AUSTIN, Texas — As Trooper Brian Encinia angrily threatened her with a stun gun from just outside her car window, Sandra Bland recorded the encounter on her cellphone, shown in a newly released, ...

Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw acknowledged on Tuesday that officers are responsible for escalations that may occur during a stop or arrest, the Texas Tribune reports.

A Texas state trooper was charged with perjury on Wednesday for his conduct during a July traffic stop with a woman who was later found dead in her jail cell. A Houston grand jury indicted Trooper ...

A video showing a white Texas state trooper shouting "I will light you up" while pulling a black woman from her car brought national outrage, troubling the woman's family, the trooper's boss and, ...

Sandra Bland was a civil rights activist who openly challenged police mistreatment of Black Americans. On July 10, 2015, she was stopped after being followed by a Texas state trooper for a minor ...