over for not signaling a lane change--something innumerable (white) people do all the time without being pulled over. I follow traffic laws much more meticulously than most and never have been pulled over in my 50 years of driving, but even I have occasionally forgotten to signal--rarely, but not never.
Then the cops make her get out of the car. Why? That is not normal. They don't make you exit the car for a minor traffic violation, and they *certainly* don't rough you up, slam you to the ground, and handcuff you and arrest you for failing to signal a lane change--if you are white. If you are black, you might get shot for not wearing a seatbelt and then trying to get your wallet to show the ID the cop with the gun demands. (Of course, in *that* case you don't need to wonder why the cop had his gun drawn and was shouting demands at a young man who had failed to wear a seatbelt. That's SOP when these cowardly cops approach a black man for any reason.)
In the video she asks them why they are being so rough with her. The answer is obvious. And arresting her for assaulting a cop? Well, they charged that guy in Ferguson for assault and damage to PD property just because he bled on their uniforms when they beat him bloody.
Now, considering the bizarre behavior of the cops toward her, cops whose boss had been fired before for running a brutally racist PD, plus the fact that she was happy and excited about her new job, do we really believe she would commit suicide over a traffic violation?
Also, she was apparently known as a civil rights activist who protested against police brutality.
My guess is that while beating her up, they let their pumped up adrenaline cloud their minds enough to accidentally kill her, then staged a suicide to cover it up. Then their medical examiner, who works closely with the PD, just as the DAs who never charge murdering cops do, provided a cause of death finding that hid the real cause of death. They are so used to doing these things and never suffering any penalty for their brutality that it never occurred to them that they might get exposed--and they still have good reason to believe that a paid vacation will be the "worst" consequence for abusing and killing a young black woman. Also, this sort of beating, killing, and covering up is so common, especially when the victim is black, that the unlikely suicide story is ridiculously unbelievable.
The beating + homicide version is far more plausible than the out-of-the-blue suicide over a traffic stop, especially since she never was given her one phone call, which would have prevented her from spending 3 days in jail. I bet she died that first day, but they needed a couple of more days to cover their tracks and cook up their story.
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