Sandra Bland death ruled a suicide by hanging, Texas prosecutor says

[Igel]

32. Likely?

In the sense that a lot of prison/jail hangings are done that way, perhaps more than half, sure. Them's the stats.

In the sense that this woman committed suicide that way? Harder call.

Do you believe the intake report, where she said she'd tried to commit suicide by taking pills? Or the report she filled out saying she wasn't thinking of suicide at the time?

Do you believe the coroner's report of the wrist cuts?

Do you believe the video with her self-diagnosis?

Or the family, who said that she'd never do anything like this. But also says she didn't have epilepsy.

Even if Sandra Bland, on video, said she did and her intake reports are ambiguous: one worker said she was taking Keppra, but the form she filled out and signed said she was taking no medications.

The stories aren't lining up. Now, some discrepancies are to be expected; if none, I'd say there's some creative fiction at work. But this many also tells me something's wrong. I just don't know where the slippage in stories is--among the police or between Sandra and her family.