Sandra Bland was stopped Friday by authorities in Waller County, Texas for a traffic violation. In a video of her arrest, while being forcibly held face down, Ms. Bland can clearly be heard saying to the officer, “You just slammed my head into the ground. Do you not even care about that?” As she’s being picked up off the ground and placed into the police vehicle, Ms. Bland can be heard again, this time thanking the person recording the video, saying, “Thank you for recording.”
Bland was arrested and booked on
“assault of a public servant” charges.
A police statement says the following Monday morning Ms. Bland was released on a $5,000 bond, and was subsequently “found dead” by a female jailer who was “worried” about her recreation time.
Waller County Sheriff Glenn Smith claims this was a case of self-inflicted asphyxiation. An autopsy performed Tuesday showed Bland’s death “has been classified as a suicide, with the cause of death (listed as) hanging,” according to Tricia Bentley, a spokeswoman for the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences in Houston.
Hanged. Suicide. A young 28-year old woman who was moving to Texas to begin working her dream job suddenly decided to commit suicide, supposedly because of a small traffic infraction?
Ms. Bland’s friends and family feel that the police’s story doesn’t add up. For one thing, the odd quickness with which everything seemed to escalate seems off. In a matter of 72 hours Bland went from being pulled over for a minor traffic violation, to being arrested for assaulting a cop, and then to killing herself, according to the police’s story. There’s also the fact that Bland is black, and Waller county has a history of discriminatory law enforcement behavior.
You speak from emotions. You speak from fear and pain. Who hurt you? You sound like a insecure little boy.
You are a troll. You post no significant content. And when you do No one cares. To be irrelevant in life and even in your imaginary life is a true loss. You are a cyber leach who tries to get attention by commenting on someone else’s post with some lame juvenile comment.
You would never talk to A Black Men like that in real life. You wouldn’t talk to any women like that in real life. You aren’t built like that.
You are a threat to no one and no one cares about you or your philosophies. But I’m gonna give you life. I’ll let people know you exist. Cuz that’s all that you really want is to know that you matter and that some how you made an impact. You’re not worthy but Enjoy. I give you life. You’re welcome.
I’ll let your statements speak to the masses as a representation of you and what you stand for…
Damn
This is the most amazing response I’ve ever witnessed
my guy spoke to him like thanos. I’m confused tho, how you breathe life into someone while simultaneously snatching it from them.
White people made the growing up white hashtag in retaliation to a hashtag that had NOTHING to do with them or race in general.
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Every time black people make something fun and carefree on social media talking about our culture and race, white people get offended and say stuff like “It’ll be racist if we did it” . They hate knowing that they’re not included in everything. I’m glad they acknowledge racism exists with them being the origin though.
I don’t even understand why white people would be offended when the growingupblack tag had NOTHING to do with them?
being called “racist” isn’t simply an insult or something mean that people are saying to you because they want to bring you down. if you’re being called racist you shouldn’t be brushing it off because you “can’t see the haters” you should be assessing your behaviour, your language, and mindset for signs of prejudice, discrimination, and sympathy/support for unfair and violent treatment towards racially persecuted people in your country
This person’s art is all I need in life. ADORABLE not super fetishy cute art of trans women? Seriously makes me wanna cry tears of joy. I never see girls like me in cutesy art. This is everything.
I am interested in people who swim in the deep end. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. I’m tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends. Life is crunchy and complicated and all the more delicious.
