Sandy Bland questionable arrest leads to mysterious death.

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Baalzamon said:

While the whole situation still seems pretty messed up, here's a portion of the story that gets completely ignored: http://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/Suburban-Woman-Found-Dead-in-Jail-Had-Previous-Encounters-With-Police-316025661.html#ixzz3geb6z8s6
-She owes over $7k in traffic related fines dating all the way back to February 2014.
-She has had warrants against her in the past for unknown reasons.
-She has numerous fines related to driving without insurance.
-She received a DUI (which by itself doesn't make you a horrible person...I know people with them, but the track record speaks for itself)
All I'm getting at is...if I were to see this as a cop, quite frankly, I'd probably be a dick to the lady too. She is a low life that doesn't respect the law.

Edit: Oh, and I forgot to mention. Even though it isn't why she was arrested, the lady deserved to be in jail until she decides to live up to her mistakes in life and pay her damned fines in a reasonable amount of time. I mean, seriously.

It's just WAY to predictable that the demonization of the victim would happen almost immediately.  None of this information has anything to do with what happened.  It just makes people feel better about it after the fact.

And for those saying she escalated things, get a f*%king clue.

Below is a transcript of the key part of the exchange.  Bland is completely calm and polite right up until the cop asks here to get out of the car, apparently (and unbelievably) because she asked why she had to put out her cigarrette.  When the officer says "Are you done?" like a condescending POS, it was obvious he was going to escalate the situation, which he did shortly afterwards.

(Encinia returns to his car for several minutes, then approaches Bland again.)

Encinia: OK, ma’am. (Pause.) You OK?

Bland: I’m waiting on you. This is your job. I’m waiting on you. When’re you going to let me go?

Encinia: I don’t know, you seem very really irritated.

Bland: I am. I really am. I feel like it’s crap what I’m getting a ticket for. I was getting out of your way. You were speeding up, tailing me, so I move over and you stop me. So yeah, I am a little irritated, but that doesn’t stop you from giving me a ticket, so.

Encinia: Are you done?

Bland: You asked me what was wrong, now I told you.

Encinia: OK.

Bland: So now I’m done, yeah.

Encinia: You mind putting out your cigarette, please? If you don’t mind?

Bland: I’m in my car, why do I have to put out my cigarette?

Encinia: Well you can step on out now.