Sandra Bland Tried to Bail Herself Out Just Before Her Death in Police Custody: Bondsman

[KamaAina]

http://mic.com/articles/122448/sandra-bland-tried-to-bail-herself-out-just-before-her-death-in-police-custody-bondsman

In a continuing plot twist surrounding the suspicious death of Sandra Bland in police custody on Monday, a local bail bondsman is now claiming the 28-year-old reached out to him in an attempt to post bail just before her alleged suicide.

"I talked to her when she first went to jail," Texas bondsman Joe Booker told the Daily Beast. "I called her mother for her." Bland's bail was set for $5,000, according to the local Waller County Sheriff's Office....

The reported bail attempt was only the latest in the string of suspicious revelations surroundings Bland's death that have led many to doubt the official police version of events. On Thursday, Daily Kos reported that the sheriff of Waller County, Glenn Smith, had been suspended and then fired from his previous job as Hempstead, Texas, police chief in 2008 after allegations of racism from local residents.

Bland's family has disputed the suicide claim. Family attorney Cannon Lambert told reporters at a news conference Thursday that relatives thought "she was killed," the Chicago Tribune reports. Bland also maintained a vibrant Facebook page (now apparently locked down) and a Twitter account that mixed a passion for social justice with a litany of smiling photos. Bland's sister Sharon Cooper told the Chicago Tribune that Bland had not been suicidal and called the idea "unfathomable."

[Iggo]

1. Fucking cops.

Buncha murdering assholes.

[Ghost in the Machine]

2. What you said..... +1000! n/t

[artislife]

8. ^^ this nt

[samsingh]

13. kick and recommend

[Greybnk48]

3. That girl was murdered, plain and simple.

I hope the autopsies show clearly she did not hang herself.

[lapfog_1]

4. Pretty sure it will show that she hung to death

but it won't show if it was suicide or murder.

Proving this to be murder is going to be hard... but all of the circumstantial evidence (raciest cop, BLM activist, confrontation at arrest for very minor traffic infraction, attempting to post bail, and a new job doing what she wanted to do at her alma mater) all points to murder.

[Travis_0004]

11. Ive read that there are videos of the hallway showing that nobody entered her cell

So it could be ruled a suicide depending on what the video actually shows. The FBI is doing forensic analysis on the video to see if it was edited at any point.

[mucifer]

18. So you think the videos won't disappear? That's what happened in Chicago in a similar situation:

http://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/laquan-mcdonald-investigation-305105631.html

Chicago police officers deleted footage from a security camera at a Burger King restaurant located fewer than 100 yards from where 17-year old Laquan McDonald was shot and killed, according to a Chicago-area district manager for the food chain.

McDonald was shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer on the night of October 20, 2014. Nine of the shots struck McDonald in the back, according to the Medical Examiners report.

The 86-minutes of missing video runs from 9:13 p.m. to 10:39 p.m., according to the lawyers for McDonald’s family. He was shot at approximately 9:50 p.m.

The Burger King sits at 40th and Pulaski and has a series of outside security cameras. On the night of the shooting, McDonald was trailed by Chicago police officers through the Burger King parking lot after a call about a man with a knife, according to attorneys for the McDonald family.

It's no different than Texas here in Chicago

[samsingh]

14. i think that as well

[Henryville]

16. Based on what?

[SidDithers]

5. Stephen Biko comes to mind...nt

Sid

[msongs]

6. sounds like a case for the Feds eh? Hello, D.C., you're wanted in Texas nt

[Maedhros]

7. Where is the U.S. Department of Justice on this?

We need a federal civil rights investigation into this atrocity.

[Laffy Kat]

9. The other day I re-watched "Mississippi Burning" and cried, again.

I realize the movie was a Hollywood-ized version of what happened, but it was still incredibly poignant. We cannot allow these atrocities to continue. What can I do on a personal level? I feel helpless.

[bettyellen]

10. Apparently they are releasing dash cam footage very soon.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

12. Trying to make good her escape, no doubt.

[Vinca]

15. I'm betting the independent autopsy shows she died from a concussion

and when they found her dead they made it look like a suicide. They should be able to tell whether she was dead or alive when hung. And this was all over a fucking turn signal.

[AwakeAtLast]

17. There needs to be a moratorium

on every police department in every town. I'm not kidding. If the PD needs to be cleaned out ,so be it.

It should be done by the Feds, not locals.