Posted on 07/22/2015 2:44:18 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Why did Officer Encinia approach the car on the passenger's side when he interacted with Sandra Bland?
Officer Encinia released his gun holster before he approached Sandra Bland's car. Is this standard practice with all traffic stops?
Was Sandra Bland forcibly removed from her car because Officer Encinia didn't like her attitude?
Officer Encinia radios "10:98," and requests a second car. Well, a 10:98 is a jail break, or an escaping prisoner. A 10:78, that is, "assistance needed" would have been more appropriate?
When a detainee notifies the arresting officer of a preexisting medical condition, such as epilepsy, and/or an injury sustained during the arrest, are paramedics called to the scene?
I have one question for the female police officer that arrived on the scene: How you doin'? Do you feel you fully exercised your unique position as a female police officer to use your voice and presence to calm this irate twenty-something woman down?
Why are two police officers searching the vehicle so thoroughly for a minor traffic stop?
Is that poor editing, or a magic trick that tow truck drivers learn in Texas?
Did Sandra Bland have a right to know why she was being arrested?
Did anyone recite Sandra Bland's Miranda rights?
(Excerpt) Read more at m.huffpost.com ...
I’m qualified to answer only the first question.
Most times I have been stopped by a traffic cop, they will approach the car from the passenger side. It happens everytime I’m stopped on a freeway. Why? Because they don’t know if the driver has a loaded gun within easy reach. They don’t know if you’re the type to point a pistol out of a slightly open car window, aim at a cop and pull the trigger.
If they racially profile, it is because of what has been experienced. I don’t object to that.
I read she refused medical treatment at the scene.
As for Miranda rights, they are only regularly read immediately on TV and in the movies. Suspects can be held for hours without having them read. The only consequences of not reading them would be making any confession inadmissible.
Yes most of the time an officer does loosen their weapon in the holster when approaching a car. It is simply good defensive behavior
However, I find it interesting that every last question the Huffington Post asked focused on possible police misconduct. Odd that they couldn't even come up with even one question about Bland’s behavior.
She was forcibly removed because she would not comply with the officer’s lawful order to exit the vehicle on her own. If there is any question, it might be why he told her to get out of the vehicle.
However, doing so is a common procedure and the right of the police to order drivers and passengers out of vehicles during lawful traffic stops was affirmed by the SCOTUS in Pennsylvania vs Mimms.
Interesting...I have been stopped many times (ah to be young and dumb again)...and have never been approached from the passenger side.
10-codes vary between agiences.
Need to access the departments 10-code list.
That makes perfect sense to me. An officer in CA was shot to death while making a traffic stop today. Unfastening a holster seems like a reasonable precaution and not in any way an aggressive act.
Police codes vary between departments.
For the Texas Department of Public Safety a 10 98 means “Criminal History Indicated”
This would seem to indicate that he was aware that Bland had a criminal record, which would give him reason to be more cautious and perhaps aggressive with her.
It is amazing how badly research the HPs questions are. The answers to most of the questions are obvious or easily researched.
What sort of criminal history did she have?
The order for her to exit the vehicle was not legal. The order came at the end of the trooper’s lawful reason for the stop. At that point, there is no longer a need for detainment via custodial stop. The officer did not like her smoking which she is legally allows to smoke in her own car. There is no need or cause for her to exit the vehicle. SCOTUS has also ruled that police and hold you only long enough to execute the stop.
Just teach your children to respect the cops. Say “Yes Sir” and “No Sir” when pulled over. None of this would have happened.
That is completely false. The stop was not yet complete. He had not given her the summons (warning actually) and told her she was free to go. If she had driven off at that point would she be in the clear?
And that's in CA, TX, and OK.
My understanding is they approach the vehicle on the passenger so they’re not between the vehicle and traffic. A simple safety measure
As for how long he held her, the whole stop would have been completed in under 10 minutes if the crazy, racist woman behaved in a civil manner.
It may have to do with the fact that I’m black. I don’t know. I don’t obsessive over comparative experience at this level.
When he went back to the car, he asked her if she was ok.. So how was she acting for him to ask her this question? We have no idea, but she could have been acting as though she was under the influence of something. Then he asked her if she was upset at which point she became verbally aggressive which could also be indicative of alcohol or drugs.
THEN he asked her to put the cigarette out...... He had already decided at that point, he was going to ask her to get out of the car and he didn’t want her getting out with a lit cigarette in her hand, possibly afraid of her burning him.
The feds got involved in this quickly.
They are dragging their feet with the murder case in Chattanooga.
Black lives matter
Military lives don’t matter.
Showing their true colors.
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