An advisory panel found that Waller County Jail needs a major overhaul including a new facility, better mental health screenings for inmates and a body cam policy for officers.
HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — A fired Texas trooper pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a charge of misdemeanor perjury stemming from his arrest last summer of Sandra Bland, a black woman who was later found dead in a county jail. Brian Encinia entered his plea during a brief appearance before a Waller County judge as protesters […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas trooper indicted over his arrest of a black woman who was later found dead in jail has been formally fired, three months after his bosses first announced they would do so, state officials said Wednesday. Former Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Brian Encinia can still appeal the decision […]
Sandra Bland's mother Geneva Reed-Veal is the latest family member of a police brutality victim to endorse a presidential candidate.
HOUSTON (AP) — The Texas state trooper who pulled over Sandra Bland and now faces a perjury charge in the case remains on the payroll even as a federal judge heard arguments Thursday on whether a wrongful death lawsuit should be delayed until he’s tried in criminal court. Brian Encinia deserves a fair criminal trial […]
Nick Cannon felt moved to deliver a spoken word piece regarding the #OscarsSoWhite controversy. In a video of himself posted to Facebook over the weekend, Cannon tells viewers that his poem is not to be mistaken as “another trophy rant,” but rather a chance to focus on issues he believes are more important than boycotting […]
Encinia is facing up to a year in prison and $4,000 in fines for not following protocol during Bland's traffic stop.
CHICAGO (AP) — The mother of a black woman found dead in a Texas jail cell after a traffic stop in July said Thursday that a perjury charge against the white state trooper who pulled her over is “not justice.” An emotional Geneva Reed-Veal told reporters in Chicago that the trooper should have been charged […]
State Trooper Brian Encinia is accused of lying in his incident report of Bland's arrest and for being unprofessional during her traffic stop.
Family lawyers say the Texas trooper lacked probable cause to make the traffic stop in the first place, and committed assault and battery during the arrest.
HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — A Texas grand jury declined to indict sheriff’s officials or jailers in the death of a black woman at a county jail last summer, three days after a state trooper pulled her over for a minor traffic violation that led to a combative exchange and her arrest. The grand jury’s decision […]
HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — A grand jury decided on Monday that no felony crime was committed by the sheriff’s office or jailers in the treatment of a black woman who died in a Southeast Texas county jail last summer. But prosecutor Darrell Jordan said the Waller County grand jury reached no decision on whether the […]
