Analysis: A new Sandra Bland recording is released, and 2020 Democratic candidates weigh in on police brutality
By Eugene Scott Eugene Scott Reporter covering identity politics for The Fix Email Bio Follow May 9 at 6:11 AM This week, a Dallas news station obtained a cellphone clip recorded by Sandra Bland. The 28-year-old black woman was pulled over by a Texas state trooper in July 2015 after failing to signal a lane change. The video calls into question the officer’s account of the event.After Bland asks why Encinia would “threaten to drag me out of my own car,” he pulls out his Taser.
Sandra Bland should still be alive. We desperately need more critical thinking about the role of police and the narratives they feed us. If her video helps someone get there, all the better. I’m too furious to add anything else constructive at the moment. https://t.co/YjgKMNDGKV “Immediately re-open the investigation into Sandra Bland’s arrest and death. There must be full accountability and justice.”“The recently released video Sandra Bland took of her own arrest provides the latest example of a police justification for the death of an unarmed black person being revealed as a flat out lie,” he wrote. “This video is compelling proof that Trooper Encinia lied, that Sandra Bland posed no threat, and that there was no basis for her arrest.
"While the number of black males — armed and unarmed — who have been killed has fallen, black males continue to be shot at disproportionately high rates, the data shows. “I’d like to see candidates continue to take the right stances, even if they are difficult,” she said. “I’m sure many people would rather not bring Sandra Bland back up again. But for black women like me, her presence is everywhere. Candidates who take her death seriously show me they take me seriously.”
And I previously wrote how South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s past use of the phrase “All Lives Matter” — viewed by many as a rejection of the Black Lives Matter movement — prompted suspicion about his views on policing.
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