The Texas Attorney General filed a motion to dismiss civil rights claims filed by Sandra Bland’s mother against Brian Encinia, a Texas state trooper.
Bland, who was black, died in a Waller County jail after Texas state trooper Encinia stopped her for failing to use a turn signal. Bland’s death drew international attention and raised questions about the criminal justice system in that part of Texas and prompted Bland’s mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, to file in August a civil rights lawsuit in Houston federal court naming Encinia and Waller County, among others, as defendants.
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