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Sandra Annette Bland was a 28-year-old African-American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015, three days after being arrested during a traffic stop. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Officials found her death to be a suicide .
After the 28-year-old questioned his instruction to put out her cigarette and refused to get out of the car, the trooper arrested her for assault of an officer. Bland didn’t have enough money for the $500 bail bondsman’s fee, and so she was held in jail. Within 65 hours of her arrest, she was dead.
About 4,000 people die each year while in a county jail or a state prison, according to data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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Encinia, who arrested 28-year-old Sandra Bland in July, was indicted by the grand jury in Waller County, outside of Houston, in January. Texas trooper fired for traffic stop of woman who later ...
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The dashboard video camera of a traffic stop in Texas of a black woman later found hanging dead in her jail cell was not edited but efforts are being made to repost it, Texas officials said on ...
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