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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

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ORIGINAL: Oneechan

From what i've seen, the cop said some things which were very inappropriate. But all the actions he took were legal and within police regulations.
During a traffic stop an officer has the right to order you, and anyone else, out of the vehicle. As far as i'm aware no reason at all is required for this.

It's the duty of citizens to know the laws of the land, and comply with orders from an officer of the law.

Did his actions break any laws or regulations?

They did.

http://www.texasstandard.org/stories/10-things-about-the-sandra-bland-traffic-stop-every-texan-should-know/

Thank you for posting this, this pretty much sums up everything that was done wrong.
This is a MUST READ!

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Texas trooper Brian Encinia who arrested Sandra Bland had been warned over conduct.

(Reuters) - The Texas trooper who arrested a black woman later found hanged to death in jail was warned about his "unprofessional conduct" in 2014, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press.

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-trooper-arrested-sandra-bland-had-warned-over-170449913.html

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Council members are reviewing video of four arrests and detentions over the past month. The officers and police chief, who are the targets of the complaints, are white. Some residents are calling for a third of the city's 15 person police force to be suspended, disciplined, or fired.

Allegations of racism have led to the Hempstead police chief being suspended and ordered to take anger management classes.

The Hempstead city council has been reviewing the case since last week and finally came to a decision at around 2am Tuesday. A number of residents have come forward with claims of racism by at least four white police officers.

The council reviewed the complaints, along with videotapes before making their decision to punish Chief Glen Smith. Some say it wasn't enough. The chief says he respects the decision.

"My action during the arrest did not meet professionalism as it should with language and I'm not above policy and procedure, no more than any officer of this city," said Chief Smith.

It would seem that once a law enforcement officer—a chief of police no less—is suspended and then fired for racism and abuse, his ability to serve in law enforcement would cease.

That'd be too much like right, though.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/16/1402770/-Texas-Sheriff-involved-in-the-death-of-Sandra-Bland-fired-from-previous-post-for-racism

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The dashcam video also recorded a phone conversation Encinia had with a supervisor.

“I tried to de-escalate her, and it wasn’t working at all,” Encinia says. “I put the Taser away, I tried talking to her, trying to calm her down, and that was not working. … I’m trying to get her detained … just calm her down, saying’stop throwing your arms,’ what not. She never swung at me, (she was) just flailing, stomping around. And that’s enough, that’s when I detained her.”

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https://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/sandrablandmugshot2.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&strip=all


Bland’s mugshot from the side view. (Waller County Sheriff)

To help clear up the rumors about the mugshot, journalists have asked for the photo taken from the side to be released at a higher quality. The only publicly available image showing her from the side is blurry and dark, and was released as part of the booking documents from her jail intake forms.

The new clearer image has not yet been released.

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Here is my original post:

I used to prosecute traffic violations for the San Diego PD and the CA Highway Patrol. These were the drivers who chose to fight their tickets. To be absolutely honest, the majority of police officers who came into court struck me, the prosecutor, as arrogant and slightly above the law. And some were just Nazi thugs in patrol cars. I listened as a judge told one black woman, who was pulled over for a traffic stop and sequestered in the back of the patrol car--while her infant was left crying in the car seat in the closed driver's vehicle--"Ma'am, you need to bring this officer up on charges." The officer, a young white female, was foul mouthed and abusive, and refused to let this woman even check on the condition of her child. The violation? The black motorist had crossed a four-lane highway from a side street stop, and the officer, some 1500-2000 yards from the incident saw one of the other driver's brake lights come on. No skidding, no horn, no swerve, just brake lights on and then off, so the black driver MUST have failed to yield the right of way. Pull her over and get abusive, that's professional conduct.

The judge that told the motorist to bring the officer up on charges? I believe she was Jewish, in case anybody might wonder.

In another case, the drywaller union was out on strike. So the local PD officers were each assigned one of the striking workers to tag and follow around all day until they could catch them making a traffic mistake. One black motorist I was assigned to prosecute had been ticketed 8 time in the space of less than a month. The officer assigned to him... white. After the 8th ticket was summarily dismissed--the judge didn't even give me a chance to prosecute the ticket--the officer followed the man out of the court room and proceeded to do the same thing again. And why were the local police who called themselves the "Drywall Task Force" so willing to forego real traffic violators and gang up instead on the members of this particular workers' union? Because these upright public servants were in somebody's pocket at City Hall.

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I would like some critical feedback on this:

So based on my own observations and experience with police officers, here's my take on Sandra Bland (take it or leave it). She was an outspoken civil rights activist. She had recently moved to Houston from Chicago--a yankee nigger come to Texas to cause trouble. So they targeted her, tagged her car and followed her. Oh... lookee there, she didn't use her turn signal. Get her now, and if she gives us lip we'll use that as an excuse to drag her out of her car. Let's call it "getting aggressive."

When they realized that the incident was video-taped, in light of recent exposure of similar behavior against black motorists in other cities, they had to find a way to shut her up before the thing spiraled out of control. Either she was strangled or suffocated in prison, or she died of the untreated head injury caused her rough handling. They then decided to make it look like a suicide. Since there is no live-feed inside the actual cells, no one would ever know.

Do you think this kind of thing never happens, even in the South, especially Texas which has never had a problem with small town racism? Don't be naive.

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THIS is the way to go... besides the official results of the investigation this wrongful death suit may weigh the evidence and determine if negligence resulted in her death... Otherwise it gets rid of the murder accusations and goes to her rights and the incarceration facilities competence and accountability... As it should have from the beginning.

Butch

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absence of evidence is not absence of murder.

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absence of evidence is not absence of murder.

I would say until there is evidence you should not make accusations of murder... it makes you look prejudiced, irresponsible, and you lose all credibility.

Butch

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Texas officials say the searches are unconstitutional. So do attorneys for the shaken women, who have filed federal lawsuits.

But lawyers and civil rights advocates tell the Daily News these cavity searches are really standard policy among the Texas Department of Public Safety’s state troopers, despite their illegality — not to mention that they were conducted on the side of the road in full view of passing motorists.

“It’s ridiculous,” said Dallas attorney Peter Schulte, a former Texas cop and prosecutor. “We would never put our hands anywhere near someone’s private parts,” he said of his time as a police officer in the city of McKinney. “When I saw that video I was shocked. I was a law enforcement officer for 16 years and I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw, who oversees state troopers, denied an interview request from The News. In an earlier statements about the videotaped traffic stops, McCraw said his department “does not and will not tolerate any conduct that violates the U.S. and Texas constitutions, or DPS training or policy.”

So how did Texas troopers hundreds of miles apart get captured on dash cams conducting body cavity searches under nearly identical conditions?

“The fact that they both happened means there is some sort of (department) policy” advocating their use at traffic stops, Jim Harrington of the Texas Civil Rights Project told the Daily News. “It’s such a prohibited practice. I don’t know why they think they can do this. It’s mind-boggling.”

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Do you think ANY woman (or man) should be made to stand and be put thru this??