- ABC News
- July 22, 2015
Police Release New Video of Sandra Bland's Arrest
Texas police have released a second version of the dashboard-camera footage of Sandra Bland's traffic stop and ensuing arrest. The footage was recorded on the dashcam of a highway trooper who pulled Bland over July 10 and shows their interaction as it escalates from a verbal exchange to a physical one. Bland's arrest is being scrutinized in light of her death in a jail cell three days later. The Texas Department of Public Safety in Austin first released a 52-minute version of the footage Tuesday night via YouTube, but viewers quickly noticed video anomalies. Some viewers lashed out on social media, claiming the tape had been edited, though a department spokesman denied any edits had been made in a statement released this morning. The new version of the video, which is just over 49 minutes long, was just released and does not have any of the visual anomalies that were noted in the first version. In one instance in the first footage, the tow truck driver who arrived at the scene...