Sandra Bland’s own video of 2015 Texas traffic stop surfaces
Bland, a black woman, was found hanging in her jail cell three days after her 2015 arrest for a minor traffic violation.
A demonstrator holds a Sandra Bland sign during a vigil on July 28, 2015 [File: Christian K Lee/AP Photo]
Mobile phone video recorded by Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in a Texas jail following a confrontational 2015 traffic stop, shows for the first time her perspective as a white state trooper draws his stun gun and points it at close range while ordering her out of her car.
The 39-second clip revealed by the Investigative Network, a nonprofit news organization in Texas, aired Monday night on Dallas television station WFAA.
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