In the footage, Encinia is heard ordering Bland out of her car. Then when she asked why Encinia responds by drawing his Taser, pointing it directly at Bland and yelling at her, “I will light you up!”

“Wow,” Bland says as she gets out and moves towards the back of the car with the officer. “You’re doing all this for a failure to signal.”

“Yeah, let’s take this to court,” Bland’s adds. “Let’s do it. For a failure to signal.”

Next Encinia orders Bland to put down her phone, prompting her to say she has the right to record what is happening. The video ends moments later.

The video, which had not been seen publicly until now, prompted the Bland family’s former attorney, Cannon Lambert, to accuse the Texas Department of Public Safety of not divulging the footage’s existence during the civil case over her death according to NPR.

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In an email sent to Houston Public Media, the state agency responded by saying the video “is not newly discovered and has in no way been concealed by the department.”

Adding that “the video from Ms. Bland’s cellphone has been treated as public information and made available upon request.”

Sandra Bland’s death by hanging was ruled a suicide — a finding that her family and their advocates have questioned the truth in this ruling. Bland’s mother and sister have also said that regardless of how her death was classified, the 28-year-old should not have been jailed for three days over a traffic stop.

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