Trooper who arrested Sandra Bland was disciplined in 2014

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

We received the file around 5 p.m. from the Texas Department of Public Safety, under the Freedom of Information Act.

On July 31, ABC7 Chicago released the personnel record of Texas Highway Patrol Trooper Brian Encinia, who was the officer behind the traffic stop that led to Bland’s arrest and death.

The officer who arrested Sandra Bland acquired glowing evaluations throughout his coaching and has since acquired one quotation for “unprofessional conduct”, in response to paperwork obtained by, an ABC affiliate in Chicago. Authorities determined through an autopsy that Bland hanged herself with a plastic bag.

The file reveals that in an evaluation last fall, his supervisor wrote that Encinia was “given a written counseling for unprofessional conduct … for an incident occurring while at a school in Austin”. The 30-year old Trooper Encinia is now on administrative duty for violating department policy during this traffic stop. He was told to conduct himself at all times in “a matter that will reflect well upon himself, the department (DPS) and the state of Texas”.

In Ohio, 43-year-old Samuel DuBose was shot dead by a police officer after being stopped for not having a license plate on the front end of his vehicle. Under the heading “stress tolerance”, the report states that Encinia “performed effectively and rationally while involved in a pursuit resulting in a firearms discharge”.

His bosses also praised his “good problem solving skills and judgment”, “responsibility for any failures” and “courage” in the field. Waller County DA A display seize of latest video footage confirmed a Waller County jail guard standing in entrance of Sandra Bland’s holding cell earlier than she was taken for her mugshot photograph.