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Eugene

(61,592 posts)
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:49 PM Mar 2016

Texas ex-trooper pleads not guilty in arrest of woman who died in jail

Source: Reuters

World | Tue Mar 22, 2016 5:43pm EDT

Texas ex-trooper pleads not guilty in arrest of woman who died in jail

AUSTIN, TEXAS | BY JON HERSKOVITZ

A Texas former trooper who arrested a black woman motorist later found hanged in her jail cell pleaded not guilty on Tuesday on a misdemeanor charge of lying on the arrest report he made of the July 2015 incident, a court official said.

Brian Encinia, who arrested 28-year-old Sandra Bland in Waller County, was fired this month for his conduct that escalated tension in the arrest, which led to her apparent suicide.

Protesters gathered at the court about 50 miles northwest of Houston demanding a full accounting from law enforcement of the incident that fueled simmering tensions over suspected racial bias in U.S. policing.

Encinia was indicted by the grand jury in Waller County in January. He is suspected of making false statements in the arrest report about the reason he removed Bland from her vehicle.

The misdemeanor charge is punishable by up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-death-idUSKCN0WO32B
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Texas ex-trooper pleads not guilty in arrest of woman who died in jail (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2016 OP
SO even when caught red handed, he will fake innocence? Rex Mar 2016 #1
I hope he spends a long time in prison malaise Mar 2016 #2
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
1. SO even when caught red handed, he will fake innocence?
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:51 PM
Mar 2016

Do they give a lie detector test to potential police officers?

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