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Sandra Bland was arrested after officer became annoyed that she was smoking | US news | The Guardian

African American woman, 28, died in custody after Texas traffic stop escalated, with supporters saying dashcam images show trooper becoming agitated

Sandra Bland was ordered out of her car after a police officer became annoyed that she was smoking, according to a spokesman for her family.

The 28-year-old’s death in a Texas county jail has sparked national outrage and protests after her family questioned the official account that she hanged herself with a trash bag in her cell. She was found dead three days after her arrest for allegedly assaulting a public servant after a routine traffic stop escalated into a physical encounter.

Bland was stopped, supposedly for a minor traffic violation, on 10 July in Waller County, a rural area near Houston. Footage filmed by a bystander shows her being pinned to the ground by officers. She was found dead on the morning of 13 July.

At a news conference outside the county jail on Monday, Jamal Bryant, a pastor from Baltimore who was flanked by other activists and protesters, said that dashcam images from a state trooper’s car show the officer becoming agitated as Bland smokes in her car and starts to film the encounter.

“He became outraged and unnerved because he’s handling a black woman who is not ignorant, who knows her rights,” he said. Bryant claimed that her death was not suicide but “murder, a homicide”. He linked her death with other fatal encounters between African Americans and police across the country, which have prompted widespread demonstrations and energized the Black Lives Matter movement.

Waller County has a history of racism, while the sheriff, Glenn Smith, was fired from his previous job after allegations of racist behaviour, which he has denied.

The Texas department of public safety, which is leading the investigation, said in a statement on Friday that the officer who stopped Bland, identified as Brian Encinia, has been assigned to desk duties for “violations of the department’s procedures regarding traffic stops and the department’s courtesy policy”.

The agency had previously said that Bland “became argumentative and uncooperative” after being stopped for failing to signal a lane change. It has asked the FBI to analyse videos related to the incident and has pledged to release footage to the public.

The Bland family’s Chicago-based lawyer, Cannon Lambert, told NBC News that she asked the officer, “Why do I have to put out a cigarette when I’m in my own car? And that seemed to irritate him to the point where he said, ‘get out of the car’.” Lambert said that the trooper “looked to force her to get out of the car by way of opening the door and started demanding that she do”.

Waller County’s district attorney, Elton Mathis, told reporters last week that the investigation would be thorough and transparent and findings of potential wrongdoing would be presented to a grand jury.

After Bland’s death the Texas Commission on Jail Standards said that it had found the Waller County jail to be in non-compliance with minimum standards for failing to check on inmates in person at least once an hour and for inadequate staff training on how to handle potentially suicidal inmates. The sheriff’s office said in a statement that it would be “working on improvements”.

Family members have travelled to Texas and are awaiting the results of an independent autopsy performed at their request, which should be released within the next two days. Activists on Monday called for an investigation by the US Department of Justice.

An FBI spokeswoman, Shauna Dunlap, said: “We are monitoring the ongoing local investigation. Once the local process takes its course, the FBI will review all of the evidence to determine if any federal criminal laws may have been violated.”

Bland, a racial justice activist, had newly arrived in Texas from Chicago for a job interview at Prairie View A&M University, her alma mater, where a vigil was held in her memory on Sunday.

She got the job. Family and friends have said she had no reason to end her life, though she talked about feeling depressed in a Facebook post several months earlier. Bryant said she “turned the corner … just got a job opportunity and was excited about life”.
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Op maandag 20 juli 2015 22:29 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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The Department of Homeland Security has been monitoring the Black Lives Matter movement since anti-police protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri last summer, according to hundreds of documents obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request.

The documents, released by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Operations Coordination, indicate that the department frequently collects information, including location data, on Black Lives Matter activities from public social media accounts, including on Facebook, Twitter, and Vine, even for events expected to be peaceful. The reports confirm social media surveillance of the protest movement and ostensibly related events in the cities of Ferguson, Baltimore, Washington, DC, and New York.

They also show the department watching over gatherings that seem benign and even mundane. For example, DHS circulated information on a nationwide series of silent vigils and a DHS-funded agency planned to monitor a funk music parade and a walk to end breast cancer in the nation’s capital.

The tracking of domestic protest groups and peaceful gatherings raises questions over whether DHS is chilling the exercise of First Amendment rights, and over whether the department, created in large part to combat terrorism, has allowed its mission to creep beyond the bounds of useful security activities as its annual budget has grown beyond $60 billion.

The surveillance cataloged in the DHS documents goes back to August of last year, when protests and riots broke out in Ferguson the day after the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. According to two August 11th, 2014 reports, a DHS FEMA “WatchOps officer” used information from Twitter and Vine to monitor the riots and reproduced a map, originally created by a Reddit user, of conflict zones.

