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Camera-Enforced Streets: Creating An Anti-Racist System Of Traffic Enforcement, Katie O'Brien
Camera-Enforced Streets: Creating An Anti-Racist System Of Traffic Enforcement, Katie O'Brien
Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development
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On July 10, 2015, Sandra Bland was pulled over while driving in Prairie View, Texas, for failure to signal a lane change after moving to allow a trooper’s vehicle to pass her car. As the stop progressed, the trooper ordered Bland to get out of her car. When she refused, the trooper threatened to “yank [Bland] out” of her car and “light [her] up” with his taser. After Bland left her vehicle, Trooper Encinia handcuffed her, wrestled her to the ground, and kneeled on her. He later falsely claimed that Bland assaulted him. Three days later, police found Bland …