Trooper who arrested Sandra Bland formally fired

[gollygee]

http://www.texastribune.org/2016/03/02/texas-dps-formally-fires-trooper-who-arrested-sand/

Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw has formally fired Brian Encinia, the trooper who arrested Sandra Bland, the agency announced Wednesday.

In the letter of final termination, McCraw said Tuesday: "I have carefully considered all the points raised by you in our meeting on February 5, 2016. I have determined that you have not rebutted the charges set out in the statement of charges of January 28, 2016. No cause has been presented to alter my preliminary decision. Therefore, it is now my decision that you be discharged from the Texas Department of Public Safety effective at 5:00 p.m., upon the date you receive this letter, pursuant to the authority vested in me by Section 411.007, Government Code."

Encinia signed the letter Wednesday morning.

Encinia stopped Bland near the Prairie View A&M University campus on July 10, 2015 for failing to properly signal a lane change. After a heated argument, the trooper arrested Bland for assaulting a public servant. Bland was found hanged in her Waller County jail cell three days later. Her death has been ruled a suicide.

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I should add that, while this isn't new information, he was also indicted on a perjury charge: http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/06/us/sandra-bland-trooper-brian-encinia-indicted/

[stellanoir]

1. phew

[raging moderate]

2. Thank you for this information. Poor Sandra Bland!

I am still shuddering when I remember what I saw and heard in that tape.

[monicaangela]

3. This should have been included in that article in parenthesis...

(How can we make this thing go away...maybe if we fire him).

[raging moderate]

4. Sandra Bland wants us to keep it from going away.

Remember, she thanked that person for filming the episode.