Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland indicted for perjury

The state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland, a black woman who died in a south-east Texas county jail last summer, has been indicted by a Texas grand jury on a perjury charge.

The charge results from a statement trooper Brian Encinia made after Bland’s arrest, said Darrell Jordan, a special prosecutor in the case. “In the probable cause statement he stated that he withdrew Sandra Bland from the car to further the traffic stop investigation. The jury did not believe that,” Jordan said. The charge is a class A misdemeanour punishable by up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fin.

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