Well, this is a sickeningly familiar story. Sandra Bland was starting a new job in Houston Texas as a student outreach coordinator at her alma mater Texas Prairie View A&M when she was stopped by Waller County Sheriffs for changing lanes without signaling.
Three days later she was found dead of "self-inflicted asphyxiation" in her jail cell.
Video shows Sandra's violent arrest have appeared on youtube, and questions from her family and others considering her outspoken activism in support of the #BlackLivesMatter movement have begun to raise question we shall address over the flip.
Sandra can be heard complaining to Officers as they hold their knee on the back of her neck.
“You just slammed my head into the ground,” Bland yells as she is being arrested. “Do you not even care about that? I can’t even hear!”
She was arrested for assaulting a police officer, according to news reports. Waller County Sheriff Glenn Smith claimed she “had been combative on the side of the road.”
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On Monday morning, jailers found her dead, and officials attributed it to self-inflicted asphyxiation.
“CPR was immediately started and Waller County EMS notified. She was pronounced deceased a short time later. In order to maintain the integrity of the investigation, the Texas Rangers were immediately notified to conduct the death investigation,” the sheriff’s department said in a statement.
But her friends and family aren't buying the official story.
Grieving friends and family of Sandra Bland want to know how the 28-year-old wound up dead in a Texas jail cell, and they don’t believe the story they’re being told by Waller County authorities.
“The Waller County Jail is trying to rule her death a suicide and Sandy would not have taken her own life,” LaNitra Dean, a long-time friend, told ABC 7 Chicago. “Sandy was strong. Strong mentally and spiritually.”
Sandra Bland in her own words as she describes how she deals with depression and PTSD in a hopefull, upbeat way, and reaches out to help inspire othersr to help them survive.
Whatever you're going through, whatever stress your'e having, whatever situation that you'e dealing with God will block it and you will be ok.
Not exactly the words of someone on the edge of suicide.