For example when State Trooper Cousano pulled his weapon on me and my college friend back in 1991! He had ORDERED ME to produce my license and registration. My license was in my wallet. But my registration was in my glove compartment. Cousana PULLED OUT HIS WEAPON! As I reached to get the registration and screamed "I WANNA GO HOME TONIGHT!" and from that point on? I was in control of that situation. And I know some of you are like, fuck you talking about!? He could have
But clearly he DID NOT SHOOT ME. Because I AM TYPING THIS. It amazes me how we have nerves of steel facing down and killing one another. But then turn STRAIGHT BITCHES WHEN FACED WITH WHITE OPPRESSION. I can't help you with that part. And I won't. I could type in details of what I mean by HOW I GOT CONTROL OF THAT SITUATION. But it all started with HIM GIVING ME AN ORDER AND THEN HE FREAKS OUT AS I COMPLIED WITH HIS ORDER! His BITCH-ASS FREAKED OUT BECAUSE HE KNEW HE HAD NO FUCKIN BUSINESS TAILGATING ME ON ROUTE 1 AT 1AM IN THE FUCKIN MORNING WITH NONE OF HIS FUCKIN LIGHTS ON! IN FUCKIN KNOWN CLAN-COUNTRY AROUND LINCOLN UNIVERSITY!
And once he gave ME THE WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY I FUCKIN TOOK IT! Mind you that THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS GOING TO BE THE TYPICAL NIGGERS JUST DO WHAT WE TELL YOU BULLSHIT. Do not be SURPRISED AND EXPECT NO LESS. Further proving that UNTIL WE REBUILD OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AND BEGIN TO EMPLOY AND EMPOWER OURSELVES, WHITES AND OTHERS WILL CONTINUE TO DISPLAY THEIR CONTEMPT AND DISRESPECT FOR US AND OUR CHILDREN! IT IS UP TO US TO EMPOWER US! Here is the article;
Can a police officer order you out of your car? Experts weigh in on Sandra Bland case
Can a police officer order you out of your car during a routine traffic stop as
a Texas trooper did to Sandra Bland? And what about ordering you to put out
a cigarette while you are still in your car?
Yes, an officer can order you out of your car, police experts agreed. But whether
an officer can command you to extinguish a cigarette is murkier, depending on
whether the cigarette is perceived as a threat. Several also said that some of the
trooper’s actions were unprofessional and did not make for good policing.
Specifically, Texas Trooper Brian T. Encinia should not have reached into Bland’s
vehicle when she refused his commands or threatened to “light” her up with a
Taser, experts who saw the video said.
Three days after Bland’s July 10 arrest in
Prairie View, Texas, she was found hanging
from a plastic bag in her jail cell, officials
said. A preliminary autopsy classified her
death as a suicide, but this has been disputed
by Bland’s family, who say she was a vibrant
woman with a bright future.
Encinia has been placed on administrative leave for violating department
procedures and Department of Public Safety courtesy policy, officials said.
They have not elaborated on the violations.
The Times asked four nationally known police experts to review the video and
comment on Encinia’s tactics.
Seth Stoughton, a University of South Carolina law professor and former Florida
police officer, said Enicinia missed several opportunities to de-escalate tension
and should have explained in calmer tones what he was doing and why.
“He certainly has the legal authority to get her to step out of the car,” Stoughton
said. “But in this case, if he is exercising his authority because she defying his
direction to put out the cigarette, then that is more based on his ego than
public safety.... Just because it is legal to order her out of the car doesn't make
it a professional approach in modern policing.
“This is a systemic problem with policing,” Stoughton said. “There is emphasis
on compliance over cooperation.”
on compliance over cooperation.”
There are no laws that require an officer to order alleged violators to extinguish
a cigarette in their car during a traffic stop, he said.
“It was a request, not an order,” he said. “If a person was out of the car, then an
officer could determine it poses a safety threat and order it be put out. But it is
hard to argue that inside the car.”
The dash cam video released Tuesday by
Texas authorities captured the beginning
of the confrontation between the two.
Bland’s arrest takes place outside the
camera range, but the audio continued.
