A man claiming to be a member of the Anonymous hactivist group is in jail in Waco after allegedly making threats to kill McLennan County and Waco police officers. Just days before this altercation, the self-described Sandra Bland activisit called a Texas trooper “You tyrannical f**king pig.”
The mother of Sandra Bland wasted no time in filing a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of herself and Bland’s estate. Bland committed suicide in a Waller County jail after being arrested by a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper for a traffic violation and assaulting a police officer.
In another sign of the anti-GOP rhetoric used by supporters of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, a reverend associated with the family of Sandra Bland called the officer who arrested her the “Donald Trump of traffic cops” in a CNN appearance.
In the wake of the death of Sandra Bland in a Texas county jail, Waller County Sheriff R. Glenn Smith has called for the formation of an outside sheriff’s commission to evaluate jail procedures, jail personnel, and other issues.
One hundred forty people have committed suicide in Texas county jails over the past five years. This disturbing trend was revealed in the wake of the hanging suicide of Sandra Bland in the Waller County jail two weeks ago.
A man incarcerated in the Houston Police Department jail apparently committed suicide by hanging himself. The in-jail suicide is the second in Texas in about as many weeks and comes on the heels of the suicide by hanging of Sandra Bland.
Kim Kardashian offered her opinion of the Sandra Bland story on Twitter Thursday afternoon.
An autopsy on Sandra Bland, the woman found dead in a Texas jail cell three days after a traffic stop, concludes she committed suicide by hanging herself with a plastic trash bag.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that the officer who arrested Sandra Bland was “overly aggressive” and “terrible” and that African-Americans “might” be the victim of over-aggressive cops more than white people in an interview broadcast on Wednesday’s “Anderson Cooper
A dashcam video released by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) reveals the real reason for Sandra Bland’s traffic stop. The DSP dashcam video also shows the calm and polite nature of the trooper prior to Bland’s escalation of the situation that resulted in her arrest.