The confrontation between black motorist Sandra Bland and Texas State Trooper Brian Encinia continued to worsen.
Encinia: If you would’ve just listened.
Bland: I was trying to sign the fucking ticket — whatever.
Encinia: Stop moving!
Bland: Are you fucking serious?
Encinia: Stop moving!
Bland: Oh I can’t wait ’til we go to court. Ooh I can’t wait. I cannot wait ’til we go to court. I can’t wait. Oh I can’t wait! You want me to sit down now?
Encinia: No.
Bland: Or are you going to throw me to the floor? That would make you feel better about yourself?
[Bland continues to attack Encinia’s masculinity–almost as if she’s daring him to rough her up. If he wasn’t thinking of throwing her to the floor, she just gave him the idea.]
Sandra Bland voicemail from jail
Encinia: Knock it off!
Bland: Nah that would make you feel better about yourself. That would make you feel real good wouldn’t it? Pussy ass. Fucking pussy. For a failure to signal you’re doing all of this. In little ass Praire View, Texas. My God they must have …
[Niccolo Machiavelli, in his masterwork, The Discourses, offers this cautionary advice: “I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward any one, for neither the one or the other in any way diminishes the strength of the enemy.
[“(Contempt) make(s) him more cautious, and (insults) increase his hatred of you, and make him more persevering in his efforts to injure you.”
[That’s clearly what happened here.]
Encinia: You were getting a warning, until now you’re going to jail.
Bland: I’m getting a — for what? For what?
Encinia: You can come read.
Bland: I’m getting a warning for what? For what!?
Encinia: Stay right here.
Bland: Well you just pointed me over there! Get your mind right.
Encinia: I said stay over here. Stay over here.
Bland: Ooh I swear on my life, y’all are some pussies. A pussy-ass cop, for a fucking signal you’re gonna take me to jail.
[Again, Bland is essentially daring Encinia–who has total control of her–to physically abuse her. For her own sake, the smart thing to do would be to shut up.]
Encinia (to dispatch, or an officer arriving on scene): I got her in control she’s in some handcuffs.
Bland: For a fucking ticket. What a pussy. What a pussy. You’re about to break my fucking wrist!
Encinia: Stop moving.
Bland: I’m standing still! You keep moving me, goddammit.
Encinia: Stay right here. Stand right there.
Bland: Don’t touch me. Fucking pussy — for a traffic ticket (inaudible).
(door slams)
[Again: More profanity–and yet another challenge to Encinia’s masculinity.]
Sandra Bland was an activist in the Black Lives Matter movement
Encinia: Come read right over here. This right here says ‘a warning.’ You started creating the problems.
Bland: You asked me what was wrong!
Encinia: Do you have anything on your person that’s illegal?
Bland: Do I feel like I have anything on me? This a fucking maxi dress.
Encinia: I’m going to remove your glasses.
Bland: This a maxi dress. (Inaudible) Fucking assholes.
Encinia: Come over here.
Bland: You about to break my wrist. Can you stop? You’re about to fucking break my wrist! Stop!!!
Encinia: Stop now! Stop it! If you would stop resisting.
Female officer: Stop resisting ma’am.
[Even if Bland is not resisting, the testimony of a second officer who says she is could have been used against her in court.]
Bland: (cries) For a fucking traffic ticket, you are such a pussy. You are such a pussy.
[Is Bland referring to Encinia or the female officer? In either case, such language will do her no good–on the street or in court.]
Female officer: No, you are. You should not be fighting.
Encinia: Get on the ground!
Bland: For a traffic signal!
Encinia: You are yanking around, when you pull away from me, you’re resisting arrest.
Bland: Don’t it make you feel real good don’t it? A female for a traffic ticket. Don’t it make you feel good Officer Encinia? You’re a real man now. You just slammed me, knocked my head into the ground. I got epilepsy, you motherfucker.
[By stating she is epileptic, Bland has notified both officers that she could be in danger of a potentially lethal seizure at any moment. The smart move for the police would have been to rush her to a hospital for an emergency checkup. But they don’t even talk about doing this.]
Encinia: Good. Good.
Bland: Good? Good?
Female officer: You should have thought about it before you started resisting.
[The female officer has just confimed–perhaps unintentionally–that her partner slammed Bland’s head into the ground. She has also demonstrated her own indifference to Bland’s having received a potentially life-threatening injury.]
Bland: Make you feel real good for a female. Y’all strong, y’all real strong.
Encinia: I want you to wait right here.
Bland: I can’t go anywhere with your fucking knee in my back, duh!
Encinia: (to bystander): You need to leave! You need to leave!
[Although the bystander is not interfering in any way with the arrest, Encinia clearly does not want a non-cop witness to his treatment of Bland.]
