SANDRA BLAND
When’re you going to let me go?
I’m in my car, why do I have to put out my cigarette?
Why am I –
Am I getting removed for a failure to signal?
OK, so you’re going to yank me out of my car?
I’m under arrest – for what?
Why am I being apprehended?
So you’re threatening to drag me out of my own car?
You’re doing all this for a failure to signal?
You feelin good about yourself?
You feel real good about yourself, don’t you?
Why am I being arrested?
Why can’t you –
Why am I being arrested?
Why can’t you tell me that part?
Why won’t you not tell me what’s going on?
Are you fucking kidding me?
Are you fucking serious?
You want me to sit down now?
Or are you going to throw me on the floor?
Would that make you feel better about yourself?
I’m getting a warning? For what? For what?!
Do I feel like I have anything on me that’s illegal?
You’re about to break my wrist – can you stop?
Don’t it make you feel good, Officer Encinia?
Don’t it make you feel real good?
Excerpt from Testify (Octopus Books, 2017).
