That much I buy, we’re on the same page, thanks.
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I think you mean “prior to her death”, don’t you? :dubious:
The family has paid for a second autopsy which was conducted on Sunday. When the results of that autopsy are published and also show the cause of death to be suicide, will you acknowledge that the jail wasn’t responsible for her death?
…Since everyone knows that black people dying in police custody * never draw media attention, right?
One presumes she got it out of the garbage can. She was in a single-occupancy holding cell with a partitioned bathroom, not Supermax.
She wasn’t left in jail to rot. Her bail was set and she and her family were trying to raise it. Her bail bondsman was one of the last people to see her alive.
Then why doesn’t everyone in jail for more than two days hang themselves?
Regards,
Shodan
Is that the same family that couldn’t come up with $500 for bail for 3 days?
It’s likely that some people came forward to help pay for it. Way to blame the victim.
So now, in addition to the jail staff, the first responders, IT, the county medical examiner, and internal affairs, the arresting officers were also in on the conspiracy to stalk this woman until she committed a low-level offense so they could fake her suicide to punish her for running a blog (but only after waiting three days and hoping she didn’t lost bail in the meantime).
Does the department do this to everyone who smears them on Facebook, or just the ones with preexisting suicidal tendencies?
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/07/22/3683281/supreme-court-say-sandra-blands-arrest/
This site claims that…
(I offer the excerpt from a notoriously liberal website, with standard liberal cootie protocols. If it is in error, I await correction.)
I leap to the wild presumption that at that time, no arrest was contemplated, as the citation has been filled out and only her signature would be required for her to go on her merry way. Why would the officer fill out a warning citation if an arrest was imminent?
What offense is committed by smoking a tobacco cigarette? What part of “Do you mind putting out your cigarette?” constitutes an order duly issued by a police officer. Where’s the “probable cause” or “reasonable suspicion” that a crime has taken place by the little girl’s “minding” to put her cigarette out. I’m sorry, I don’t believe the Supreme Court upholds officers slinging orders about willy-nilly, “Get on your knees and bark like a dog”.
She’s dead and can’t defend herself anymore, so let’s do some “victim blaming”:
1} The officer was issuing a warning, not a ticket … she should have been thankful and NOT given the officer a rash and a shit … but she did have a right to say everything she said up until the officer told her to get out of the car.
2} “Do you mind putting out your cigarette?” … this would have been a most excellent time to exercise her 5[sup]th[/sup] Amendment rights to keep her mouth shut. In my ancient of years I’ve learned my own mouth betrays me more than any other bodily part.
3} “Get out of the car” … yeah, from this point on, she didn’t act like a good darkie, I have no excuses for her at all from there on out.
I think police officer should be held to a higher standard than civilians … so ultimately fault lays with the officer … and now she’s dead … that’s murder.
So he was preparing to arrest her? For what?
You first. Will results showing otherwise cause you to admit that you’re mistaken?
Suicidal thought or ideation does not translate to suicide attempt. It’s quite common for someone to “be suicidal”–that is, to contemplate suicide or wish to be dead–and not actually attempt to make it happen. Add that to the basic facts of reduced means, reduced opportunity, and increased supervision in prisons and jails, and I think you have an answer.
The suicide rate among incarcerated individuals in the US has dramatically decreased over the past decades, in large part because of greater awareness of suicide risk (and therefore reduced means, reduced opportunity, and greater supervision) in detention facilities. It remains, however, three times higher than in the general population.
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At 14:00 in the arrest video, Sandra Bland can be heard saying “you slammed me… you knocked my head in the ground; I got epilepsy” and the arresting officer can be heard saying several times “good”.
No. It was a real bad cop who behaved unprofessionally and then the system goes into operation to protect everybody around him.
He was on tape getting his story straight with the other officers because he knew he had screwed up. He admitted she didn’t resist arrest so he went with 'assault". He was looking at his lawbook and reading from it. I don’t think he is supposed to be doing all this with the other officers.
Once he has screwed up the system will come in and blame her for all kinds of things to protect itself.
You need to go back and read post 35.
n.b.: That is no way an attempt to excuse the cop, but an attempt to fight the ignorance in your post, specifically the first two sentences.
I did some Googling after Omar Little posted (thanks, Omar), and it was $5000 AFAICT. Unless what was meant was the “10% cash bond” option that I have heard described on TV.
Regards,
Shodan
Exactly. She needed $500 to get out of jail. I know if my sister/daughter/niece was arrested and needed $500 to get out of jail, it would take me significantly less than three days to come up with it.
Texas officials insist there was no editing, just “technical glitches”. I don’t know of any “technical glitches” that can make the same cars appear over and over again, put apparently they are going to release an better video.