Amid speculation the
28-year-old's body was placed on the jail's floor so a mugshot could be taken,
the CCTV footage also shows Ms Bland standing up for the photograph.
In a bid to quash online
rumours that she died before arriving, several hours of video footage showing
Sandra Bland alive in jail have been released by officials in Texas.
The unedited recording
shows Ms Bland - who was found hanged in her cell following an apparent suicide
on 13 July - speaking to a jail worker and making a phone call.
Ms Bland, a black woman,
was arrested on 10 July for a minor traffic offence and her death in custody
has led activists to claim it is another example of police brutality against
minorities.
Judge Trey Duhon has
confirmed several Waller County officials have received death threats over the
case, and the FBI is investigating the most serious.
She was taken into custody
after the incident escalated, and was facing allegations that she had kicked
the state trooper in the shin.
Earlier this week, Houston
station KTRK-TV released a voicemail that Ms Bland left a friend while in jail,
in which she calmly expressed her frustration.
In the message, she said
she is "still just at a loss for words honestly at this whole
process".
She added: "How did
switching lanes with no signal turn into all of this?"
On Monday, an initial
toxicology report was released, which suggested that Ms Bland had "a
substantial amount of marijuana in her system".
The county's sheriff has
also confirmed that Ms Bland was not placed on suicide watch despite her
telling them she had previously tried to take her own life with pills after losing
a baby.
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