{"id":10276,"date":"2015-07-22T17:21:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T17:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10276"},"modified":"2015-07-22T17:21:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T17:21:13","slug":"susan-blands-death-cries-out-for-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10276","title":{"rendered":"Susan Bland’s death cries out for explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The circumstances surrounding the arrest of a young woman by a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper have been fairly well established.<\/p>\n

Trooper Brian Enciana pulled Susan Bland over for failure to signal a turn in her motor vehicle. She mouthed off to him. He told her 15 times to get out of her car, after telling her to put out her cigarette — which she declined to do.<\/p>\n

He threatened to “light you up,” meaning, I guess, he would use his Taser on her. She got angrier.<\/p>\n

Then the two of them walked out of “dashcam” range, where she allegedly kicked and elbowed the trooper.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog<\/p>\n

Then she got\u00a0tossed into the Waller County jail.<\/p>\n

Three days later jailers found her hanging in her cell. Sandra Bland was dead.<\/p>\n

Can there be some explanation as to why this young woman was taken into custody in the first place — in an incident that started out as a traffic stop? And what in the world happened to her in that lockup?<\/p>\n

This young woman’s death while in police custody has created yet another national furor centering most notably on the race of the victim. As Erica Greider reports in Texas Monthly: “And so I agree with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick:\u00a0Bland\u2019s family and loved ones deserve answers; since it may take some time to provide them, the search should be handled as transparently as possible, wherever it may lead.”<\/p>\n\n

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The circumstances surrounding the arrest of a young woman by a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper have been fairly well established. Trooper Brian Enciana pulled Susan Bland over for failure to signal a turn in her motor vehicle. She mouthed off to him. He told her 15 times to get out of her car, … Continue reading Susan Bland’s death cries out for explanation<\/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":[743,4109,4608,4661,5160],"class_list":["post-10276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-brian-enciana","tag-sandra-bland","tag-texas-dps","tag-texas-monthly","tag-waller-county-jail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10276","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=10276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}