>> New cell phone video has emerged featuring Sandra Bland's arrest in Texas from her perspective.
This is video that she shot from her own phone which hadn't been disclosed previously.
And it appears that this video does further debunk some of the accusations or claims made
by the officer who arrested her, that was actually Trooper Brian Encinia.
Now, this before seen cellphone video is difficult to watch, especially when you consider what
the outcome of that story was.
Sandra Bland was found hanged in her jail cell.
And the authorities initially treated this as a murder or a homicide, and then later
they determined that she had taken her own life.
Now with that said, I'm going to go ahead and toss the video.
If you have a difficult time watching this type of content, I just want to make sure
you're warned about it.
And let's take a look.
>> Get out of the car now.
>> Why am I being apprehended?
You trying to give me a ticket for failure.
>> I said get out of the car.
>> Why am I being apprehended?
>> You just opened my car door, you just opened my car door.
>> I'm gonna drag you out of here.
>> So you're threatening to drag me out of my own car.
>> Get out of the car.
And then you gonna stop me.
>> I will lock you up, get out.
>> Wow.
>> Now.
>> Wow, wow.
>> Get out of the car.
>> Really?
For a failure to signal you doing all of this for a failure to signal.
>> Get over there.
>> Right, yeah, yeah let's take this to court, let's do it.
>> Go ahead.
>> For a failure to signal, yep, for a failure to signal.
>> Get off the phone.
>> On my school.
>> Get off the phone.
>> I'm not on the phone, I have a right to record.
>> Put your phone down.
>> This is my property.
This is my property.
>> Put your phone down!
>> Sorry?
>> Put your phone down right now!
>> So he's obviously angry that she's filming.
And you are paid by taxpayers, so you are a public servant.
And they should be able to record you.
But that's beside the point.
He had alleged that he feared for his life.
Keep in mind that now that we see the video from her perspective, he's holding a taser
at her face, to her face.
And he's threatening to light her up.
This was his exact quote get out of the car.
I will light you up.
Get out now.
So, and why is this video now being released, right?
What, this video wasn't used in the case, the perjury case against the trooper and so
I don't know.
This story in addition to all the other stories that we've done on police brutality are so
unsettling and it enrages me.
So jump in, let me know what you guys think.
>> Yeah, it's kind of like similar to when a mother is mad at a kid, about to give him
a spanking, not an officer who has rules and protocol that they're supposed to follow.
And I was under the assumption that any sort of weapon is to stop violence, not just what
we've seen in a video.
We saw an officer pull out an actual gun because someone was running away from him.
That happened in North Charleston and we saw here an officer pull out a taser and point
it at someone because she wasn't following the rules, not because she was attacking him,
not because she was a danger to herself or others but because she wouldn't do what he
said to do.
And so he threatened to physically harm her, because she wasn't listening to him.
>> I will light you up.
>> Yeah.
>> And then later received support from his bureau.
So we see that- >> He said he feared for his life, which we
see in that video.
>> Is absurd, is absurd.
>> Yeah.
>> It is a great like, I mean, this video really needs, for people who don't understand
how white privilege works, this video would be a great starter course for them, right?
Because when you look at someone like Sandra Bland who's clearly distrustful of the police
in that video, there's obviously a good reason for it.
There's obviously a clear reason that she has to be distrustful of the police when they're
sticking a taser in her face.
And then, when after her death, they're supporting each other rather than trying to get the truth
out into the open.
I mean, that's clear also.
There's a bureau going on that is protecting her and insulating.
You are protecting each other rather.
>> Yes.
Yes.
>> And insulating themselves from telling the story and failing to protect her.
>> Yeah, that's part of the problem.
I do agree that there are good cops out there, but the issue is that they don't come out
and speak out against the problematic cops.
>> This is what puts their lives in danger.
>> Right.
>> This is what makes people not believe when a police officer says I feared for my life,
these videos like this, I'm sorry to interrupt you cuz you're right.
>> It's a good point.
>> The problem is that enough don't say, hey, this is a bad guy and I'm speaking out against
it.
>> Exactly.
Yeah.
And I want to just quickly do a refresher on the perjury charge against the trooper.
Now, the trooper was caught lying.
He lied about the details of what occurred that day and as a result he was facing purgery
charges.
But he actually took what appears to be some sort of plea deal and so he didn't have to
serve any type of jail time.
But he had to promise that he wouldn't or he had to give up his right to practice as
a trooper or cop in the state of Texas, though.
So if he moves out of state.
I mean that's a different jurisdiction and he could technically apply to be a cop.
And I mean is that really, if any average American is perjuring themselves is that kind
of treatment they get, right?
I mean, it's insane.
And also, how did this tape come about?
Well, investigators discovered video of Bland's 2015 traffic stop confrontation with this
state trooper on her cell phone two months after her death, but never informed the public
of its existence.
Why?
Why did they not inform the public of its existence?
And then finally, I wanna read a quote from the Bland family attorney.
His name is Cannon Lambert, and he says, so if the video showed that he had no basis of
being in fear of his safety, and he lied about that, then you would think that prosecutors
would be using that video.
Again, he lied again.
He lied about fearing for his life, and that's abundantly clear in the way that he's reacting
to her, the way that he's holding a weapon to her face, a taser.
>> What's so frustrating about this video not coming out is that prosecutors, the police
department, they are not defense attorneys.
Defense attorneys have a job and sometimes it's a nasty job, but it's what holds our
constitution together and keeps people accountable.
But defense attorneys have a job to do whatever it takes to protect their client.
Prosecutors, states attorneys offices, and police departments, the people that they're
supposed to protect are everyone.
>> Right.
>> And often times it becomes, they behave like defense attorneys and so they are the
prosecutors act as if their crime is a state.
So even though the right thing to do would be to release this video and to make things
fair because wrong is wrong even if it's on our side, it's like no, no, no, we gotta just
make sure that the state doesn't have to pay out anything here, which is not how things
are supposed to work.
>> It's not and it's because in many cases prosecutors have a friendly relationship with
the cops.
They're basically part of the same law enforcement family, and I think that that corrupts some
of the prosecutors, not with money but it corrupts their judgment because of those friendships
that they develop through their careers.
And there needs to be a way of doing things where they're independent and and not working
so closely with the cops that end up facing some of these charges.
>> But I think people who are you know, you mentioned that there are obviously good cops
and we all know that and that's true.
But I think people who are in the police force right now or moving in that direction need
to understand the distrust that the public at large, particularly people of color, have
for the police.
And understand that their responsibility now that part of the job is literally to undo
that.
That that is part of existing as a police officer in America now and that they're carrying
that burden.
And that they need to.
They need to help us get back to a place where there is trust in the police force.
Not that I don't think that we've ever been there, but we need to get towards that.