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SUIICIDE BY COP: PART FOUR (END)
In Bureaucracy, History, Law Enforcement, Social commentary on July 31, 2015 at 12:10 amBy now, a second–and female–officer has arrived on the scene of the arrest of motorist Sandra Bland.
Bland: Make you feel real good for a female. Y’all strong, y’all real strong.
Encinia: I want you to wait right here.
Bland: I can’t go anywhere with your fucking knee in my back, duh!
Encinia: (to bystander): You need to leave! You need to leave!
(Bland continues screaming, but much of it is inaudible)
Encinia: For a warning you’re going to jail.
Bland: Whatever, whatever.
Encinia: You’re going to jail for resisting arrest. Stand up.
Bland: If I could, I can’t.
Encinia: OK, roll over.
Bland: I can’t even fucking feel my arms.
Encinia: Tuck your knee in, tuck your knee in.
Bland: (Crying): Goddamn. I can’t [muffled].
Encinia: Listen, listen. You’re going to sit up on your butt.
Bland: You just slammed my head into the ground and you do not even care …
[Bland has already told both officers that (1) she is an epileptic, and (2) Encinia slammed her head into the ground. Now she is again putting them on notice that she could have sustained a traumatic brain injury. But neither officer shows any concern.]
Sandra Bland’s jail booking photo
Encinia: Sit up on your butt.
Female officer: Listen to how he is telling you to get up.
Bland: I can’t even hear.
Female officer: Yes you can.
[After having her head slammed into the ground, Bland says she cannot hear. Both officers should consider that the injury to her head may be serious–and take her to an emergency room for evaluation.]
Encinia: Sit up on your butt.
Bland: He slammed my fucking head into the ground.
Encinia: Sit up on your butt.
Bland: What the hell.
Encinia: Now stand up.
Bland: All of this for a traffic signal. I swear to God. All of this for a traffic signal. (To bystander.) Thank you for recording! Thank you! For a traffic signal — slam me into the ground and everything! Everything! I hope y’all feel good.
Encinia: This officer saw everything.
Female officer: I saw everything.
[Since the female officer was not present when Encinia initially encountered Bland–as the video proves–she could not have “seen everything.” Her claiming to have done so could be seen as evidence that she intends to lie on Encinia’s behalf.]
Bland: And (mufled) no you didn’t. You didn’t see everything leading up to it.
Female Officer: I’m not talking to you.
Bland: You don’t have to.
[This is the last exchange between Bland and the officers as recorded on the dashcam video of Brian Encinia’s police cruiser.]
* * * * *
Born in 1987, Sandra Bland grew up in Illinois, and lived with her family in suburban Chicago.
She graduated Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Illinois, where she ran track and played volleyball. She was also a varsity cheerleader and part of the marching band.
She then attended Prairie View A&M University outside Hempstead, Waller County, Texas. She graduated in 2009 with a degree in agriculture.
Bland returned to Illinois in 2009.
In January 2015, she began posting videos on Facebook about police brutality against blacks.
In early July she traveled to Waller County, Texas, to begin a job at her alma mater, Prairie View A&M.
In one of her last conversations with her mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, Bland said:
“Momma, now I know what my purpose is. My purpose is to go back to Texas. My purpose is to stop all social injustice in the South.”
On July 13–three days after her arrest on July 10–Bland was found dead in her cell in Waller County Jail in Hempstead, Texas.
Sandra Bland memorial
Police claimed that she had hanged herself, citing a video she posted in Facebook in March, where Bland stated she was depressed.
Cannon Lambert, an attorney for the Bland family, said that at the time of Bland’s death, her relatives were raising money for Bland’s $5,000 bail. And Bland knew it.
“We don’t understand this,” said Lambert. “It doesn’t make sense.”
The Texas Rangers and the FBI are still investigating Bland’s death.
The Harris County medical examiner conducted an autopsy and ruled her death a suicide, claiming that it found no evidence of a violent struggle.
One possibility: Bland came to Texas to “stop all social injustice in the South.” She may have grown fatally depressed at her inability to “save herself” from jail over a simple traffic violation.
Another possibility: Texas authorities may have indulged in a long-cherished Texas tradition, best explained by a 19th-century Texas Ranger named Samuel Reid.
Reid served as a Ranger scout during the Mexican War (1846-1848). Recalling his experiences south of the border, he wrote:
“Our orders were most strict not to molest any unarmed Mexican.
“And if some of the most notorious of these villians were found shot, or hung up in the chaparral…the [United States] government was charitably bound to suppose that, during a fit of remorse and desperation, tortured by conscience for the many evil deeds they had committed, they had recklessly laid violent hands upon their own lives! Quien sabe?”
Meanwhile, Brian Encinia has been placed on administrative duties after the state Department of Public Safety found “violations of procedures regarding traffic stops and the department’s courtesy policy.”
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