[Don Lemon, Cnn Tonight Show:] Breaking news, new video of the traffic stop in Texas that landed a 28-year-old woman in a jail cell. Three days later, she was dead. This is CNN Tonight. I'm Don Lemon. Thanks for joining every one. It starts like a routine traffic stop.
[Unidentified Male:] Give it to me. Are you OK?
[Sandra Bland:] Actually, no. You, this is your job.
[Lemon:] But it quickly turns into this.
[Unidentified Male:] Get out of the car.
[Bland:] And you don't like me.
[Unidentified Male:] I will light you up. Get out.
[Bland:] Wow.
[Unidentified Male:] Now.
[Bland:] Wow.
[Unidentified Male:] Get out of the car.
[Bland:] For a failure to signal?
[Lemon:] And it ends with Sandra Bland in a cell. The cell where she died three days later. What happened? And who is to blame. Also, tonight, Donald Trump topping the polls and talking tough about his opponent. And it's working. Tonight, we're going to talk to some of his supporters who say Trump is just what America needs. But I want to begin with our breaking news right now. Dash cam video released today by the State of Texas. It shows what happened on July 10th when 28-year-old Sandra Bland was pulled over for allegedly failing to signal a lane change. Bland was about to start a new job at Prairie View A&M University for alma mater. And what should have been the kind of routine traffic stop, the stop that happens all the time across this country every day, quickly, went horribly wrong. Take a look.
[Unidentified Male:] Are you okay?
[Bland:] Actually, no. You, this is your job. I'm waiting on you. What do you want to say?
[Unidentified Male:] You seem very irritated.
[Bland:] I am. I really am. But I feel like stop because what I'm getting typical and I'm getting out of your way. You were speeding up, tailing me, so I move over and you stop me. So, yes, I am a little irritated. Well, that doesn't stop you from giving me a ticket.
[Unidentified Male:] Are you done?
[Bland:] You asked me what was wrong, and I told you.
[Unidentified Male:] OK.
[Bland:] So, now I'm done, yes.
[Unidentified Male:] OK. Do 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?
[Unidentified Male:] So, you can step on out now.
[Bland:] I don't have to step out of my car.
[Unidentified Male:] Step out of the car.
[Bland:] Why am I no, you don't have the right...
[Unidentified Male:] Step out of the car.
[Bland:] You do not have the right to do that.
[Unidentified Male:] I do have the right. Now, step out or I will remove you.
[Bland:] I refuse to talk to you evident tonight. Then from myself...
[Unidentified Male:] Step out or I will remove you?
[Bland:] I am getting removed for a failure to signal?
[Unidentified Male:] Step out, or I will remove you? I'm giving you a lawful order. Get out of the car now or I'm going to remove you.
[Bland:] And I'm calling my lawyer.
[Unidentified Male:] I'm going to yank you out if you don't.
[Bland:] OK. You're going to get me out of my car?
[Unidentified Male:] Get out.
[Bland:] OK. All right.
[Unidentified Male:] You don't have to if you have listened to me.
[Bland:] Let's do this.
[Unidentified Male:] Yes, and I'm going to.
[Bland:] Don't touch me.
[Unidentified Male:] Get out of the car.
[Bland:] Don't touch me. I'm not under arrest; you don't have the right to touch me in my car.
[Unidentified Male:] You are under arrest.
[Bland:] I'm under arrest for what?
[Unidentified Male:] 2527 on 10-98. Just send me our 297 unit. Get out of the car. Get out of the car, now!
[Bland:] Why am I being apprehended? You're trying to give me...
[Unidentified Male:] I said get out of the car.
[Bland:] Why am I being apprehended?
[Unidentified Male:] I am giving you a lawful order. I'm going to drag you out of here.
[Bland:] So, you're going to drag me out of my own car?
[Unidentified Male:] Get out of the car? I will write you up. get out, now!
[Bland:] Wow.
[Unidentified Male:] Get out. Now! Get out of the car.
[Bland:] For a failure to signal. You're doing all of this for a failure to signal? Right, yes, let's take this to court.
[Unidentified Male:] Go ahead.
[Bland:] For a failure to signal. Yes, for a failure to signal.
[Unidentified Male:] Get off the phone.
[Bland:] Oh, that's cool.
