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Sandra Annette Bland (February 7, 1987 – July 13, 2015) was from Naperville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and was one of five sisters.She attended Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Illinois and graduated in 2005, then Prairie View A&M University outside Hempstead in Waller County, Texas, where she was a member of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority.
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.
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 ...
One Year After Sandra Bland’s Death, #SayHerName Is As Important As Ever The Huffington Post Read article >> A former corrections officer talks about her frustration with the lack of mental health care in jails. The Huffington Post Read article >> Linda Spies’ son Jake was supposed to be on suicide watch, but still ended up dead.
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The family of Sandra Bland filed a lawsuit against a Texas trooper, a sheriff?s office and jailers, accusing them of being responsible for her death. Texas county says woman killed herself when no ...
One Year After Sandra Bland’s Death, #SayHerName Is As Important As Ever The Huffington Post Read article >> A former corrections officer talks about her frustration with the lack of mental health care in jails. The Huffington Post Read article >> Linda Spies’ son Jake was supposed to be on suicide watch, but still ended up dead.
The #SheWoke Committee. In response to the tragedy of Sandra Bland, the caucus was inspired and created by the #SheWoke Committee: Ifeoma Ike, Esq., Nakisha M. Lewis, Sharon Copper (sister of Sandra Bland), Tiffany Hightower, Shambulia Gadsden Sams, Sharisse "She-Salt" Stancil-Ashford, and Avis Jones-DeWeever, Ph.D. – seven leading black women activists and members of the "Divine 9's ...