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Mitchell, the Blackbird activist, says that this continuing surveillance serves not only to keep tabs on black activists, but also to deter them from pushing forward. "Surveillance is a tool of fear. When the police are videotaping you at a protest or pulling you over because you're a well known activist -- all of these techniques are designed to create a chilling effect on people's organizing. This is no different. The level of surveillance, however, isn't going to stop us. After all, we organize because our lives depend on it."

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WATCH: Police Officer Ray Tensing body cam, Samuel DuBose shooting

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The Samuel DuBose shooting video proved the police incident report was totally bogus

The body camera footage of the police shooting of Samuel DuBose shows not just how far video can go in getting an indictment and criminal charges against cops, but how it can dispel misleading claims from officers in the aftermath of a shooting.

The incident report filed by University of Cincinnati police, for instance, made two false claims about the traffic stop and fatal shooting of DuBose: that UC police officer Ray Tensing was dragged by the car, and that he was almost run over by the vehicle.

"Officer Tensing stated that he was attempting a traffic stop (No front license plate) when, at some point, he began to be dragged by a male black driver who was operating a 1998 Green Honda Accord (OH.GLN6917)," the report stated. "Officer Tensing stated that he almost was run over by the driver of the Honda Accord and was forced to shoot the driver with his duty weapon."

But based on the video, these claims seem to get the timeline of events wrong. The car started moving very slowly — to the point that it's hard to make out whether it was moving at all. Within seconds, Tensing reached into the vehicle and shot DuBose in the head. He then fell over, stumbling a good distance away from the car.

Tensing never appears to be dragged by or attached to the vehicle, and he's never close to being run over. When he falls over after firing the shot, he's so far away from the car that he has to run after it as it accelerates. (DuBose's body appears to have fallen against the pedal after he was shot dead, causing the vehicle to accelerate, according to Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters.)

Without the video, it's much less likely a grand jury would have agreed to an indictment for murder and voluntary manslaughter, and the Republican prosecutor on the case— who called the killing "asinine," "senseless," and "unwarranted" at a press conference — may not have been so confident that a murder charge was called for. If there's no camera footage, these cases tend to turn into he-says-she-says situations between civilians and police officers, and grand juries and prosecutors tend to see the police as more credible.

"There is a tendency to believe an officer over a civilian, in terms of credibility," David Rudovsky, a civil rights lawyer who co-wrote Prosecuting Misconduct: Law and Litigation, told Vox's Amanda Taub in November. "And when an officer is on trial, reasonable doubt has a lot of bite. A prosecutor needs a very strong case before a jury will say that somebody who we generally trust to protect us has so seriously crossed the line as to be subject to a conviction."

So, without the video, the scenario Rudovsky described would have likely played out. Multiple police officers would have pointed to the incident report, saying Tensing was dragged by the car and nearly run over. Grand juries and prosecutors, having either no other evidence or only the word of civilian witnesses to go on, would have likely sided with the police. And they would have been wrong.

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Op donderdag 30 juli 2015 07:38 schreef SuperHarregarre het volgende:
en zelfs proberen weg te rijden.

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Op donderdag 30 juli 2015 07:39 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Je moet het artikel nog eens lezen.

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Op donderdag 30 juli 2015 02:17 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

WATCH: Police Officer Ray Tensing body cam, Samuel DuBose shooting

WCPO edited this video to blur the moment Sam DuBose is shot in the head.

UC police officer Ray Tensing's body camera video clearly shows that he committed "murder" when he shot and killed an unarmed black motorist at a traffic stop, prosecutor Joe Deters said Wednesday.

The shocking video shows Tensing grab the outside door latch on 43-year-old Sam DuBose's car after DuBose couldn't produce a driver's license.

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http://www.vox.com/2015/7(...)e-video-body-cameras

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Op donderdag 30 juli 2015 07:38 schreef SuperHarregarre het volgende:
Je rijdt dus zonder kentekenplaat, zodat je sowieso zal worden aangehouden. Je hebt dan ook nog eens niet je rijbewijs bij je. En dan ga je bij het staande gehouden worden moeilijk doen en zelfs proberen weg te rijden. Wat was zijn verwachting precies? Dat de politie zou zeggen: nja, laat maar zitten dan, doei. En je woont in een land waar dienders snel een wapen trekken. Dat neem je niet mee in je overweging om capriolen uit te halen? Het is een beetje als iemand die in China op het Tiananmen Plein een Tibetaanse vlag ontvouwt en dan verbouwereerd is als 'ie de gevangenis invliegt. Ja, een vlag is geen moordwapen maar je weet waar je bent en wat voor risico's je neemt.

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Op donderdag 30 juli 2015 07:38 schreef SuperHarregarre het volgende:
Je rijdt dus zonder kentekenplaat, zodat je sowieso zal worden aangehouden.

