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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.
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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 ...
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 ...
This April, Bland's mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, visited Washington, D.C., to deliver a speech at the Library of Congress. “By a show of hands,” she asked the audience, “can any of you tell me the other six women who died in jail in July 2015 along with Sandra Bland?” Nobody could. Those women are recorded here, along with hundreds of others.
Texas’ Largest Jail Hasn’t Learned Much From Sandra Bland’s Death The Huffington Post Read article >> This Stroke Victim Was Jailed For Smoking Pot And Couldn’t Afford $100 Bail. He Died In Custody. The Huffington Post Read article >> Sandra Bland’s Family Got A Settlement, But The Fight Isn’t Over The Huffington Post Read article >>
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.
Death of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old African American woman, in a jail cell in Texas in July 2015; Shooting of Samuel DuBose, a 43-year-old African American man, by a police officer in Ohio in July 2015; Death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American man, from injuries sustained during an arrest in Maryland in April 2015