I was glad that Sandra's mother came to the DNC and I was very moved by all those mothers who lost their children.
Such strength. More heroes.

jail?

that leaves the country intact.

It is just too much a part and parcel of us all.

did, they are going to jail. Not saying it is right. That's just the way it is. Doesn't matter if the driver is white or black or if the cop is white or black. It would only matter if the driver were politically connected.

denying of the existence of racism and blaming minorities. If I'd paid attention to the username, I wouldn't have bothered responding in the first place.

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I do know that during Katrina a awful lot of unarmed black people were murdered by white cops vs the other way around........so it makes me doubt your "doesn't matter.....whether cop.....or victim....is black or white" statement.

before you call BS.

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met a few every month during my PT job.........;

made my statement on whether they agreed or disagreed.........I have had extended talks .....conversations....New Orleans is racist among many others in the south, west, north and eastern section of this country. Cities close to me here in the midwest are racist as hell......still in 2016

years of black mayors, they currently have a white mayor but I haven't seen any signs that he is a racist. He was elected with black support. 58% of New Orleans cops are black, and that kind of diversity is up and down the chain of command. The city council, school board, and state representatives are majority black as is the US Congressman.

So you're position is that these majority black officials are racist against their own race or would put up with and enable a non black minority of racist officials.

C'mon. Put the hate away and think logically.

by a black man.....man of color as it were.....and in the last 7+ years the uptick in racist murders, extra judicial executions by police officers, racist incidents, membership growth in white supremacist groups that is unprecedented in these modern times. I understand how you can pick factors to prove your point, I have one to prove my point. Is the police department of New Orleans majority black? I read that that New Orlean is among the most racially balaned police departments in the nation. Yet in 2012 the Justice Department "FOUND THAT IT DISCRIMINATED AGAINST AFRICAN-AMERICANS". There are similar concerns among Hispanic activists.

So while your glowing report on Mayors, City Councils and School Boards are fine and well, they are not carrying deadly weapons as part of their job.

Look pride in ones city is one thing, naivete concerning social issues that result in murder of innocent, unarmed people is another.

racial makeup of New Orleans officials. New Orleans has been rife with official corruption for a long time, which is nothing to be proud of.
Both in politics and law enforcement.

I am not picking factors. Blacks hold the political power in New Orleans and 58% of the cops are black. Why would they be racist against blacks or tolerate a minority of non black officials who are racist?

Whatever you found would have to be good enough to disprove all the evidence that she killed herself as well.

How, exactly, does that happen without the complicity of her jailers, when she has been in jail for three days? And they falsified the logs? And video shows no one other than her jailers in contact with her?

Even if she did kill herself, could the treatment she received (after all, she was essentially jailed for not using a turn signal when she changed lanes to make way for a police car with lights coming up behind her) or her intoxication (which occurred AFTER she was locked up) have been contributing factors?

It will be tough, indeed, but surely the authorities have some level of responsibility here. Civil law has less of a burden re reasonable doubt than criminal law. Perhaps that is the path to accountability.

... but there is no hard evidence for it other than an elevated THC count.

More likely caused by regular and recent use of marijuana. Also, the levels can change after death (especially in women who often have a higher body fat percentage).

Interesting article here. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/us/sandra-bland-toxicology-report.html

turn signal. The cop also escalated the situation and he was fired for it. And rightfully so. Cops are supposed to be trained to de-escalate those situations. Still, a sure way to go to jail for a turn signal violation is to act like she did. They were both at fault for escalating the situation until it got out of hand. The cop got fired and she went to jail.

Do you think the jailers forcefully made her inject marijuana so she would go schizophrenic and hang herself. Interesting theory.

The cop who pulled her over profiled her and the arrested her on a bullshit assault charge because she wasn't sufficiently deferential and talked back.

Some "routine."

something else physical. If it was just verbal I don't see how she could have been charged with assault.

It does look like she may have been profiled. That may be part of the reason the cop was fired.

of the pain and he claimed that she was trying to elbow him in the face. Of course, there was no video of the alleged assault because he conveniently had her march out of the view of the dashcam to the shoulder of the road before pushing her down and cuffing her.

On the audio of the dashcam footage of the traffic stop, you can hear the arresting officer initially claim that she was cuffed for resisting arrest before correcting himself and claiming that he was assaulted when talking the other officers that responded to the scene.

Encinia, the arresting officer, was indicted for perjuring himself in front of the grand jury regarding his account of why he pulled Bland out of her car. If he was lying about his reason for initiating physical force. There's no reason to believe that he wouldn't have put a bullshit charge on her.

I hate to break this to you, but cops routinely put bogus charges on people who "disrespect" them. It's called bringing somebody in "on a humble." For an extreme example of this phenomenon, look up what the NYPD did to pro basketball player Thabo Sefolosha, who was arrested, prosecuted and acquitted of charges of assaulting police officers and obstruction of justice after he had his leg broken by a group of cops because he called one a "midget."

You're not breaking anything to me. As I noted in another reply, it is well known by people in New Orleans that if you treat a cop like Sandra did, you are going to jail. Doesn't matter if you are white or black or if the cop is white or black. It only matters if you have connections or not.

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WAS NOT in new orleans. DISTRACTION, DISPERSION AND BS. Period.Seems like a lot of people with hispanic soundibng surnames are involved in a lot of these murders and shootings of unarmed AA lately.

just a personal observation based on names, nothing else. Zimmerman was not hispanic sounding, yet he is hispanic and light enough to be viewed as he is. Go try try to trip up others, no go here.....just observations of all involed including some here......

I will never assume anything in this day and age. You have a good day....

My kids are Hispanic so you touched a nerve. I think they call it a trigger these days. I haven't seen any information that Zimmerman killed Martin because Zimmerman is Hispanic so I don't know why you would bring that up. That's the kind of thing racists do.

because zimmerman was hispanic he killed Trayvon Martin....nice try though....I plan on having a good day, thank you.

From the article: "The only person who has been indicted by a grand jury investigating Bland's death is former state trooper Brian Encinia, who was charged with misdemeanor perjury after video from his patrol car contradicted his claims that Bland assaulted him without provocation".

agitated citizen or how to de-escalate the situation like he is supposed to do.