http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/22/1404640/-You-might-be-a-racist-if-you-say-the-officer-who-arrested-Sandra-Bland-did-nothing-wrong?detail=email
After the dashcam footage of the arrest of Sandra Bland was released Tuesday evening, social media was set ablaze by people who were either incensed at what they believed to be excessive force and an illegal arrest, or others who felt strongly that what Officer Brian Encinia did was perfectly fine and well within the law.
I know in America we like to see two sides of every situation, but sometimes, in the world of right and wrong, ethical and corrupt, everybody can't be right. This is one of those situations.
Before one single member of the general public viewed the dashcam footage of Bland's arrest, the Texas Department of Public Safety viewed it and issued the following statement:
"[The department] identified violations of the department's procedures regarding traffic stops and the department's courtesy policy."
Because of this determination, Officer Encinia removed from active duty policing and was placed on desk duty. Again, mind you, his supervisors made this determination, but refused to state which specific actions the officer made that violated statewide policies.
Could it have been the 14 times he refused to tell Sandra Bland why she was being arrested?
Could it have been when he pointed a Taser at her and told her "I'll light you up" when she was afraid to get out of the car?
Could it have been when she told him she had epilepsy and he said "good" back to her as she explained how her head hurt from being slammed to the ground?
For anyone of good conscience to see the arrest video of Sandra Bland, who was only confronted in the first place when she failed to use her turn signal to get out of the officer's way, and determine that everything was fine, appropriate, and well within policy completely defies ethical reasoning.
Only racism, or perhaps the worship of police, could make sense of such a determination.
this is interesting i think i'm noticing something that other cases were devoid of and that is the last few days we have been seeing as much if not more coverage of what the officer may have done wrong there was the mud sling when they said the allegedly found marijuana in her system and needed to do another autopsy to figure out how long it had been there.
that implies incompetence and incomplete autopsy report it seems to me that if your looking to put a drug attachment on a victim you cross all the t's and dot all the eye's unless you think you have a slam dunk in the sense of no contest by the judicial branch or police who would than use it to smear and in their minds create a reason but a reason for what standing up for her rights not being railroaded???
i think America seeing both sides is a rarity this judicial system is built on the adversarial philosophy. we have seen movies where DA's go after a defendant with the ferociousness of a lion on a pork chop. convinced they got the guy no respect to innocent till proven guilty just "attack the SOB till they admit i'm right they did it" you know the Darrell Issa manic approach.
we choose sides we don't want both sides we want our opinion to be the the one we convict because of the power surge all the baggage from life gives us the opportunity to strike back and it usually is against some unlucky citizen that happens to be served up that day. far from the best country even farther from exceptional we are human beings some humane some not but we are all subject to what our subconscious and conscious mind dictates even when we are unaware.
