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Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland indicted for perjury Brian Encinia charged over statement put in his incident report following Bland’s arrest last July for allegedly assaulting him during a traffic stop Sandra Bland was found dead in her Texas jail cell after her arrest in July 2015. Photograph: AP The state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland, a black woman die in a south-east Texas county jail last summer, has been indicted by a Texas grand jury on a perjury charge. The charge results from a statement trooper Brian Encinia made after Bland’s arrest, said Darrell Jordan, a special prosecutor in the case. “In the probable cause statement he stated that he withdrew Sandra Bland from the car to further the traffic stop investigation. The jury did not believe that,” Jordan said. The charge is a class A misdemeanour punishable by up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine. A warrant will be issued for Encinia’s arrest. Following the announcement of the indictment, Encinia’s e

Bill Cosby will not be charged in two sexual assault allegations in LA County Prosecutors said there was insufficient evidence in one alleged assault and that the statute of limitations had run out in another involving the comedian Bill Cosby was released last Wednesday on $1m bail. Photograph: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office on Wednesday declined to press criminal charges against Bill Cosby related to two allegations of sexual assault. Prosecutors said that there was insufficient evidence in one alleged assault from 2008 and that the statute of limitations had run out in another case dating back to 1965. News of the prosecutors’ decision comes one week after a district attorney in Pennsylvania charged  the comedian with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman inside his home in 2004. Those charges constituted the first criminal case against Cosby, marking a stunning downfall for the 78-year-old comedian, who has faced accusations