"You mind putting out your cigarette, please?" That's the question Texas State Trooper Brian Encinia asks motorist Sandra Bland about nine minutes into a police car dashcam video of her arrest, released
Tuesday by the Texas Department of Public Safety amid nationwide
backlash following the 28-year-old woman's death in jail last week.
There's a brief, almost contemplative silence following Encinia's
appeal. Bland has a choice: accommodate the officer's request, or deny
it.
Bland, audibly and visibly irritated, chooses the second option,
asking whether she actually has to put out her cigarette in her own
vehicle.
The choice is now Encinia's: let Bland's impolite comment slide and
finish giving her a warning for failing to signal a lane change, or make
the encounter more painful for her.
Encinia makes his decision almost immediately.
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