A highway trooper pulled Bland over for failing to signal but she was arrested for assaulting the officer after their altercation escalated from verbal to physical.<\/p>\n
\nWhen asked if she believed her sister was pulled over because of her race, Cooper said that she thought “he pulled her over because she was an out-of-state resident.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nCooper, who stood alongside her mother, other sister and several religious leaders, said that her sister must have felt scared because of the trooper’s alleged threats and decision to point a stun gun at Bland.<\/p>\n
\n“When you tell me you’re going to light me up, I feel extremely threatened and I’m not going to get out of my car,” she said, defending her sister’s actions.<\/span><\/p>\n“I’m infuriated and everybody else should be infuriated as well,” she said of the trooper’s actions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nLambert said that they were not in a position to accept or deny the Texas Department of Public Safety’s claims that the dash cam footage has not been edited, and they said that if they are going to make a decision on that they will have to call in a video expert.<\/p>\n
\n“The long and short of it is we want everything that happened… up until the time that she was found to have died and beyond to come to light,” Lambert said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThe trooper involved in the car stop has been put on administrative duties pending the outcome of the investigation. The family has ordered an independent autopsy of Bland, though they have not publicly released the results nor have they confirmed that the results have been finalized.<\/p>\n
\n“Right now Sandy is speaking and this family feels Sandy is speaking saying ‘Find the truth,'” Lambert said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nCulled from ABC News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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