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By now you have seen the disturbing footage of Sarah Bland’s arrest, where a police officer threatened her with a taser essentially because she didn’t want to put out a lit cigarette. On CNN, former NYPD detective Harry Houck said Bland was “arrogant from the very beginning.”

What video was he watching?

Reports Crooks & Liars:

“An officer does have the choice to bring anyone out of the vehicle when he stops them for his own safety,” Houck told CNN’s Don Lemon on Tuesday. “The whole thing here is that she was very arrogant from the beginning, very dismissive of the officer, alright?”

CNN political contributor Marc Lamont Hill pointed out that Bland did not have a legal responsibility to “kiss the officer’s butt.”

“She has a right to be irritated,” Hill said. “A lot of us get irritated when we get pulled over. This officer comes to her and says, ‘Is there something wrong? You seem like you have an attitude.’ He’s trying to pick a fight with her.”

“Sometimes police officers act as if you’re not completely kowtowing and deferential, that somehow you’re violating a law,” he continued. “This is a perfect example of how vulnerable black women are in public spaces to law enforcement.”

Watch the segment below.

Photo: YouTube