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Depends on where you live. In areas with lots of (street) parking enforcement especially San Francisco, parking officers will often give no front plate / fix it tickets because it's easy. Otherwise you can go 3-4+ years at a time without trouble - from people in SoCal with no front plate or Euro-style plates, parked off the street.

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I lost mine in a minor fender-bender and put off getting it replaced for six years (2004-2010). During that time driving around the San Francisco peninsula, I never got a ticket. I had a friend who got one, but I think my experience speaks to the general laxness around front license plates.

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Op donderdag 30 juli 2015 14:10 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Een kenteken vooraan is niet in alle staten verplicht, en het wordt zelden beboet.

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Backlash Against Police Use of Force Is Making Its Way into US Courtrooms

Increased scrutiny over police use of force stemming from the past year's high profile police-involved shootings has led to a shift in the way wrongful death lawsuits are being handled, according to attorneys and outside observers.

Though still rare, wrongful death suits are now more likely to be weighed by juries on evidence, particularly video evidence, of police wrongdoing, whereas in the past they relied heavily on the credibility of law enforcement and the narrative officers presented during a trial, experts told VICE News.

Don Hummer, a criminal justice expert at Penn State University, has studied wrongful death suits against police in the US in the past and said there has been a marked change in the way the lawsuits are now seen in courts and by the public. One major reason for the change is the prevalence of video, taken on cell phones and dash cams and body cameras, that shows a full range of events.

"The ones you're seeing now that get a lot of media attention I think represent a shift in cultural perceptions of whether or not police misuse force," Hummer told VICE News. "With the video evidence now it's not one person's word against another, where police have the upper hand and control the perception — it's more of a level playing field, and I think that's going to change the outcomes."

Related: Activists Demand DoJ Investigation into Sandra Bland's Death

William T. Gaut, a retired police detective who now works as a criminal justice consultant on wrongful death lawsuits, said that the historical trend of the high credibility automatically afforded to police officers with juries may be beginning to erode.

"You've always got jury nullification in favor of police officers. Everybody wants to find for law enforcement. But now there's a lot of media attention to wrongdoing by police officers, especially with video and cell phones, dash cams, body cams, so now, I don't know if they've got quite the jury nullification that they had years ago. Citizen juries now are beginning to get a firsthand look at things. So it's now becoming more evidentiary-based than witness-based," Gaut said.

Last week, attorney Keith Greer filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the FBI for the wrongful death of James DiMaggio, an alleged kidnapper and murderer who was shot and killed by and FBI hostage rescue team in the summer of 2013. DiMaggio's sister Lora DiMaggio Robinson, represented by Greer, is claiming $20 million from the the bureau, claiming that agents were too quick to shoot and kill her brother.

The case is an unusual addition to the string of high-profile wrongful death lawsuits brought against law enforcement over the past year, including those brought against police in Ferguson, Missouri, after the death of Michael Brown, in Staten Island, New York, after the death of Eric Garner, and in Cleveland, Ohio, after the death of Tamir Rice.

The DiMaggio case acknowledges that the deceased was accused of serious crimes, but argues that law enforcement still should not have shot and killed him.

An inquiry by the US attorney into the case in 2014 found the shooting was justified. But Greer said there were still valid questions about whether FBI agents acted as "judge, jury, and executioner" when deciding to shoot and kill DiMaggio, questions that he said resonated with a public that has grown wary over police force.

"The conversation around the country in the week since [the news of the lawsuit] has been out there seems to reflect that people are not focusing on the acts he allegedly did but the process and the system, that perhaps police went beyond their boundaries," he told VICE News.

Greer said that despite a potential backlash for claiming the unlawful death of a man accused of such violent crime, he and Robinson felt that it was important, amid a growing concern about police use of force in the country.

"I have a lot of respect for these guys [the hostage rescue team], and I was hesitant to bring the case. They put themselves in harm's way all the time. But with that great responsibility they have, they can't let passion take over," Greer said. "By usurping the system and taking justice into their own hands they've taken the life of somebody who didn't have to have life taken."

Related: New Video Gives Fresh Insight Into What Happened During Freddie Gray's Arrest

Authorities said that DiMaggio kidnapped 16-year-old Hannah Anderson after murdering her mother and brother, then took her to a campsite in the woods in Idaho.

According to the claim, US Marshals spotted the campsite in their search for Anderson and sent an FBI Hostage Rescue Team in to rescue her. Anderson said after the ordeal that DiMaggio had been building a fire to send a signal for help when she suggested he fire his gun into the air three times to call for help instead. Upon his first shot, agents poised nearby opened fire at him, shooting him six times, according to the claim.

