I can see a plastic bag being used for strangling someone. It's been done before, but hanging ones self? Hard to believe.
The cop was out of control. Failure to signal a lane change? How often does that happen?

If you watch the video her rights were violated when she was ordered AT GUN POINT to exit her vehicle without being charged with a crime.

She disobeyed a simple stop sign, a traffic infraction. She should NEVER have been hassled or harassed in the first place..... black, white, or purple with polka dots!

https://youtu.be/FiE-_tQzRtQ/

Released 7 hrs ago. A quick review of the traffic stop, by 2 cameras, a more in-depth look of the tape that appears altered.. And we can hear more of what she was saying. And a statement made by the officer later.

17 hours ago

http://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/07/22/the-sandra-bland-breakthrough/

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The Sandra Bland Breakthrough

It’s not just black men who matter.

By MAURA EWING

On July 14, an 18-year-old black woman was found dead in a jail cell in Homewood, Ala. Her name was Kindra Darnell Chapman. She was arrested three hours earlier and charged with stealing a cellphone. Authorities say it was death by asphyxiation, claiming that she hanged herself with a bedsheet.Last August, five days after Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Mo., Michelle Cusseaux, 50, was killed by a policeman in Phoenix, Ariz. Officers had been called to her home to take her to a mental health facility; she suffered from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression, according to her mother. Cusseaux resisted one of the officers, allegedly threatening him with a hammer. He shot her dead. Their lives, and their deaths, went largely unnoticed at the time. But now there is the case of Sandra Bland, who has become the public face of a largely male province: #blacklivesmatter. For more than a year, that Twitter hashtag and the wider media had been focused on the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, and other men and boys.Bland’s arrest on July 10, and her death in a Texas jail cell three days later, changed all that. It elevated black women to the status of black men in protests against police brutality. Several factors figured in how this happened, and why. Like the video in the Eric Garner chokehold case in New York, the amount of footage in the Bland case helped fuel attention: the police dashboard camera, the violent arrest taped by a bystander, and the question of what might not have been caught on tape. And the main question: What really happened in cell 95, where she was found hanged?Bland herself had an active role in the social media movement against police brutality, and her posts and videos, still circulating on the internet, continue to resonate. One 30-second video comes across as part online diary, part rallying cry. She appears to be sitting on a bed, curlers in her hair, talking to her camera phone. “This phone, this phone that I’m holding in my hand, it is quite powerful. Social media is quite powerful. We can do something with this,” she says, then looks directly at the camera. “If we want to change, we can really truly make it happen.” DeRay McKesson, a frequent online voice and founder of the online newsletter, “This Is the Movement,” said Bland’s voice was crucial in her becoming a focal point for change after her death.“It humanized her,” McKesson says. “We did not have to worry about the media humanizing her because she humanized herself for us, and we just got to replay it.”What’s more, Bland’s personal narrative has made her someone that mainstream America can easily relate to. “This was a middle-class woman, someone who was on her way to get her job,” says Heather Ann Thompson, a professor of history at the University of Michigan. “It underscored the point that it doesn’t matter if you’re ‘respectable,’ that anyone is a potential victim of this,” she says. On July 15, Shaun King, a justice writer for the Daily Kos, tweeted, “This is #SandraBland, Interviewed for college job. Got it, Pulled over by police. Traffic violation. Arrested. Dead,” with photos of her.It was retweeted 16,000 times. “There are always these false narratives that if you go to college, you get a nice job, police brutality won’t affect you in any way,” King says. “She goes against the stereotype that a lot of people advance.”Although the general public has been slow to take up the cause of black women as victims of police abuse, that seems to be changing. “There has been a slow drumbeat to say the name of black women who have been killed by the police,” says Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, director of the African American Policy Forum at Columbia University. Crenshaw co-wrote the report Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women, which documents the stories of dozens of black women who have been killed by police. The police have killed six unarmed women already in 2015, according to The Guardian, which has been maintaining a database, compared to 50 unarmed black men. But to get a full picture of police violence against black women is difficult because little independent documentation exists. The Say Her Name report relies largely on media accounts. “As long as the media is not covering stories involving women, that’s where the gaps are in the data,” says Andrea Ritchie, an attorney and the report's author. The anecdotal evidence gathered in the Say Her Name report — the most comprehensive available — asserts that black women are victimized by law enforcement for the same reasons that men are: racial profiling and traffic stops in the name of the war on drugs. There are also gender-specific forms of violence that are much less talked about. These include unlawful searches during enforcement of anti-prostitution laws, excessive force against pregnant women, and police responses to domestic-violence calls.Sexual harassment and sexual abuse are pervasive, under documented forms of police abuse, Ritchie says. In 2010, the most recent numbers available, sexual misconduct was the second most common allegation against police officers following excessive force, according to the Cato Institute’s National Police Misconduct Reporting Project. And, like other data collected on police violence, this project relied on media reports. The Say Her Name report was released to coincide with a national day of action in May. In cities around the country, protesters marched to demand justice for black women killed or abused by the police. Less than two months later, Sandra Bland would leave her home in Illinois to drive to the new job at her alma mater near Houston. In the weeks and months before her trip and before the May rally, she had the plight of black women continually on her mind.In the square reserved for her Facebook picture, she wrote: “Now legalize being Black in America.” And in April, she posted the following to her Instagram account: “AT FIRST THEY USED A NOOSE, NOW ALL THEY DO IS SHOOT #BlackLivesMatter #SandySpeaks.In the last week or so, the hashtag #SayHerName has been more active again. It is frequently used alongside #SandraBland. A previous version of this story misidentified Heather Ann Thompson. She is a professor of history at the University of Michigan

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Sandra Bland's voicemail from jail: 'I'm still just at a loss'

Sandra Bland said that she couldn't believe what she was going through in a haunting voicemail that she left for one of her friends while she was being held in jail.

