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JustAnotherGen

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3. I'd like to know what kind of trash bags they have in their jail cells first

Reply to peacebird (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 11:12 AM

Jul 2015

http://www.houstonpress.com/news/state-jail-commission-cites-waller-county-officials-after-investigating-sandra-blands-death-7599587

This Houston Press article says she hung herself with a plastic trash bag.

I'm not buying it.

Someone will be along any moment now to say - but she's a super human so it's entirely possible that an animal like that . . .

Still not buying it!

I'm also dying to know what this "traffic stop courtesy policy" entails. Like - you only use your fists when it's a black woman? You can't throw her on the ground? Waiting for the usual suspects to show up and 'splain why this was a good thing to have happened.

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Question: why would she hang herself? peacebird Jul 2015 #1

I'd like to know what kind of trash bags they have in their jail cells first JustAnotherGen Jul 2015 #3

Maybe--I thought of that possibility, too. But they would probably expect to get tblue37 Jul 2015 #14

At least we know that murdering her was a violation of procedure. Scuba Jul 2015 #2

Depends on their courtesy policy JustAnotherGen Jul 2015 #4

Pulled her out of the car because she had a cigarette? Downwinder Jul 2015 #7

Imagine if she had a bag of skittles or can of iced tea! JustAnotherGen Jul 2015 #8

I have seen some pretty rabid anti-smokers! Downwinder Jul 2015 #9

I like you! JustAnotherGen Jul 2015 #12

They have the camera footage from outside her cell madville Jul 2015 #5

Those camera images can be doctored. BillZBubb Jul 2015 #11

The last person to see somebody alive Downwinder Jul 2015 #16

Apparently others have considered that to be a possibility. tblue37 Jul 2015 #17

That is good news. BillZBubb Jul 2015 #19

That would be impressive madville Jul 2015 #20

You mean fucking with black people ain't policy? Iggo Jul 2015 #6

Let's see. Young, happy woman, excited to start her new job (she'd already been hired), gets pulled tblue37 Jul 2015 #10

I believe she did call someone from the jail. BillZBubb Jul 2015 #13

I hadn't seen that. But I still think they beat her so badly they ended up killing her and then tblue37 Jul 2015 #15

There is in-car video footage and audio madville Jul 2015 #21

Speechless. Thank god the FBI is involved. nt Romulox Jul 2015 #18