Thursday, March 28, 2024

Sandra Bland’s Cellphone Video Shows What Went Down During Texas Arrest [WATCH]

*The family of Sandra Bland have called on Texas officials to re-examine the case against the trooper who arrested Bland, after troubling new cellphone footage from her now infamous traffic stop shows what went down from her perspective.

Bland recorded the footage after being pulled over in July 2015, and it shows a white state trooper drawing his stun gun and pointing it at close range while ordering her out of the car, per wfaa.com.

“I will light you up!,” he says in the 39-second clip, which was revealed by the Investigative Network — a nonprofit news organization in Texas, who obtained the video once the criminal investigation closed, the report states.

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Bland, 28, was found hanging in her cell three days later at the Waller County jail near Houston. Her death was ruled a suicide.

The new video fuels the Bland family’s suspicions that officials withheld evidence in her controversial arrest and death.

The family never saw the video until now and believe it was intentionally withheld. They now want Texas officials to re-examine the case against the trooper who claimed he feared for his safety during the stop.

“Open up the case, period,” said Bland’s sister Shante Needham. “We also know they have an extremely, extremely good cover-up system.”

The Texas Department of Public Safety claim the video was never withheld.

“The premise that the video was not produced as a part of the discovery process is wrong,” DPS said in a statement. “A hard drive containing copies of 820 Gigabytes of data compiled by DPS from its investigation, including the dashcam videos, jail video footage and data from Sandra Bland’s cell phone, was part of discovery.”

Dashcam footage shows Bland holding her phone during the confrontation with the trooper, but officials never publicly released the footage.

Democratic state Rep. Garnet Coleman, who in 2017 carried the “Sandra Bland Act” that the family heavily criticized, said he would look into why Bland’s family never saw the footage.

“It is troubling that a crucial piece of evidence was withheld from Sandra Bland’s family and legal team in their pursuit of justice,” said Coleman in a statement.

 

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