"I'm still just at a loss for words honestly at this whole process," she said on the message obtained by ABC News owned station KTRK and confirmed by a local judge. "How did switching lanes with no signal turn into all of this, I don't even know."

The voicemail message lasted for about 22 seconds and was made after she had an initial court appearance in Texas following her July 10 arrest.

She said that she "able to see the judge" and her bail was set at $5,000 during the July 11 appearance.
This call was one of three that Bland made Saturday afternoon after she appeared in court, Waller County Judge Trey Duhon, told ABC News. Bland called the friend, her sister and a bail bondsman that afternoon, Duhon said.

Bland had just moved to Hempstead, Texas and stayed at the friend's house the night before the arrest.

Her sister, Sharon Cooper, confirmed this afternoon that they have been told that Bland had a court hearing between her arrest and the morning of July 13 when she was found hanging dead in her cell.

Another cowardly cop. How convenient that the dashcam, one of the police vehicles important apparatus is allegedly malfunctioning.

Bullcrap.

This is really sad. The cop at the least should be fired, he was out of control. Why was she in jail for 3 days? No one could bail her out?
Said she was dead for several hours before they found her. Things like this should never happen.


hi moe

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/23/dashboard-video-shows-how-sandra-bland-traffic-stop-escalated/

No evidence to suggest Sandra Bland death not a suicide: prosecutor
Published July 23, 2015
FoxNews.com


The lead prosecutor investigating the death of a woman in a Texas jail cell said Thursday autopsy results revealed no evidence to suggest that her death was not a suicide.

Warren Diepraam, Assistant District Attorney of Waller County, released additional details of the autopsy of 28-year-old Sandra Bland, who was found hanging in her jail cell on July 13.

Diepraam said the autopsy conducted by the Harris County medical examiner showed Bland had marks around her neck that were consistent with injuries in a suicide.

He added that there were “no defensive injuries” on Blands’ hands, and that lacerations on her wrists were consistent with a struggle while behind handcuffed by officers.

Diepraam added that preliminary test results showed Bland had marijuana in her system, but full toxicology results were expected to be released Friday.

The district attorney of Waller County, Ethon Mathis, told reporters in a news conference Thursday he understands why the incident has attracted national attention, but that the investigation is ongoing.

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“The goal of my office is to seek justice,” said Mathis. “However, the investigation is ongoing. In real life, in real time, things take time.”

Bland was arrested July 10 and was found dead three days later. Her family has disputed the medical examiner’s report that her death was a suicide by hanging. Texas Rangers and the FBI have launched an investigation into the incident.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The autopsy report is out. I haven't seen it yet but it is supposed to be on the news tonight and may not back up the police's story.

,, well , there you go, it was the marijuana

made her aggressive, and then suicidal,,,,makes perfect sense,,,

Actually I did hear it on the news earlier.. They said it was a suicide. But was being further investigated due to she had marijuana in her system and to see if there was other drugs in her system at the time. And that she had most likely attempted suicide prior. She had at least 30 cuts across her wrist that had already healed.. and more marks on her back they are not sure if they were self inflicted or not they were in the healing stage as well..

But according to what the rules are for suicide watch, they had not been followed correctly.. And they are still pretty much saying that the arrest did not follow protocol...

Yea, the arrest was horrible. The cop blew it.
She needed help and was put into a traumatic situation. Sad.

Exactly, all started cause the cop got pissed off cause she would not put her cigarette out. It is a shame that one small thing lead to her death.

She had attempted suicide either last year or the year before after loosing a baby. And seems she had recently as well.. She seriously needed help..

Being arrested pushed her to the the limit.. sad~~

BTW, I like your haircut and new pic.

And yet, there's absolutely no evidence to support your claim, in this case.

My ' not entirely unheard of ' statement above, is a vauge disclaimer like yours.
However, I do think it is possible, she was murdered. But... I also think it is possible, this entire suicide/homicide drama. Is just that, a DRAMA... a possible hoax and/ or false flag.
Which is why, I made the thread & now updating it.

I week ago- Sandra's mom winks at All Sharpton

https://youtu.be/d690NaCB3hQl /

Personnel file into the trooper

http://abc13.com/news/personnel-file-gives-insight-on-trooper-in-sandra-bland-arrest/896828/

Boss has officer had reason to pull her over

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/01/texas-state-trooper-sandra-bland-arrest-warning-2014/

Alive in the mugshot

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7900440/

Autopsy says suicide.

is that the autopsy signed by the District Attorneys wife,,? who happens to be the assistant medical examiner who signed...