These families are all in it for the money. If they could, they’d thank Sandra for dying.
Why would they have stipulated a laundry list of precautions then?
Dashcam video shows the encounter Bland had with Texas State Trooper Brian Encinia started as a normal conversation but grew tense after Encinia asked her to put out her cigarette.
“I am in my car. Why do I have to put out my cigarette?” Bland said.
“You can step on out now,” Encinia replied.
Bland refused to get out of her car. The trooper opened her door and tried to pull her out of the vehicle.
In the video, Encinia told Bland she was under arrest. She repeatedly asked why. The trooper did not answer, other than to say, “I am giving you a lawful order.”
At one point, after Encinia aimed what appeared to be a Taser at Bland, she stepped out of her car. Later, she can be heard saying: “You’re a real man now. You just slammed me, knocked my head in the ground.”
In the arrest warrant, Encinia said Bland was out of control, calling her “combative and uncooperative.”
“Bland began swinging her elbows at me and then kicked my right leg in the shin,” Encinia said in the statement. “Force was used to subdue Bland to the ground, to which Bland continued to fight back.”
But Encina was later indicted on a perjury charged and fired.
On Thursday, the Texas Department of Public Safety, which employs state troopers, said the agency was not part of the wrongful death settlement.
Questions surrounding death
Three days after Bland was booked into jail, her body was found hanging in her cell.
“These families are all in it for the money. If they could, they’d thank Sandra for dying.”
Indeed. The same family that refused to post a $500 bail so she could get out of jail.