[Unidentified Male:] Get off the phone.
[Bland:] I'm not on the phone.
[Unidentified Male:] Put your phone down.
[Bland:] I have the right to use my property.
[Unidentified Male:] Put your phone down right now. Put your phone down.
[Bland:] Sir?
[Unidentified Male:] Put your phone down, right now! Put your phone down. Come over here. Come over here now.
[Bland:] You feeling good about this?
[Unidentified Male:] Stand right here.
[Bland:] You feeling good about yourself?
[Unidentified Male:] Stand right there.
[Bland:] For a failure to signal. You're feeling real good about yourself, don't you?
[Unidentified Male:] Turn around now. Turn around now.
[Bland:] I'm trying to tell you. Do I feel like I have anything on me? It doesn't have...
[Unidentified Male:] Come over here.
[Bland:] You have no right on me. You're about to break my wrist. Can you stop!
[Unidentified Male:] Don't do this.
[Bland:] You done broke my wrist. Stop!
[Unidentified Male:] Stop, now. Stop it.
[Unidentified Female:] Stop resisting, ma'am.
[Unidentified Male:] If you would stop, then I would tell you. Now stop.
[Bland:] You are such a [muted]. You are such a [muted]. For a traffic signal.
[Unidentified Male:] You're getting around.
[Bland:] For a traffic signal.
[Unidentified Male:] You are getting around. When you pull away from me, you're resisting arrest.
[Bland:] This makes you feel real good, doesn't it? A female for a traffic signal.
[Unidentified Female:] I got her.
[Bland:] That makes you feel good, officer, doesn't it.
[Unidentified Female:] OK. I know you make serious stuff.
[Bland:] I know it makes you feel real good. You're a real man. Now you slam me. Knocked my head into the ground. I've got epilepsy.
[Unidentified Male:] Good. Good.
[Unidentified Female:] You should have thought about that before you start resisting.
[Bland:] All right. All right. Yes, this is real good. Real good for a female. Yes.
[Lemon:] CNN's Ryan Young live for us Prairie View, Texas tonight. It's unfortunate, Ryan. What do officials say about this encounter that we just saw on video?
[Ryan Young, Cnn Correspondent:] Well, Don, first off, I know you've watched the video a couple times yourself. We've watched it a couple times. The attorney for the family gave us a preview yesterday. He talked about what we would see on this video. And he told me yesterday, he said, look, this is going to shock you when you see it and you're not going to understand why she was ever pulled from the car. When you watch it, that's the kind of impression sometimes you get from the moments from what happened. I can tell you, officials weren't happy with what they saw, either. That officer has been placed on administrative duties right now because they say there were several violations involved in this traffic stop. And people have been talking about there could have been chances for de-escalation involved in this, especially since it was a failure to show a signal when changing lanes. And then all of a sudden, that conversation really turns very quickly. And then the next thing you know, a lot of the action happens outside the view of the camera. And of course, when that cell phone person shows up and starts filming this and has that cell phone so you can see some of the other side of this. But you don't get that full moment of when this tussle started, Don.
[Lemon:] So, I think it's interesting that you went inside the county jail, inside this cell 95 where Sandra died. What did you learn from that? What did you see?
[Young:] OK. So, there are several things and I'll break it down for you, Don. First of all, we were standing in the hallway. The hallway, I would say, is about five foot wide. And the sheriff took us through and said, that cameras are actually a motion activated. So, he said they came in with investigators and tried to see if they could duck down, slide by or gain access to a cell without the cameras being tripped. And honestly, he said, the investigators could see that there was no way to get inside her cell without tripping those cameras. That's what he said investigators found. Maybe when they went on the inside. And he said, pretty much, they hadn't touched a lot of that room since Sandra Bland's death. The sandwich that she was supposed to eat was still in the corner. It actually had started growing mold on it. We could see that trash can there where there was one of those liners that were put in, the plastic liner, they said she may have used to hang herself. That was the part that everyone has questions about. How could you use that thin plastic liner to hang yourself. And what the sheriff explained to us is that it was twisted and then it was then turned up on that metal rod on the top half. And he was like, don't forget, you don't have to have your full body weight for suffocation to happen. But, obviously, Don, a lot of questions. When you look at the video, which is separate than everything else and then the fact that she was inside this cell for three days by herself, she was having trouble contacting her family. Yes, she did have a phone inside the cell. But apparently, the pin number that she had, she was having trouble getting in contact with family members, she did talk to her sister. But she was in that room by herself. And then something happened in that hour where there was no contact with her and then somebody walked by, looked in the slit and saw it. But to be in that room was just a little breathtaking from the moment of fact that she was there by herself during those last moments.
