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Sandra Bland 'would be alive if she were a white woman', Bernie Sanders says
Source: The Guardian
Sandra Bland 'would be alive if she were a white woman', Bernie Sanders says
Lauren Gambino in New York
Tuesday 22 December 2015 17.19 GMT
Sandra Bland, who was found hanged in her cell at a Texas county jail last summer, would not have died had she been white, senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont said after a grand jury declined to indict anyone in connection with her death.
“Sandra Bland should not have died while in police custody”, the Democratic presidential candidate said in a statement responding to the grand jury decision. “There’s no doubt in my mind that she, like too many African Americans who die in police custody, would be alive today if she were a white woman.
“My thoughts are with her family and her loved ones tonight. We need to reform a very broken criminal justice system”
Bland, 28, was arrested during a routine traffic stop that escalated into a confrontation. Police dashboard footage, released amid a roiling national debate over the treatment of black people by law enforcement, showed Bland arguing with state trooper Brian Encinia. She refused to get out of her car until Encinia pulled out a stun gun and shouted: “Get out of the car. I will light you up.”
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Lauren Gambino in New York
Tuesday 22 December 2015 17.19 GMT
Sandra Bland, who was found hanged in her cell at a Texas county jail last summer, would not have died had she been white, senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont said after a grand jury declined to indict anyone in connection with her death.
“Sandra Bland should not have died while in police custody”, the Democratic presidential candidate said in a statement responding to the grand jury decision. “There’s no doubt in my mind that she, like too many African Americans who die in police custody, would be alive today if she were a white woman.
“My thoughts are with her family and her loved ones tonight. We need to reform a very broken criminal justice system”
Bland, 28, was arrested during a routine traffic stop that escalated into a confrontation. Police dashboard footage, released amid a roiling national debate over the treatment of black people by law enforcement, showed Bland arguing with state trooper Brian Encinia. She refused to get out of her car until Encinia pulled out a stun gun and shouted: “Get out of the car. I will light you up.”
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/22/sandra-bland-would-be-alive-if-she-were-a-white-woman-says-bernie-sanders
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Their talk is cheap.
As randy said - we all already know this.
It's not like some kind of new knowledge that Saint Sanders is handing down. 
