‘Open up the case, period’: Sandra Bland’s family demands answers over new video of her arrest

The clip starts with the furious voice of a Texas state trooper. “Get out of the car! Ora!” he shouts. When the woman filming asks why he would “threaten to drag me out of my own car,” the trooper pulls out his Taser. “Get out of the car!” he screams, pointing it at her torso. “I will light you up!"

Tre giorni dopo, the woman wielding the cellphone — a 28-year-old recent transplant named Sandra Bland who had been pulled over for failing to signal a lane change — would die in jail, her death ruled a suicide. The trooper, Brian Encinia, would later be fired and charged with perjury, though the charge wouldn’t stick. And his dashboard-camera footage of her arrest would play for weeks on national news shows.

LEGGI TUTTO: Washington Post