At first, Encinia approaches Bland's vehicle
and takes her license and registration before returning to the police cruiser.
The officer returns to the driver's side and asks Bland to put out her cigarette.
The officer returns to the driver's side and asks Bland to put out her cigarette.
She refuses.
Encinia shouts at her to obey his orders and to get out of the car. He reaches
through the open driver's-side door after Bland refuses to comply and pulls
out a Taser. “Get out of the car,” he said. “I will light you up. Get out. Now.
Get out of the car.”
After a few moments, Encinia steps back and Bland gets out of the car. The
exchange grows more animated and hostile.
“You're about to break my wrist,” Bland is heard to say. At one point, she
shouts, “You're a real man now!”
Throughout, Bland is questioning why she is being arrested and often shouts
expletives. Encinia responds in angry tones that she should obey his orders.
Ed Obayashi, a sheriff's deputy in Northern California and attorney who
advises several sheriff's departments, said the initial stop and interaction
comply with case law dealing with police powers to detain a person. But,
he said, events take a negative turn after Encinia comments to Bland that
she seems irritated because she was pulled over and then asked her to put
out her cigarette.
“The officer here acts very appropriately up until the time he says can you
put out that cigarette and she asks why she cannot smoke in her car,”
Obayashi said. “He then says, ‘I need you to step out of your car.’ Under
Supreme Court doctrine he has the right to tell her to step out of the car.
But then, as she refuses and he struggles to get her out of the vehicle, he
threatens her with a Taser.
“When he says ‘I am going to light you
up,’ things go south,” Obayashi said.
“He is pointing a Taser and the verbal
discourse is on. What follows is the
perfect storm.”
After Bland steps out of the vehicle,
the trooper orders her to the side of the
road.
Obayashi said the trooper keeps relative control as he informs her that she
is being arrested for resisting orders. As the pair move out of the camera's
vision, a struggle can be heard.
Bland repeatedly uses expletives and complains, “You are about to break
my wrists.” She complains about her head and says she suffers from
epilepsy. Encinia replies, “Good.”
Obayashi said officers legally don't have to explain why they want you to get
out of a vehicle. Given Bland’s belligerence and behavior, Encinia could have
perceived her as representing a potential danger.
The trooper later wrote in an affidavit that Bland kicked him, leading to his
use of force in which he took her to the ground.
“People don't appreciate the danger of escalating a situation with law
enforcement,” said Charles “Sid” Heal, a former L.A. County sheriff's
enforcement,” said Charles “Sid” Heal, a former L.A. County sheriff's
commander and force expert. “If a person believes they have a case, wait
until after jail and sue. You don't want to escalate the situation to the point
the officer feels threatened.”
Heal said the roadside confrontation is all too common.
“As far as what I saw on the video I wouldn't say that it was outside of
standards nationwide,” he said. In terms of courtesy, Heal said, “raising
your voice to a suspect is lowest level of force.”
Heal said when Bland refused to get out of the car the situation became
more difficult. But reaching into a vehicle is often a mistake and makes an
officer vulnerable. Heal said the officer should have handcuffed her
immediately upon her getting out instead of waiting until they got off the
road.
“If she kicked him as he says when they were out of the car, then at that
point some kind of force is necessary,” Heal said.
Retired Los Angeles Police Capt. Greg Meyer said Bland's behavior led to
the result.
“Officers have complete discretion to control the movements of the violator
, including making them get out the car,” he said.
Meyer said it is standard practice to have someone put out their cigarette.
“No one, including a police officer,
wants to get a burning cigarette jammed
into their face or eye; it’s basic procedure,
” he said. “The officer asked politely if
she would mind putting out her cigarette.
The violator then raised her voice,
actively resisted multiple lawful directions
to get out of the car. The officer requested a backup officer to respond. The
officer raised his voice several times in what turned out to be a futile effort
to overcome that resistance.”
In hindsight, Meyer said, it may have been better to wait for backup.
“The lady seemed committed to her resistance to lawful detention and
arrest, so the presence of a backup unit might not have made much
difference,” he said.
“This is yet another case of someone who chooses to illegally resist
the directions of a police officer, thus escalating the situation, “ he said.
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