6 Years Since Sandra Bland…
Hard to believe it has been 6 years since Sandra Bland died.
And so little has changed as far as deaths of Black people by police!
Sandra is not forgotten, nor is her story.
We fight for her and all others lost too soon in this brutal system.
Say her name.
Here is a piece on her case from last year to educate:
It's been five years to this date since Sandra Bland was found hanging in her Walker County, Texas, jail cell. Bland, a 28-year-old Chicago-area woman, was found hanging on July 13, 2015, just three days after she was arrested following a confrontational traffic stop. The African American Policy Forum(AAPF) in 2015 coined the hashtag #SayHerName to draw awareness to Black women and girls who were victims of police injustice.
SB 1849, better known as the Sandra Bland Act, was proposed in 2017 by State Sen. John Whitmire and State Rep. Garnet Coleman. The bill was signed into law on June 15 of that year.
According to HoustonTX.gov, the Sandra Bland Act aims to improve and correct Texas' criminal justice system to make it better for all people and prevent tragedies like Bland's case from happening in the future. Under the law, among other things, officers are to be trained on limiting use of force and understanding implicit bias; county jail are to transport people with mental health and substance abuse issues to treatment; officers are prohibited from searching a person without consent and county jails are ordered to install electronic sensors or cameras to better monitor inmates…
The Houston Chronicle reported in 2019 that Bland's death still has a strong impact on the City of Prairie View, where Bland had returned in 2015 after she found work at Prairie View A&M, her alma mater.
Authorities released the dash cam video footage of Bland's arrest a week after the original traffic stop. Bland's own dashcam video of the incident surfaced in 2019, showing, from her perspective, Trooper Brian Encinia trying to pull the her out of her vehicle while aiming his stun gun at her. Attorneys at the time declined to reopen Bland's case when the video was made public.
Some people allege Bland was murdered and already dead when she took her mugshot photo. At the time, USA Today had forensic pathologist Michael Baden examine thephoto. He said he saw no evidence that would indicate Bland is not alive in the mugshot.
Encinia was fired from the department and agreed to never work in law enforcement again.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/amp/It-s-been-five-years-since-Sandra-Bland-was-found-15405236.php
