{"id":10269,"date":"2015-07-22T03:03:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T03:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10269"},"modified":"2015-07-22T03:03:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T03:03:07","slug":"texas-trooper-goes-under-the-glare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10269","title":{"rendered":"Texas trooper goes under the glare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Now this. What in the world … ?<\/p>\n

Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Brian Encinia pulled a young woman over for what some media actually reported was a “routine traffic stop.”<\/p>\n

He told the young woman, Sandra Bland, to douse a cigarette. She refused. The trooper then became agitated. So did Bland. They argued. He threatened her with his Taser. She got even angrier.<\/p>\n

The “routine stop”? Well, it became un-routine in less than two minutes.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/07\/21\/video-officer-became-enraged-bland-over-cigarette\/<\/p>\n

Bland was arrested …\u00a0forcibly. She was taken to the Waller County jail. Bland then died in her cell by hanging.<\/p>\n

And the stuff has hit the fan.<\/p>\n

This case is looking for all the world like some other police cases involving the arrest of African-American suspects. Eric Garner was choked to death by a New York City police officer, who sought to arrest him for selling cigarettes illegally. Walter Scott was shot to death by a Charleston, S.C., police officer as he was running away from the officer. Freddie Gray died in jail from a broken neck after he was arrested in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Now we have Sandra Bland arrested and rousted out of her car by a police officer. For what? Because she mouthed off?<\/p>\n

Sure, Bland shouldn’t have sassed the trooper. But aren’t police officers taught in the academy to look past rude behavior? Aren’t they schooled on how to respond with coolness and calm?<\/p>\n

Was the young woman drunk? No. Did she brandish a weapon? No. Was she using an illegal drug? No.<\/p>\n

And what in the world happened in that jail cell?<\/p>\n

Oh, my. This case is troubling in the extreme.<\/p>\n\n

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Now this. What in the world … ? Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Brian Encinia pulled a young woman over for what some media actually reported was a “routine traffic stop.” He told the young woman, Sandra Bland, to douse a cigarette. She refused. The trooper then became agitated. So did Bland. They argued. … Continue reading Texas trooper goes under the glare<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4109,4608,5160],"class_list":["post-10269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-sandra-bland","tag-texas-dps","tag-waller-county-jail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}