So many questions on what happened to Sandra Bland

[ellennelle]

20. additional questions

one, why was she in a cell by herself, and without observation, if she had mentioned she had been suicidal? and why was she placed in a cell by herself when three women were sharing the one across from her?

if the autopsy shows she had wrist cuts (which that other inmate had noted, as well), and that they had scabbed, this datum requires serious attention, as i don't think any wounds would heal after her death. in other words, she may well have killed herself. however, a good coroner can tell the difference between these details.

but let's say she did commit suicide, here's the thing. she was placed in that cell alone, and it looked to me for all the world like solitary confinement. for three days. for not signaling? technically, she was charged i think with something like resisting arrest, but there is no question this was punitive. what is the going bail rate for such things there? and does it differ for blacks and whites?

what i'm getting at is, those circumstances might be enough to send someone over the edge. she was not hearing back from anyone regarding her bail, she had no idea why she was still in jail, she'd missed her first day of work, her family was in chicago. and on and on. i wonder if she was being adequately fed. i wonder too - huge inflammatory speculation here - if she might have been sedated to make the incident look like suicide. or if she was drugged in her food. autopsy claims large consumption of cannabis?? when, in jail? did they not search her? how would they miss enough MJ to register on an autopsy as huge? would they not smell it? to circle back, if she was drugged in her food, in an attempt to 'justify' her treatment, and the volume was 'large' as the autopsy supposedly says, might that be enough to make her believe she was losing her mind, driving her to use the trash bag?

yep, too many questions here. one observation i have not seen anyone else make, but surely i'm not the only one who noticed when she got out of her car. she was a full foot taller than the wee little small puny officer who arrested her. ya gotta know that alone had to just piss the livin' crap out of the poor boy.

anyone reading this far, thx for indulging me; i'm just thinking 'out loud' here. but also check out the grio article someone posted on this site earlier today, as well as the horrifying story in the video column regarding caroline small from five years ago. it's not an epidemic; it's a firkin' conspiracy, apparently motivated by good ol' white boys who happen to feel they're 'supreme'.