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in the custody of Texas police, supposedly by her own hand.
She was stopped for a "lane change violation" and the police claim that she kicked an officer before they threw her to the ground. Three days later she died alone in her cell, and the autopsy claims her death was self-inflicted.
There's a video of her speaking toward the end of the page. How did this strong, determined, confident woman end up killing herself?
http://heavy.com/news/2015/07/sandra-bland-dead-death-killed-waller-county-texas-illinois-woman-dies-jail-police-custody-job-hanging-traffic-stop-assault-police-officer-video-photos-cause-of-death-autopsy-facebook/
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Let me be more precise: I think somebody in law enforcement there is lying their asses off.
progressoid
(49,992 posts)DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)Redacted. That's all I can say anymore about these neverending stories of cop violence. If I said what I'd like to say, the locked post would be the least of my worries. So I'm left with the dissatisfying "redacted".
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Igel
(35,337 posts)Maybe she didn't.
Maybe she did and we'll get an answer. Or maybe not. But she was pretty much alone for over 2 days, and there's a good chance she assumed that she'd picked up and was mid-move for a new job at Prairie A&M (a HBCU) but would lose the job before she started.
If somebody went and tried to hang her, though, I'd assume there'd be forensic evidence of a struggle. It's not like she'd have easy access to anything for self-medicating and self-incapacitation that would allow her to be hanged with no struggle.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)and a scuffle with police.