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The Texas Department of Public Safety had previously said that Trooper Encinia had acted improperly during the stop. Attorney Cannon Lambert, will represent the family in the upcoming lawsuit as her they push for a full investigation from the police department that apprehended...

Bland’s death has sparked a conversation among lawmakers in Texas and elsewhere about jail standards and how authorities deal with potentially mentally ill or suicidal inmates.

“People’s Sheriff” David Clarkewill walk through Sandra Bland’s traffic stop “through a cop’s eyes” in his Saturday podcast.

“How dare a woman not present as a damsel?” No charges were ever brought against the officers. On the morning that Ms. Bland died, he said, all three jailers on duty were black or Hispanic.

You may recall that’s the same Prairie View officer who told Bland she should have thought about her epilepsy before she resisted arrest.

“We absolutely reject everything that Waller County has done in terms of trying to disrespect, denigrate and completely dishonor her character and her personality”, she said.

Encinia asks Bland if she is irritated, and the a 28-year-old responds by saying she is upset for being pulled over for such a minor issue, Reuters reported. It shows a previous stop by the same officer at the beginning and then, around the 2:12 mark, the officer pulls over...

Cuts in the video and looping footage have raised questions about whether the dashcam recording of the arrest of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old woman who was found dead in her jail cell after being charged with assaulting a Texas state trooper, was edited.

But family and friends have disputed that finding.