After a grand jury refused to hand down indictments against police officers for the jailhouse death of Sandra Bland, finding she hanged herself in her cell, “social justice” activists and journalists refused to accept the finding. Officer Encinia was placed on administrative duty immediately after the video was released showing that he did not use proper protocol. Encinia later arrested Bland for battery, for allegedly kicking him. Bland’s death in the jail was ruled a suicide by a medical examiner. Because the investigation is shrouded in the secrecy of the grand jury, Bland’s family and supporters are left puzzled about what has been considered so far and what other aspects of the case the grand jury is supposedly going to take up in January.
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On Monday, the family’s attorney, Cannon Lambert, said the grand jury’s decision not to indict was consistent with a cover up by authorities. “We’re supposed to have an investigation to show us what’s happening”.
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Paul Looney is a Houston area lawyer who was appointed by the sheriff to select a commission to look into the jail procedures and other issues at the county. “There could be indictments”, said Darrell Jordan, one of the five special prosecutors handling the case.
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Bland’s mother, speaking at a press conference following the announcement, slammed the entire grand jury process for its failure to provide answers, if not justice.
Jurors met for the third time Monday to decide whether there was a case against the Waller County sheriff’s office in Bland’s death.
Jordan, citing the confidentiality of the grand jury system, would not say what those charges could be.
Another family attorney, Larry Rogers Jr., said Encinia should have faced charges “within days or weeks” of the incident and that he doesn’t understand why the grand jury would need more time to consider whether to indict the trooper. My thoughts are with her family and her loved ones tonight. In dashboard camera video that became yet another flashpoint in the national controversy over racial bias by police, Trooper Brian Encinia shouts at Bland for refusing to get out of the auto or put out her cigarette and threatens at one point to jolt her with his Taser.
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Officials previously concluded Bland’s autopsy showed no evidence of homicide.
