implementing a new policy that provides information with an index or table of contents.when a state trooper pulled her over in July 2015 on the outskirts of Houston for failing to use her turn signal, was made public earlier this month — part of a records request by the Investigative Network, a nonprofit news organization, and Dallas station WFAA. Before then, the video had never been seen publicly.
Instead, there was only dashcam footage showing Trooper Brian Encinia attempting to drag Bland, 28, out of her car and threatening to use a Taser to"light you up" — an encounter that became a flashpoint in the Black Lives Matter movement. Bland was arrested and found dead in her jail cell three days later in what was
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