Jordan said jurors would reconvene in January to consider other aspects of the case, which may include actions taken by Encinia, who Texas public safety officials say violated policies of professionalism and courtesy in his encounter with Bland.
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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.
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But Jordan says Reed-Veal and her family declined to cooperate with the grand jury.
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Activists said the incident, which happened is another example of police brutality toward minorities following the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri which sparked widespread protests.
(CNN) – A Texas grand jury has decided not to indict anyone relating to the death of Sandra Bland, a case that raised questions of excessive police force and the role of race after she was found dead in a jail cell last summer.
The family is also frustrated because it can’t examine the findings of a Texas Rangers investigation into the death because the report is grand jury evidence, Lambert said.
Jordan also said the grand jury decided that no Waller County Jail employee would be charged.
The grand jury reached the decision that no felony crime was committed by the sheriff’s office or jailers after a closed-door hearing. Let’s be clear, though: “If Sandra Bland had been white, she never would have been arrested in the first place”. She was found dead in her cell three days later, hanged with a plastic garbage bag.
Last week, a judge in Houston set a trial date for 2017 for a wrongful death suit filed against Waller County.
Encinia, who in June completed a year-long probationary stint as a new trooper, has been on administrative duty since Bland’s death. Plus, other questions are hard not to ignore. The 28-year-old Chicago-area woman died in her Waller County jail cell in what the medical examiner determined was a suicide. According to booking documents, she had told jail officials that she had previously attempted suicide by taking pills after losing a baby, yet according to the official record, no one checked on her for 90 minutes before her death. “We are unfortunately disappointed by the fact that our suspicions regarding this sham of a process have come to fruition”, he said. He asked her to get out of the vehicle, she refused, and he tried to yank her out.
Sandra Bland’s mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, said she wants to see all the evidence and is frustrated by delays in the case.
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The case became part of the nationwide discussion on whether African Americans get a fair shake in the criminal justice system, with many saying the fact that Bland was arrested, jailed, and later died following a minor traffic infraction shows they do not.
