Bland’s family challenges the suicide ruling.
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Dash cam footage released a week later showed Bland, who was black, refusing to get out of her vehicle before Encinia held a stun gun and yelled at her: “Get out of the auto!”
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“We have absolutely no confidence in what we believe is a sham proceeding”, said one of their lawyers, Larry Rogers. In her lawsuit, Reed-Veal also contends that Encinia falsified the assault allegation to take Bland into custody and that jail personnel failed to keep her daughter safe.
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Encinia, who is white, has been on administrative duty since her death.
“We’re not even sure that the plastic bag was fingerprinted”, said Bland’s family’s attorney Cannon Lambert.
After the hearing, that lasted a little more than an hour, Judge Hittner set a trial date for January 23, 2017, as it relates to the lawsuit filed by the family of Sandra Bland.
Bland’s mother has filed a wrongful death suit claiming the Texas state trooper who pulled Bland over used inappropriate force, and jailers didn’t react to her “bouts of uncontrollable crying”.
Grand jurors considered evidence collected by five special prosecutors named by the county’s district attorney. Dashboard video of the subsequent encounter between Bland and Texas state trooper Brian Encina showed an initially normal encounter quickly turn acrimonious after Mr. Encina asked Bland to put out her cigarette and she refused.
The confrontation continues off camera where Bland said she can’t feel her arm and the officer says she kicked him, according to audio from the tape.
But there are multiple other instances throughout Bland’s case where strong arguments can be made that the law was broken-beginning with the traffic stop that landed her in jail in the first place.
“All charges are under consideration”, he said, declining to elaborate. Attorney Larry Rogers acknowledged grand juries usually meet in secret, but said the process “screams of a cover-up”. An expert review of jail procedures conducted after three suicides in 2014 highlighted deficiencies in staff training and screening procedures around identifying inmates who may be in need of mental health care.
The grand jury’s decision prompted a response from at least one presidential candidate.
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The lack of an indictment led to Sandra Bland being the top trending topic on Twitter in the United States. “There’s no doubt in my mind that she, like too many African-Americans who die in police custody, would be alive today if she were a white woman”, Mr Sanders wrote in a statement. “How many more Black and Latino people have to die before we make fundamental change in police recruitment and training, and overhaul a justice system that is permitting police brutality with impunity?”
