Sandra Bland: Video Analysis

Now that we know the whole story, let’s look at both sides of the coin. Sandra Bland was driving to her new job in Texas on July 10th, 2015. She was pulled over by state trooper Brian Encinia because of an “erratic lane change” on the busy highways of Texas in the middle of the day. In the video, yes there is a video, Officer Brian walks over to her car and tells her what he is pulling her over for, and asks for her license and registration. Everything is going fine and Sandra is cooperating with Officer Brian with his requests, even answering his question about how long she’s been in Texas. Now, first we’re going to look at it from Sandra’s perspective. Anyway, Sandra was smoking a cigarette at the time she was pulled over. After he runs her credentials …show more content…
She is mainly mad because of the reason for the stop, arguing that she saw him speeding up, and tried to get out of his way. When she is done telling him why she is upset, he then asks her to put out her cigarette. She gets even more upset and is then told to get out the car. Earlier I said that we would look at this from Sandra’s eyes, now as things are getting more and more heated, let’s do so. Sandra is going in for an important job at a school that she graduated from in 2009. So since this is an important job to get and a lot hangs on one interview, I would be a little more than a bit nervous. I buy a pack of cigarettes from a store with my own money and make the decision on my own to smoke it. Now, I am being pulled over for doing what I learned to do when a police officer is behind me speeding up as if he is trying to catch someone ahead of me. So not only am I being pulled over by a state trooper, but I might miss the first day of interviews at my job because of it. Don’t lie, you’d probably be pretty upset too. But back to what’s going on, the officer has now opened the door and is raising his voice telling Sandra to get out of the