A new Sandra Bland recording is released, and 2020 Democratic candidates weigh in on police brutalit

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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.

In the video, officer Brian Encinia shouts: “Get out of the car! Now."

After Bland asks why Encinia would “threaten to drag me out of my own car,” he pulls out his Taser.

“Get out of the car!” he shouts while pointing it at her chest. “I will light you up!”

Three days later, Bland was found dead in jail, of an apparent suicide.

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Former congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-Tex.) tweeted:

“Immediately re-open the investigation into Sandra Bland’s arrest and death. There must be full accountability and justice.”

Former San Antonio mayor Julián Castro weighed in as well:

“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. This case should be reopened and justice should finally be served.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/analysis-a-new-sandra-bland-recording-is-released-and-2020-democratic-candidates-weigh-in-on-police-brutality/ar-AAB8e7s?li=BBnb7Kz

[playaseeker]

1. The problem with the Thin Blue Line

A small minority are criminal a$$holes, who are probably racist as well. The vast majority are public servants doing a hard job well. The problem?? The vast majority somehow feel compelled to cover up for the bad guys. There needs to be independent review boards for these incidents that get decisions on punishment out of the politics of the police. No entity can effectively judge itself.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. If the vast majority feel compelled to cover up for the bad guys, they are not public servants,

nor are they doing a hard job well, at all. They are also criminal assholes.

[JI7]

4. if they are covering up for the bad guys they aren't doing

a good job.

[loyalsister]

3. "The question is, how seriously can they deliver."

"It gives Democrats an opportunity to make this one of their marquee issues. Those who believe that addressing police violence should be part of the ongoing conversation about criminal justice reform will likely be looking to the individuals hoping to replace Trump to provide solutions to a problem that continues to plague communities nationwide.

This ongoing struggle must be a central part of the primary. Questions I hope to see answered are "where were the candidates before widespread police brutality was not yet being filmed?"
And I hope they will see the first they came for connection. There is all kind of outrage over Trump calling for action against journalists as if it is a brand new phenomenon. Even with the Civil Rights act and having elected a Black president, authority figures have never stopped killing Black civilians without being questioned or held accountable. It has been with us since before people of color were written into the constitution as less than human.