A TEXAS GRAND JURY DECIDED
NOT TO INDICT ANYONE FOLLOWING
THE DEAD OF SANDRA BLAND,
COMPLAINTS ABOUT EXCESSIVE FORCE
AND RACIAL BIAS BY ES PLEASE --
BY POLICE SHE WAS PULLED OVER
FOR NOT USING HER TURN SIGNAL.
OFFICER CLAIMS BLAND ATTACKED
HIM ALTHOUGH THAT IS NOT SHOWN
IF THE VIDEO, DAYS LATER SHE WAS
FOUND DEAD IN HER JAIL CELL AND
RULED A SUICIDE DELETE S SIDE.
SO LET'S GET SOME
PERSPECTIVE ON THIS, THE GRAND
JURY SET TO RECONVENE, DO YOU
THINK ANYBODY WILL BE INDICTED
IN THE FUTURE THIS.
I THINK POTENTIALLY IF
ANYONE WILL BE INDICT WILLED BE
THE STATE TROOP WHORE MADE THE
ARREST.
THIGH WERE JUST ABOUT THE DEATH
IN THE JAIL AND THEY DETERMINED
THERE HAND BAN CRIME COMMITTED.
WHY DO YOU THINK IT WAS
DETERMINED THERE WASN'T A CRIME.
IT REQUIRES PROOF THAT A
CRIME WAS COMMITTED AND A PERSON
COMMITTED THE CRIME.
THERE IS NO VIDEOED OR
TESTIMONIAL EVIDENCE THAT ANYONE
DID NILG PURPOSEFUL IN THE JAIL
TO MS. BLAND OR WHO IT WAS IF
ANYBODY DID.
WE MAY RECALL A LOT OF
PEOPLE BELIEVE SHE WAS
WRONGFULLY ARRESTED IN THE FIRST
PLACE.
GET OUT OF THE CAR,LY LIGHT
YOU UP.
WOW.
GET OUT OF THE CAR.
JUST FOR FAILURE TO SIGNAL.
YOU'RE DOING ALL OF THIS FOR A
FAILURE TO SIGNAL.
LET'S TAKE THIS TO COURT.
FOR FAILURE TO SIGNAL, FOR A
FAILURE TO SIGNAL.
GET OFF THE PHONE.
I'M NOT ON THE PHONE.
PUT YOUR PHONE DOWN.
A ARRESTED FOR NOT USING A
TURN SIGNAL, A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY
THAT SEEMS A LITTLE BIT EXTREME,
DO YOU BELIEVE THE STATE TROOPER
COULD BE INDICTED?
.
I THINK SKIT POTENTIAL HE
COULD BE INDICTED.
THAT CONVERSATION, THAT
INTERACTION WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT
WENT SOUTH WHEN HE ASKED HER
WHAT WAS WRONG AND SHE CANDID
LIDS TOLD HIM WHY SHE WAS ANGRY
AND WOULDN'T PUT OUT HER
CIGARETTE CAN THAT IS WHAT
CAUSED HIM TO DETAIN HER.
I THINK THAT WAS AN ABUSE OF
POWER.
IN SITUATIONS LIKE THIS, A
LOT OF PEOPLE MIGHT WORRY ABOUT
THEMSELVES GETTING PULLED OVER
ON THE ROADS AND WHAT THEY
SHOULD DO.
THE REALITY IS, RIGHTS ARE
DIFFERENT THAN REALITY, THE
REALITY IS YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO
WIND THOSE ARGUMENTS ROADSIDE ON
THE OFFICERS, IF YOU RUN INTO A
GENTLEMAN LIKE THIS WHO SCNT
HAVING HIS BEST DAY AS AN
OFFICER, SHE'S NOT GOING TO WIN
THAT.
AND SHE OOFN ARTICULATES THAT.
ROADSIDE YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
CONVINCE LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICERS TO TAKE THE THROUGH
GREATER EXTREME.
WHAT SHOULD PEOPLE DO IN A
SITUATION LIKE IN.
EWITH RECOMMEND TO BE
COMPLIANT AND RESPECTFUL, THE
CONVERSATION WENT RESPECTFUL ON
BOTH SIDES THAT IS NOT AGAINST
LAW BUT THE REALITY IS SHE
DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO BE PULLED
OUT OF THE CAR TO BE ARRESTED IN
AT LEAST IN MY VIEW AND
NONETHELESS BE COMPLYABOUT AND
STEP OUT OF THE CAR, SHE WAS
ARRESTED AT THE POINT SHE
WOULDN'T PUT OUT HER CIGARETTE.
WE CAN ARGUE THAT LATER IN FRONT
OF A NEUTRAL MAGISTRATE GO THE
DASH CAM VIDEO PLAYED A HUGE
FELLOW THIS.
WHAT KIND OF ROLE DO YOU THINK
THIS IS PLAYING IN COURT?
ULTIMATELY IN COURT YOU'LL
FIND A WRONGFUL DEATH CASE THAT
HAS SOME MERIT.
SHE IS 28-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WOULD
NOT BE DEAD IF THIS OFFICER HAD
ACTED A LITTLE BIT MORE IN
COMPORT.
I THINK ULTIMATELY WE'VE
ADVOCATED FOR A LONG TIME.
THIS VIDEO WILL BRING OUT WHAT
OCCURRED AT ROADSIDE WE HAVE
SAID WE WOULD LIKINGING TO THE SEE
MORE BODY CAM AND DASH CAM.
HOW LONG DO YOU THINK THIS
COULD PLAY OUT IN DISMOWRT.
IT IS SCHEDULED FOR 2017
CIVIL TRIAL, I THINK YOU MIGHT
SEE CRIMINAL ACTION A LITTLE BIT
FASTER WHEN THE GRAND JURY
RECONVENES BUT AS FAR AS JUSTICE
FOR THE FAMILY AND WRONGFUL
DEATH, I THINK YOU'RE TALKING
WELL BEYOND 2017, MAYBE LATE
2017 BEFORE THIS ALL RESOLVES.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
JOINING US, WE REALLY APPRECIATE
IT AND OF COURSE IF YOU'D LIKE
TO FOLLOW THE VERY LATEST ON
THIS CASE GO TO NEWS4JAX.COM,
THAT SPECIAL PROSECUTOR SAYS THE
GRAND JURY WILL RECONVENE IN
JANUARY TO CONSIDER WHETHER OR