The Power of Sandra Bland’s Cellphone Video

[embedded content] Power is about angles. It’s a position, posture, and pose. It concerns the slant of realities meeting—or occasionally clashing—at a shared point. The image currently circulating of Texas state trooper Brian Encinia is one such image, telling in its visceral, ominous skew. Released this week by Dallas television station WFAA, it is captured …

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