[Lemon:] Ryan Young, I appreciate your reporting. Joining me now is Sandra Bland's family, Pastor Reverend James Miller, a senior pastor at DuPage AME Church. Thank you. Our condolences to you and to the family, sir. I appreciate you joining us tonight.
[James Miller, Dupage Ame Church Senior Pastor:] Thank you, Don.
[Lemon:] Thank you. What is your reaction to this dash cam video this footage that was just released tonight?
[Miller:] Well, I haven't seen it. I listened to it. And I'll just tell you, for knowing Sandra since she was 9 years old, growing up through the youth departments, one of the active young adults in our church who I just saw the fourth Sunday in June. And to know her family and to hear her in pain from that arrest was difficult.
[Lemon:] OK. So, let's talk about it because you know her. You're a man of candor, I can tell here. So, what do you think? Because people say there were things going on with her that she was going through some things. But we don't know. What was happening in her life? Was there anything that was happening in her life that would lend to her taking her own life inside of this cell?
[Miller:] Don, I knew her to be a mature person. A person who is always thinking reconciliation with others. I think her blogs and her videos on her Facebook page will give us clear characterization that she was strong willed and outspoken. But she was a Christian woman. And to have a new job with a new beginning and finishing a graduate degree, a new start on the one hand, and an arrest that has been designated out of compliance, a jail out of compliance, staff out of compliance and a sheriff who was out of compliance several years ago with a record that doesn't add up.
[Lemon:] Well, let's look at one of the videos that you mentioned from her Facebook page, from social media page. This is March 1st of this year.
[Bland:] I am suffering from something that some of you all may be dealing with right now. It's a little bit of depression as well as PTSD. Depression and post-traumatic stress disorder are things that affect everyone. Black, white, it does not matter. We all deal with them.
[Lemon:] So, what do you think, reverend? What happened? Was this enough do you think that she was dealing with that caused this?
[Miller:] Well, that is out of context, first, because that's a part of a clip of a presentation.
[Lemon:] It's not the whole thing.
[Miller:] It's not the whole thing.
[Lemon:] We have to look at it in context of the whole thing. Go ahead, explain.
[Miller:] Yes. And, yes. There's no doctor's diagnosis. No medication. A young person. PTSD, how much you know, it sounds, you know, interesting to hear, but she didn't blog for a few days. I think there's a lot of that depression going on that I don't...
[Lemon:] Do you think it was just normal people going through some things? Everybody goes through things, because she wasn't diagnosed with clinical depression. That was just her terminology, that was not a medical doctors or a psychiatrist's terminology or correct?
[Miller:] You know, that that's what to my knowledge, yes.
[Lemon:] Yes. So, what reverend, what do you think and what does the family think happened inside of that cell?
[Miller:] Well, I tell you. The investigation has been taken from the beginning because you just don't give a conclusion before you had. And then so now, it's turned into this treated like a murder investigation with the forensics that we haven't touched the room much since we, you know, I just what happened is that she died in custody. And the persons who have custody have some responsibility. I would think.
[Lemon:] Because she died under their she was under their care, so to speak, and she died while she was in custody with them. I have to run, pastor. But how is the family? And how are they doing and what are they saying?
[Miller:] That's a strong family. It has a lot of faith and they are just want answers and we all just want to know the truth of the situation. And not the truth that will support our opinion or our side.
[Lemon:] Yes. Reverend Dr. James Miller, I appreciate your time. And again, our condolences to you and the family. Thank you.
[Miller:] Thank you, Don.
[Lemon:] Thank you very much. We've got a lot more to come on this case. When we come right back, will Sandra Bland's death suicide? And what happened during the three days she was in police custody. Plus, Donald Trump surging in the polls and taking on his rivals. I'm going to talk to some of his supporters who think Trump's tough talk is just what the country needs right now.