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pnwmom

(108,988 posts) Thu Jul 16, 2015, 01:40 PM Jul 2015

Listen to Sandra Bland, a young black college graduate who recently died in jail,

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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/

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Listen to Sandra Bland, a young black college graduate who recently died in jail, (Original Post) pnwmom Jul 2015 OP

This story is literally unbelievable. Comrade Grumpy Jul 2015 #1

... progressoid Jul 2015 #2

(REDACTED) DisgustipatedinCA Jul 2015 #3

Did she shoot herself in the back, too? KamaAina Jul 2015 #4

How did she get to where she'd commit suicide? Igel Jul 2015 #5

I doubt if a black college would fire one of its alums for a lane change violation pnwmom Jul 2015 #6

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

1. This story is literally unbelievable.

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Thu Jul 16, 2015, 02:04 PM

Jul 2015

Let me be more precise: I think somebody in law enforcement there is lying their asses off.

progressoid

(49,992 posts)

2. ...

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Thu Jul 16, 2015, 02:27 PM

Jul 2015

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)

3. (REDACTED)

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Thu Jul 16, 2015, 02:35 PM

Jul 2015

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)

4. Did she shoot herself in the back, too?

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Thu Jul 16, 2015, 02:53 PM

Jul 2015

Igel

(35,332 posts)

5. How did she get to where she'd commit suicide?

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Thu Jul 16, 2015, 03:25 PM

Jul 2015

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

(108,988 posts)

6. I doubt if a black college would fire one of its alums for a lane change violation