Brian Encinia charged over statement put in his incident report following Bland’s arrest last July for allegedly assaulting him during a traffic stopThe 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, and 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 end investigation. The jury did not believe that,” Jordan said. The charge is a course A misdemeanour punishable by up to a year in jail and a $4000 fine.
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Source: theguardian.com