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Yesterday [July 22], while many were taking sides between Meek Mill and Drake, the Texas state police were releasing the chilling dash cam video footage of Sandra Bland being arrested by state trooper Brian Encinia. The footage showed many skips and rewinds that were called “edits” by viewers. Although spokesman for the Department of Public Safety, Tom Vinger said that it was “technical difficulties,” we beg to differ.

One day later, the disgust from the video continues as Bland’s family expresses their infuriation with the footage.

Check it out after the jump.


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“I’m infuriated and everybody else should be infuriated,” Bland’s sister, Sharon Cooper, told CNN reporters. Because we were dealing with an officer “who felt maybe his ego was bruised,” she continued, Bland is no longer alive. Cooper says there is no reason that switching lanes without signaling should have led to her arrest and “suicide” when she was ecstatic about leaving.

Cannon Lambert, the family attorney asked during a press conference, “Why is it that a 28-year-old woman who had received two job offers take her own life? Why would she call her mom in excitement about those jobs and take her own life?” Bland was traveling to Texas to start a new job at her alma mater.

Waller County Sheriff R. Glenn Smith is now claiming that Bland had informed the intake officer of a previous attempt at suicide. The following questions were asked.

Have you ever been very depressed?
Do you feel this way now?
Have you had thoughts of killing yourself in the last year?
Have you ever attempted suicide?

Bland’s answers, according to the released forms, was yes. However, on a different sheet, the word “no” appears next to questions about mental illness and attempted suicide. Why the inconsistency? It hasn’t been answered.

In addition to these forms, there has also been a voicemail left Bland on friend Lavaugn Mosley’s phone, that will aide in the investigation.

In the voicemail, obtained by Houston station KTRK, Bland seemed frustrated to be behind bars, reports CBS News‘ Omar Villafranca – should she not have?

“They got me set at a $5,000 bond. I’m just still at a loss for words about this whole process, how this switching lanes with no signal turned into all of this, I don’t even know,” Bland apparently said.

Of course, police are disputing whether or not the voice belongs to Bland.

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