Greer said in the claim that given DiMaggio's history of having a familiar relationship with Anderson, the number of officers who could have restrained DiMaggio instead of shooting him, and the fact that DiMaggio was not threatening harm toward Anderson, the FBI's use of force was unduly excessive, prejudicial, and unjustified. He hopes to call Anderson as a witness in the case.

"Our position is that this is a very well respected hostage rescue team, so we're presuming they had eyes and ears on the ground, and surveillance equipment so they could hear and see what was being done, so if that's the case and they did hear that, the question is why did they wait until he got to the gun? There was plenty of time and to stop him and warn him before he touched the weapon," Greer told VICE News.

"Our concern is they sat and waited until there was an opportunity to take a shot, rather than do their duty in the circumstances to apprehend an alleged criminal," he said.

Hummer said that the public's perceptions of police would affect the way juries weighted police and witness testimony in wrongful death cases.

"Now, most people up to age 60 or so have had bad experiences with police. The last three sitting presidents have had bad experiences with police, whether from marijuana use or alcohol use or the color of their skin, and so a lot of people are thinking that maybe police aren't what they built themselves up to be," he said. "There's a suspicion of power generally in the US and now it's permeating police, so that coupled with the technology that now everybody has, there may now be a shift."

The FBI did not immediately return requests for comment.

Follow Colleen Curry on Twitter: @currycolleen

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Op maandag 10 augustus 2015 13:41 schreef OMG het volgende:
Waar zijn ze precies aan het rellen in dag filmpje? Ook het plunderen heb ik gemist.

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Op maandag 10 augustus 2015 12:25 schreef Mani89 het volgende:
Ze zijn inmiddels weer aan het plunderen en rellen geslagen ter gelegenheid van het 1-jarig jubileum van de dood van Michael Brown.

USA: Shots fired in Ferguson one year on from Mike Brown's death

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Op maandag 10 augustus 2015 13:43 schreef Mani89 het volgende:

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Ja in dat filmpje zijn ze op de politie aan het schieten.

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Op maandag 10 augustus 2015 13:55 schreef moussie het volgende:

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Waar haal je dat plunderen en de rellen vandaan?

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Tensions have been high in Ferguson following a second bout of looting. At least 12 shots were fired and the crowd scattered and sped off in cars.

The situation began to escalate just after 10pm when a Ferguson police officer told the protesters on a megaphone: 'Remaining in the street is a violation of law. You must move onto the sidewalk or be subject to arrest'.

Police put on helmets and riot shields and formed a line. Protesters walked up and down the line saying: 'F*** you' to every officer until the shots rang out.

Paul Hampel, a reporter with the St Louis Post Dispatch, was beaten up and robbed. He had blood coming down the right side of his face and asked other journalists for a phone to call his wife.

In another looting incident, rioters smashed the glass front door of a beauty store on West Florissant Avenue and tried to get into other shops on the same strip.

A group of a dozen youths in their early 20s were seen running away as alarms rang out.

Police officers in cars and SUVs surrounded Bowen Beauty Supply, which had been smashed, as well as Ferguson Laundry, the Nail Trap nail salon, Ferguson Burger restaurant and another beauty store.

The looting took place despite the pouring rain and even though dozens of police were stationed close by.

Before the looting took place around 9pm, protesters had walked up and down West Florissant Avenue holding their arms up in the rain shouting, 'Fight back, shoot back' and 'No justice, no peace'.

A cash register was stolen from Bowen's Beauty Store and found dumped further up the street, St Louis Post Dispatch reporter Paul Hempel tweeted.

Shortly afterwards, a glass fitter measured the front door of the beauty store that had been smashed and put a board over it.

At a barbers store, the owners stood out the front in a show of force to stop others from looting.

Writing on Twitter Anthony French, a city Alderman whose ward covers Ferguson, branded the thieves as 'opportunistic criminals (who) used the cover of rain'. He called them 'pathetic and disappointing'.

On West Florissant Avenue a stand off ensued with protesters blocking traffic whilst 30 police stood by watching.

St Louis County officers wore bullet proof vests, gloves and had pepper spray and white plastic hand ties on their utility belts.

Among the officers present were Ferguson interim police chief Andre Anderson, St Louis County police chief Jon Belmar and Missouri Highway Patrol captain Ron Johnson.

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Op maandag 10 augustus 2015 13:57 schreef moussie het volgende:

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Ik zie anders een hoop zwarte mensen wegduiken en geen enkele politieagent in dat filmpie

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Op maandag 10 augustus 2015 14:10 schreef moussie het volgende:
looting, bij de kapper en de nagelstudio .. yeah right.

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Op maandag 10 augustus 2015 14:26 schreef OMG het volgende:
Ook "ze" trouwens. . Je brengt het alsof heel Ferguson weer op stelten staat.