The 28-year-old was pulled over for a traffic violation and was found hanging in her cell, three days later
Encina told Bland she was on her way to jail, as she tearfully argued against being carted away over a minor violation. It got worse from there, with Encina brutally slamming Bland to the ground while she screamed. Through all the commotion, Bland managed to alert her captor that she was epileptic, and his only response to that was, “Good.”
Bland was then charged with “assaulting a public servant” and thrown into Waller County Jail, and placed in her own cell so she wouldn’t be a threat to other inmates.One has to imagine how this exact scenario would have played out differently for a white woman. In 2018,of former Port Authority official Caren Z.
Unfortunately, Bland’s story turned out very differently. She was unable to post the $5,000 bail and was later found hanging in her cell “in a semi-standing position,” reportedly having taken her own life. Encina, meanwhile, was only indicted on a charge of perjury for claiming that he pulled Bland out of her car in order to professionally process the traffic violation. In the end, those charges were dropped in exchange for his permanent exit from law enforcement.
Bland’s family receive a $1.9 million settlement from their wrongful death lawsuit, but that hasn’t quelled their desire to reopen the case and launch a more thorough investigation into the circumstances that led to an unfathomable tragedy., which aims to arm police officers with techniques on how to de-escalate situations and provide protections for people in jail who suffer from mental illness or are dealing with substance abuse.
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