True about the ATM. Never had to wire money. But who knows what kind of hoops they had to jump through to raise, most of their family could’ve been on the ropes that month. I can’t much fault them, like I do the actual guy who put her in there.
I think he assaulted her when he entered the car, and soon threatened her with the taser. She had not assaulted anyone to that time.
It’s not very hard to believe that a “less well off” family a few hundred miles away might have trouble arranging the money transfer.
Between getting together the cash, getting to an ATM to get more, getting to a western union, knowing who to transfer to and how to get the money to the correct person —
It can all take time.
For the better off, of course it’s easier, but I wouldn’t neccessarily impute anything over the failure to get the money to the right place quickly
It’s going to be interesting watching how the family that insists, categorically, that there was never ever any sign of depression in Sandra Bland and that they have never heard of her prior suicide attempts, manages then to twist around and claim negligence because Bland was not put on suicide watch.
Shouldn’t much matter what Sandra or her family said about her state of mind. Why was there a HUGE FUCKING PLASTIC BAG IN A JAIL CELL?
The woman in the cell across from her, in the interview I cited: She was there for 17 days, for unpaid parking tickets.
I guess her family really didn’t care about her.
The bondsman called the mother on Saturday. I am sure he told her where to wire the money and the amount. There are dozens of Western Union offices in Naperville, IL. Open Saturday and Sunday. Any more excuses?
I don’t get how those two positions contradict each other. The second part is what the police knew, or should’ve known, while the first is about what they as a family knew. What’s the problem?
Could be. When you’re in jail on unpaid tickets warrant, the bail could be set to the amount owed. Which, depending on the time elapsed since they were issued, could be quite a sum.
I am impressed that you are so intimately familiar with the finances of this particular “bunch of people” that you can dismiss any possible financial hardship they might have experienced, and imply that they left her there out of a lack of caring.
I have to agree- whatever the family knew or didn’t know, the police are saying that there was a previous attempt. If the police knew, then she should have watched. The two things are not in contradiction.
Well, technically he can decide to arrest them for it until they’ve signed the summons or warrant. So, it is possible. And I have had a Texas cop explain pointedly that they were supposed to take me to jail for the minor violation of driving with expired plates, even if they couldn’t take me to jail for the original violation of going 85 in 55. Despite claims that only persons equipped with XX chromosomes get warnings, I left with only a warning. I’d imagine that there’s at least one person that’s been taken to jail for a minor traffic violation.
I would have thought so, but apparently some states don’t appear to allow the officer to have the person leave the car in a minor traffic stop. I’d imagine that obviates the person in question being cuffed. Texas has no such prohibition.
Yes, I figured the DPS was covered by “any sane”.
In my understanding, she was at least being detained at that point, still with the possibility of arrest. Under the rules I understand, he can cuff her. Her acting out while being in custody was going to land her in jail.
Fact is, I don’t know of any way that you can make being belligerent to a police officer completely safe. I’ve done it without going to jail, but that’s a rare occasion. As long as they’re given any discretion whatsoever, and the suspect is being belligerent, it’s going to be possible for them to eventually bait them into an arrest-able offense. If you don’t have the sense to behave once they’ve started to put you in cuffs, there’s almost no helping you, you’re at least going to jail.
All of the conspiracies offered so far are non-starters until you get some sort of physical evidence that she didn’t hang herself. Her family claims the official one is “defective”, but don’t offer specifics from their own so far.
True love is when a family bails you out in less than 36 hours.
True. I don’t know why they didn’t bail her out. I can’t read their minds.
I am definitely not a mind reader in the league of all those who managed to read the mind of the arresting police officer and found that he was arresting her because of racism or her being “uppity”, or the ones that managed to read his mind and found that he moved her to the grass to be out of the range of the camera and not for another reason, etc. etc.
First of all - it’s not an excuse.
Secondly - if you really can’t conceive that it might take more than just a few hours with someone of limited resources to get it all sorted out reeks of willful ignorance.
If you have to get the money from “somewhere else” that’s two or more people that have to get to an ATM - even assuming they have a few hundred dollars to spare, then they have to get together to pool the money, then they have to get to the western union with the correct details -
And all assuming that mum knows where the western unions are, how to quickly find them, how to get to them easily…
There’s lots that go wrong.
It’s not hard to believe that the time taken to get the money there could stretch.
And it takes two days? While their daughter/sister is in jail? No, if there was a will, there would be a way to do it faster than two days.
And really - do you have any evidence that her family was THAT poor?
No. But we do have evidence the cop was a total asshole.
Well we don’t know that do we? But yes, I could well imagine that it would be easy for the time to stretch to two days or more, it can be surprising sometimes how things don’t go you way when you don’t have money. I could easily construct a timeline that would stretch it past the two days you’re citing.
In any case - does it matter?
Does how quickly the family could raise the money and get it to a bail bondsman make any difference whatsoever to the behaviour of the cop or the jail staff in this instance?
It just seems to be another case of “HER Fault!”, a deflection in a desperate attempt to remove any blame you possibly can from the cop.
I’d like to know the way to get fast money you don’t have and can’t borrow. Will you share it with us, or do we need to send you a SASE and $20.00?
Another thing that may have contributed is the fact it may not bode well to begin your new job (or interview or whatever it was) by saying you can’t make it in because you’re in jail.
Could kinda fuck up your plans.