Bland, a black 28-year-old, was found dead in a Texas jail on July 13.
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Transit Authority police say an officer used pepper spray on a crowd trying to prevent them from taking an intoxicated teenager to police headquarters. Bland’s gender and race mark her out as unique.
“Judge Trey Duhon says his county has come under cyberattack by people who suspect Bland was killed in custody”.
This committee will review evidence as it continues to be collected, all in an effort to help Mathis sort out the many moving parts of the case. There’s no other way around it. This video has not been altered or doctored in any way. The average annual suicide rate for white inmates between 2000 and 2012 was at least three times higher than the rate for black or Hispanic prisoners. Bland was an outspoken civil rights advocate.
“The county’s in growing pains”, Mathis said in an interview. They show her posing for a front and side mugshot, giving her fingerprints and sitting for hours in a jail cell. “Individuals that don’t have access to resources are confined and it has immediate consequences on mental health”, Alehashem said. “We are not funeralising a martyr or a victim, we are celebrating a hero”, said Reverend James Miller, who led the funeral service. Lynchings were once rampant in Waller County. Other clips show her appearing to wipe tears from her eyes.
That should have prompted jailers to contact a magistrate for a decision on whether to have her assessed by a mental health professional. Another possibility would have been that she was a consistent user of the drug that may have accumulated in her body.
Bland reportedly told jail staffers that she at one point in her life attempted suicide. He said there’s no recent history of drug seizures there but noted things get smuggled into jails everywhere.
The hours of video footage show Bland being booked into the Waller County jail.
The amount of THC, one of the active components of marijuana, in Bland’s system was 18 micrograms per liter, the report said. Prosecutor Warren Diepraam has said information on her marijuana use may be relevant to the case in determining her state of mind.
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw and a county sheriff who has been a critic of inadequate jail facilities were expected to testify at the Texas House Committee of County Affairs hearing.
The attorney representing Bland’s family didn’t immediately comment. “They just did their job”, Pyle said.
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She was “alive and well” at the time she was first booked, when she took her mugshot photo and when she saw the judge to learn about her $5,000 bond, Duhon said.
