This is chilling. Just wanted to find out: Is a cop supposed to be able to tell you to put out your cigarette on a traffic signal warning? Can they reach and open your door for that? Can they drag you out? WTF.
If he says its a lawful arrest does he have to give a reason?
I’m guessing the OP is talking about this.
Strike when I said “Lawful arrest” He said “This is a lawful order!” over and over.
Killed the poor girl over a cigarette …
Gyrate posted about this video in the omnibus thread in the Pit:
My emphasis.
I didn’t catch it the first time I watched the thread because I was listening to the audio only by then. What’s going on there?
Yeah, that’s weird. That white car is in and out at least three times. White car turning left at 32:44 is same car turning at 33:12.
Someone tweeted a list of all the edit times:
25:18
26:06
26:29
26:40
32:38
33:05
33:24
33:56
34:06
So what are the chances the video at the jail was doctored as well?
I don’t know anything about technology but could those seeming edits just be the result of crappy camera gear?
All things are possible but that’d be a pretty odd glitch, particularly as the audio is unaffected.
I worked in post-production for a short while. I could see faulty recording gear causing flickers, artifacts (garbled areas of one or multiple frames), dropped frames or loss of video/sound altogether. *Repeating *frames is a new one for me however. I’m not sure how that would even work.
There is a new warning sign in the area.
Questions abound. Why did she have to put out her cigarette for a lousy traffic stop? THAT was worth pulling her out of the car for? Why would this be a lawful order? The dashcam video has some quirks. I think that needs to go to the FBI for recovery or reconstruction. Was the autopsy done properly? Could they tell a hanging from strangulation by others? Did they properly document with photographs? The jail video- we don’t see Bland. We see people coming and going. Who’s to say that they weren’t the killers?
So we have two possibilities.
Either the police department conspired to lynch a woman in her cell for no apparent reason and make it look like a suicide, then got IT to delete the video footage, fake the forensic evidence in the autopsy, and then decided to go back and edit the video footage of her arrest, but leave the audio intact, but not leave out the parts where the officer screams at her and threatens her with a Taser in violation of police procedure.
Or, a depressed woman with PTSD hanged herself in nail.
She was pulled in for DWB, that’s reason enough in some locales. There was no need for IT to alter the jail footage as it proves nothing: we don’t see inside the cell and we don’t see Bland. Presuming that the people we do see are innocent requires an act of faith. Since there are some anomalies with the arrest video, we need to find out if they can be reconstructed.
What is the official reason that she was held for three days?
Regards,
Shodan
How about:
Police department arrests a woman for no reason, roughing her up in the process. When she dies in jail from an untreated head injury, they panic and fake her suicide. Then they go back and cut out the parts of the video that show not just violation of procedure but evidence of criminal intent. The autopsy was sloppy: “Plastic bag around her neck. She’s dead. Must be suicide! Next.”
“A woman” happened to be a vocal police misconduct activist that could have publicized the bullshit she’d just went through, sued and/or gotten the arresting officer fired on the spot. So there’s that, if the possibility of “racist cop(s) lynching uppity nigger” just seem too impossible to contemplate. For some reason. This being rural Texas and all.
I don’t really see what PTSD has to do with anything.
And of course, there’s still the matter of how exactly she got her hands on the garbage bag she purportedly hanged herself with, while in jail and therefore stripped of her possessions. Snuck it up her arse that morning just in case she might need to surreptitiously hang herself at some point, did she ?
What would you consider a valid reason to lynch someone?
That’s right. But sometimes even the improbable explanation is the truth. It’s worth an honest investigation to see where the facts lie. There is enough cause to justify asking the question if the police did anything wrong.
Well, you see the same two white cars and one grey car drive away from the camera quite a few times just between 32:00 and 34:30. It’s hard to see how crappy camera gear could make the same cars reappear over and over again.
Now the cars going ‘poof’ and disappearing from the middle of the road at 32:38, 33:06, 33:25, 33:55, and 33:59 (those same 3 cars, btw), maybe. But it’s not the way I’d bet.
This is obvious; if a person breaks the law they deserve everything that happens to them. Remember, it is illegal to disobey a lawful order from a police officer.